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Tag: TSMC

Apple expected to keep TSMC as its sole chip fab at least through 2020

Thursday, August 23, 2018 11:01 amThursday, August 23, 20186 Comments

Apple is likely to keep TSMC as its sole supplier of application processors for at least two years…

TSMC seen meeting Apple’s chip orders even as ‘WannaCry’ variant dings output

Tuesday, August 7, 2018 8:30 am5 Comments

Taiwan chipmaker TSMC, reeling from a computer virus that shut down several plants over the weekend…

Apple chip fabricator TSMC says a number of fab tools infected by computer virus

Saturday, August 4, 2018 10:17 am22 Comments

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Ltd, the world’s largest contract chipmaker…

Apple is taking us through the looking glass with ARKit 2

Friday, June 29, 2018 12:02 pmFriday, June 29, 20182 Comments

One day, Augmented Reality (AR) will live in our glasses or contact lenses, in the photons hacked on their way to our visual receptors, or embedded right into our brains…

TSMC dominance in 7nm process enhanced with InFO package as Samsung scrambles to catch up

Monday, June 25, 2018 2:32 pmMonday, June 25, 20186 Comments

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) is enjoying a sweeping dominance in the 7nm process space…

Apple’s future-gen A13 SoC likely to remain 7nm

Friday, June 22, 2018 3:01 pmFriday, June 22, 201810 Comments

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has started commercial production of chips built using…

Apple supplier invests $25 billion in future A-series chips

Thursday, June 21, 2018 4:01 pmThursday, June 21, 20188 Comments

Apple supplier TSMC will reportedly invest a massive $25 billion in 5 nanometer node technology…

Apple is figuring out what’s next

Wednesday, June 20, 2018 5:03 pmWednesday, June 20, 201812 Comments

Apple used this year’s WWDC to demonstrate a number of areas in which it is playing offense…

Apple might achieve what Microsoft’s Windows 10 never could

Monday, June 18, 2018 1:01 pmMonday, June 18, 201826 Comments

When Windows 10 was first revealed back in 2014, I was naturally interested in its new features…

Mobile CPU benchmarks show Apple two years ahead of the competition

Friday, June 1, 2018 10:27 amFriday, June 1, 201812 Comments

ARM has unveiled its latest high-end mobile CPU…

Next-gen iPhone will put an even bigger performance gap between Apple and the Android also-rans

Thursday, May 24, 2018 1:12 pm6 Comments

Apple continues to leap ahead the industry in mobile processor design…

iPhone is going to destroy every Android phone yet again with Apple’s A12 SoC

Thursday, May 24, 2018 9:59 am13 Comments

The A11 Bionic processor that powers Apple’s iPhone X, iPhone 8 Plus, and iPhone 8 indeed outperforms every other smartphone that’s currently available…

Apple’s next-gen 7nm A12 chips go into production

Wednesday, May 23, 2018 9:28 amWednesday, May 23, 20188 Comments

Apple’s manufacturing partner TSMC has started mass production of Apple’s next-generation processors…

Gene Munster: Apple will release Apple Glasses late in 2021

Thursday, May 17, 2018 2:56 pmThursday, May 17, 20187 Comments

AR wearables a great fit for Apple…

How AR and VR will revolutionize the classroom

Thursday, May 10, 2018 1:32 pmThursday, May 10, 20184 Comments

With our business and personal lives moving to the digital environment…

Apple will have an AR/VR headset for 2020 release, source says

Friday, April 27, 2018 3:01 pmFriday, April 27, 201824 Comments

Apple CEO Tim Cook has nothing but praise for augmented reality…

Apple patent application reveals work on eye-tracking technology for VR and AR headsets

Friday, April 27, 2018 8:30 amFriday, April 27, 20184 Comments

Apple has considered ways to detect the eye movements of the wearer of a head-mounted display…

TSMC ramps up production of Apple’s next-gen 7nm A12 SoC

Monday, April 23, 2018 12:19 pm10 Comments

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) is likely to score record profits for 2018 as the company…

Apple, Nvidia shares fall after TSMC gives weak guidance

Thursday, April 19, 2018 8:55 amThursday, April 19, 201812 Comments

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSMC) on Thursday said its revenue forecast range…

Why a curved-screen iPhone is a great idea

Friday, April 6, 2018 5:09 pmFriday, April 6, 201875 Comments

Apple is working on – or at least considering – a curved screen iPhone…

Apple reportedly prepping game-changing technologies and features for future iPhones

Friday, April 6, 2018 4:02 pmFriday, April 6, 201815 Comments

As the smartphone industry struggles to deliver positive volume growth, Apple appears more willing than ever…

PlayNitride to setup a $17 million micro-LED production facility, reportedly in talks with Apple

Thursday, April 5, 2018 10:28 amMonday, July 22, 20192 Comments

PlayNitride aims to produce micro LEDs, display modules and panels at its new facility at Hsinchu…

