According to a report from WikiChip, TSMC’s SRAM Scaling has slowed tremendously. When it comes to brand-new fabrication nodes, we expect them to increase performance, cut down power consumption, and increase transistor density. But while logic circuits have been scaling well with the recent process technologies, SRAM cells have been lagging behind and apparently almost…
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. today officially introduced its N2 (2nm class) manufacturing technology, its first node that will use gate-all-around field-effect transistors (GAAFETs), at its 2022 TSMC Technology Symposium. The new fabrication process will offer a full-now performance and power benefits, but when it comes to transistor density, it will barely impress in 2025 when…
Intel announced the first details of its ‘Intel 4’ process node and shared an image of a Meteor Lake processor’s compute die at the 2022 IEEE VLSI Symposium. Intel claims impressive results with its new ‘Intel 4’ node, including 21.5% higher frequencies at any given clock rate or a 40% power reduction at the same…
The U.S. Department of Defense has inked a deal with Intel for the company to provide commercial foundry services for the Rapid Assured Microelectronics Prototypes – Commercial (RAMP-C) program. Intel Foundry Services (IFS), a new Intel division that offers the company’s chip manufacturing services to chip designers, will work with the Department of Defense to…
Chinese chipmakers and chip designers at present are focused primarily on mature high-volume process technologies in a bid to support local makers of automobiles, consumer electronics, smartphones, and Internet-of-Things. Yet the country officials believe that next year local makers of semiconductors will begin to ramp up fabrication of chips using 14 nm and more advanced…
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. is on track to start risk production of chips using its N4 (4 nm) fabrication technology in the third quarter, according to TSMC and DigiTimes’ sources in the semiconductor supply chain. The new node will enable chipmakers to slightly shrink the N5 design and further optimize power consumption and performance in 2022. (Image…
AMD’s Zen 4 processors haven’t even launched yet, and rumors are already emerging about the chipmaker’s future Zen 5 chips. Given the time frame that we expect for the Zen 5 chips to debut, the information from the leaks makes sense. Nevertheless, we still recommend you approach all rumors with caution. The partial AMD roadmap,…
