For about two years, there has been a shortage of various chips on the market, because of which many industries and a huge number of companies have suffered. But as it turns out, a shortage can lead to… an overabundance of chips. TSMC unexpectedly announced that they had an excessive...
Nvidia wants to revise its orders for TSMC. The source says that Nvidia is facing a glut in the market for graphics cards, which is why it wants to reduce the volume of orders for new GPUs for GeForce RTX 40 adapters. Nvidia’s problem is shaping up on several fronts...
Taiwanese company TSMC will increase the average prices of its services from the beginning of 2023. As expected, from January 2023 they will grow by 6%, although it all depends on specific lithographic technologies. Some of them will rise in price more, some less. At the moment, the reasons for...
The United States and Japan, as part of a “bilateral technology partnership,” intend to launch the production of 2-nanometer chips by 2025 in order to compete with TSMC and prevent this company from dominating the market. Both countries intend to cooperate in this matter at all stages – from research...
Well-known analyst Ming-Chi Kuo said that the Chinese company TSMC will not produce processors using 3- and 4-nm technology until 2023. For the current year, the production of chips only on 5-nm technology has been announced, as before. It is TSMC that makes processors for the iPhone, so you can...
TSMC is the largest chipmaker in the world, and Apple is its biggest customer. DigiTimes reports that TSMC will supply more than $17.07 billion worth of chips to Apple in 2022. This is 23% more than in 2021, when TSMC shipped $13.84 billion worth of products to Apple. Deliveries of...
Top 10 semiconductor contract manufacturers reached $29.55 billion in Q4 2021 revenue, according to TrendForce. This is an 8.3% increase compared to the third quarter and a new record. Note that the record values are recorded for the tenth quarter in a row. Analysts say one of the factors driving...
Recently, in some areas of Taiwan, where the production of semiconductor products, there was a power outage caused by an earthquake. The unexpected drop in electricity generation led to power outages and power outages lasting about 90 minutes, according to local sources. At the household level, such interruptions may seem...
TSMC is working on several 3nm process technologies. At least the N3, N3B and N3E variants are currently in development. Production using the N3 process is scheduled for 2023, while the N3E node was originally planned for 2024, but now it looks like it will be ready ahead of schedule....
The source claims that TSMC has encountered problems in the development of the 3-nanometer process technology. Although the contract manufacturer itself recently announced that mass production will begin in the second quarter of 2022, according to unofficial information, the yield rate is too low for mass production. AMD is already...
Citing data from the supply chain, the source claims that TSMC pushed back Samsung and received all orders for 5G RF chips for next-generation Apple smartphones, which are expected to be released at the end of the year. As stated, the chips used for cellular connectivity will be upgraded to...
Nvidia has to spend billions of dollars to book TSMC manufacturing facilities. Previously, it was reported that Nvidia had already paid about $5 billion, but now it is reported that in the last quarter alone, the company spent $9 billion on stock purchases and an advance payment to TSMC! Nvidia...
TSMC Board of Directors met this week. The Council approved the report for 2021. The world’s largest semiconductor contract manufacturer had consolidated revenues of $59.7 billion and net income of $22.5 billion. The Board of Directors also approved the distribution of cash dividends to shareholders and bonuses to employees, but...
TSMC has run into trouble trying to build a chip manufacturing plant in Arizona, the source said. As you know, its construction began in June last year. According to TSMC’s plans, the $12 billion venture is due to begin mass production of 5nm products in early 2024. However, these plans...
Samsung’s foundry business could overtake TSMC by the end of this decade. Samsung Electronics recently announced that its wafer manufacturing plant now serves more than 100 customers, the source said. Based on current conditions, the wafer market looks to be just as hot in 2022 as it was in 2021....
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC) has received permission from the Taiwanese government to build a chip manufacturing plant in Japan. This is stated in the statement of the Investment Commission of the Ministry of Economy, which approved the relevant investments. “The technology that will be used in the new TSMC...