Apple prepping Micro-LED displays for Apple Watch and Smartglasses for 2019, sources say

Tuesday, April 3, 2018 10:30 amTuesday, April 3, 2018No Comments

Apple is now gearing up efforts to develop micro LED panels for both small-size and large-size applications…

Samsung’s Galaxy S9 first weekend sales in South Korea get lukewarm reception

Tuesday, March 20, 2018 9:56 am2 Comments

South Korean consumers are not that enthusiastic about the Samsung Galaxy S9 and Galaxy S9 Plus…

Samsung Galaxy S9 thoroughly beaten by Apple’s iPhone X/8/8 Plus in early benchmarks

Thursday, March 1, 2018 8:59 amThursday, March 1, 20183 Comments

In our testing we were able to confirm the GeekBench 4 scores already leaked…

Apple chip maker TSMC plans 5nm chips for 2020, and 3nm in 2022

Friday, January 26, 2018 5:35 pmFriday, January 26, 201828 Comments

Apple’s chip manufacturer TSMC today broke ground on its first 5-nanometer fabrication…

Benchmark contest: Apple’s iPhone X vs. MacBook Pro

Monday, November 6, 2017 3:44 pmMonday, November 6, 201716 Comments

We were amazed when the iPad Pro 2nd Gen was compared to the fastest 2017 MacBook Pro 13-inch…

CEO of Apple Supplier TSMC says Moore’s Law is no longer valid

Wednesday, October 25, 2017 8:56 am13 Comments

Moore’s Law has become invalid for a while, as the time needed for the transistor density…

The A11 Bionic probably isn’t as good as Apple initially hoped

Wednesday, October 18, 2017 5:01 pmFriday, November 10, 201722 Comments

Apple’s custom-designed A11 Bionic chip is an impressive chip, offering solid improvements in CPU and graphics performance…

The pros and cons of Apple A-Series MacBooks

Friday, September 29, 2017 5:00 pmFriday, September 29, 201731 Comments

Apple wants, and has the resources, to control the design of all of the important semiconductors in its products…

Apple, a semiconductor superpower in the making, looks to build their own ARM-based processors for Macs

Friday, September 29, 2017 11:00 amFriday, September 29, 201723 Comments

Apple is expanding efforts to develop proprietary semiconductors to better compete in artificial intelligence…

Ahead of Apple’s seminal ‘iPhone Pro,’ chip demand from the wannabe phone makers slows

Monday, July 24, 2017 10:56 amMonday, July 24, 20176 Comments

Chip suppliers engaged in Apple’s supply chain started to see orders pick up in June…

Apple’s secret new iPhone just made this 86-year-old a billionaire

Thursday, July 13, 2017 1:28 pmThursday, July 13, 20178 Comments

The chairman of the world’s largest contract chipmaker has become a billionaire thanks to expected demand…

TSMC has begun 10nm Apple A11 chip production for iPhone 8 series

Thursday, May 11, 2017 9:02 amThursday, May 11, 20173 Comments

TSMC has begun 10nm chip production for Apple’s next-generation iPhone 8 series…

Apple’s new $329 iPad is a bit of bad news for this company

Tuesday, March 28, 2017 3:01 pmTuesday, March 28, 20175 Comments

Apple’s recently announced low-cost iPad (known simply as the iPad) is an interesting device…

6 things you need to know about Apple’s A11 processor

Monday, March 27, 2017 10:18 pm29 Comments

TSMC will begin churning out Apple’s next generation A11-series processor…

TSMC to begin volume production of Apple’s A11 chips in April

Monday, March 27, 2017 10:28 amMonday, March 27, 20174 Comments

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) will begin volume production of Apple’s A11 chips…

U.S. suitors get major advantage as Japan to vet bidders in Toshiba chip sale over national security risks

Friday, March 10, 2017 10:27 amFriday, March 10, 20171 Comment

The Japanese government, fretting over the future of Toshiba Corp’s flagship memory chips unit…

Apple’s iPhone 8 build plans changes TSMC’s schedule

Friday, March 3, 2017 12:01 pmFriday, March 3, 20172 Comments

We are reducing our June quarter earnings-per-share estimate for Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing…

TSMC yield issues could hinder launch of Apple’s next-gen iPads

Friday, December 23, 2016 3:25 pmFriday, December 23, 201613 Comments

Both Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company’s and Samsung’s 10nm processes have reached…

TSMC to ramp production of Apple’s next-gen A11 processor in April

Saturday, December 17, 2016 11:15 am12 Comments

Analysts with BlueFin Research Partners say that Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company…

Apple’s shift to TMSC may force Samsung to split chip design, fabrication businesses

Tuesday, December 13, 2016 4:01 pmTuesday, December 13, 201617 Comments

Samsung is reportedly looking at splitting off its chip fabrication business…

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