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| 2014-04-16 | GigOptix ASIC expansion addresses designs in lower nodes GigOptix has released an ASIC product series that provide benefits including low production costs and rapid design cycles. |
| 2014-04-22 | FPGAs must shape up to accelerate growth The rocketing ASIC mask-set and NRE costs have not yielded a surge of FPGA designs, but have rather driven engineers to resort to older technology nodes to mitigate the cost issues. Considering this and the standing Moore's Law concern, the FPGA outlook does not appear so bright. |
| 2011-06-02 | Elpida, PTI, UMC join forces for TSV tech The three-way collaboration of Elpida, PTI, and UMC will deliver 3D IC integration technologies including 28nm. |
| 2012-06-28 | Development kit eases RF system design Altera and Texas Instruments have launched a modular RF development kit for prototyping systems based on Altera's 28nm Arria V FPGAs. |
| 2015-02-11 | China wins royalty cuts from Qualcomm China's NDRC called the investigation "antitrust case." But more accurately, it successfully haggled with Qualcomm to get the royalty rate cuts for Chinese handset vendors. |
| 2011-11-15 | Ceramic hard mask to replace titanium nitride? Novellus has developed a new material for sub-22nm patterning that claims to beat TiN in terms of compatibility and deformation. |
| 2014-04-01 | CEO of China's SMIC talks about global expansion EE Times correspondent Junko Yoshida sat down with SMIC CEO Tzu-Yin Chiu in a one-on-one interview that revealed the company's interest to expand globally. |
| 2014-02-12 | ARM, SMIC expands partnership for high-performance SoC designs The collaboration will offer the ARM Artisan physical IP platform for SMIC's 28nm process to deliver high-performance, high-density and low-power technologies for consumer and mobile applications. |
| 2008-10-01 | ARM to work on SoC platform for IBM alliance ARM has agreed to develop a SoC design platform of physical intellectual property at the 32nm and 28nm nodes for the Common Platform technology alliance. |
| 2011-04-11 | Apple, TSMC forge foundry alliance, says analyst While quietly qualifying TSMC as a foundry partner, Apple has reportedly commissioned the chipmaker to produce the A5 dual-core processor and follow-on devices on a foundry basis for its iPad 2. |
| 2014-10-29 | Apple iPad Air 2 doesn't fall far from the tree The 16GB Wi-Fi-only version of the Apple iPad Air 2 sports a bill of materials of $270, based on a preliminary estimate. This compares to the $269 BOM for the tablet's 16GB predecessor. |
| 2012-09-27 | Android tablet wars putting the pressure on Rockchip Rockchip faces stiff competition from multinational chip companies like Samsung Electronics and Taiwanese behemoth MediaTek. |
| 2013-01-10 | AMD to churn out quad-x86 chips for tablet-notebooks Advanced Micro Devices has demonstrated applications and games running on a Kabini-based ultrathin notebook and on a Temash convertible tablet-notebook. |
| 2012-03-07 | AMD ditches Globalfoundries AMD is relinquishing its 14 percent stake at Globalfoundries and will pay the semiconductor foundry $425 million as part of their amended foundry supply agreement. |
| 2011-03-14 | Altera, Xilinx to run neck and neck by 2012, says analyst Keen on penetrating the ASSP and embedded segments, Altera is eyeing a total market of almost $50 billion, more than 10 times the value of the entire programmable logic market. |
| 2012-05-11 | Abu Dhabi chip co struggles to be profitable Mubadala said there can be no assurance that ATIC will be profitable in 2012 or subsequent years, according to the Reuters report. |
| 2011-10-11 | 1.5GHz microprocessor cluster targets SoC design MIPS Technologies and eSilicon's latest 28nm technology combines coherent multiprocessing and superscalar processor core. |
| 2013-02-04 | Xilinx expands 20nm design portfolio The 20nm portfolio builds upon the company's breakthroughs proven at 28nm to provide an extra generation of system performance, lower power and programmable system integration. |
| 2014-05-22 | Two-lane PCIe SSD controller transfers data up to 1GB/s The 88SS1083 controller from Marvell is designed with 28nm low-power process technology, and features SATA Express standard compliance. |
| 2010-04-15 | TSMC skips 22nm, leaps to 20nm half-node Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd announced plans to skip the 22nm "full node" after the 28nm node and move directly to the 20nm "half node." |
| 2012-05-02 | TSMC pulls in 20nm, ups capex to $8.5B TSMC said that it needed to increase capex because of stronger than expected demand for 28nm wafers and because it has decided to "pull in" the creation of a 20nm R&D process line. |
| 2015-11-16 | TSMC invests $65M in EDA startup Tela Innovations provides software that helps with advanced scaling and lithography optimisation, and developed design solutions such as cell libraries for 28nm, 20nm CMOS and FinFET technologies. |
| 2013-04-15 | TSMC FinFET production set in 2013 Company executives detailed the new processes and how they aim to get there and also gave an update on 3D chip stacks and their on-going ramp of today's 28nm process node. |
| 2011-04-07 | TI's new strategy casts doubts on Samsung's foundry ambitions TI has disclosed that for OMAP 5, it may work with a set of foundries that does not include Samsung, stressing that it will rely on Samsung to a "lesser extent" at 45nm and not partner with it at 28nm. |
| 2015-11-11 | Synopsys, GlobalFoundries team up for 22nm FD-SOI sol'n The Synopsys Galaxy Design Platform, enabled for the GlobalFoundries' 22FDX platform, claims to offer FinFET-like performance and energy-efficiency at a cost comparable to 28nm planar technologies. |
| 2013-11-08 | Synopsys reveals DesignWare ARC HS processors Geared for next-generation embedded data and signal processing systems, the 32bit ARC HS34 and HS36 processors deliver 1.9DMIPS/MHz at speeds up to 2.2GHz in typical 28nm silicon. |
| 2015-11-13 | Strong performance allows SMIC to defy chip downturn SMIC, China's largest foundry, said its capacity is fully utilised, and aims to develop a range of specialised versions of its most advanced 28nm process technology for such applications as RF. |
| 2010-04-21 | Stratix FPGAs deliver up to 1.6Tbit/s serial switching Altera Corp.'s 28nm high-end Stratix V FPGAs will offer up to 1.6Tbit/s of serial switching capability, 1.1 million logic elements and 53Mbit embedded memory. |
| 2014-07-28 | Startup rolls 60GHz WiFi sol'n geared for mobile displays The NT4600 28nm chip supports 802.11ad with an initial focus on mobile devices, and claims to top Wilocity's forthcoming Sparrow chip by 50-100mW when displaying 4K video. |
| 2013-02-22 | ST's FDSOI process churns out 3GHz processor engines The 28nm version of STMicroelectronics' process has produced application processor "engines" that are capable of operating at clock frequencies in excess of 3GHz. |
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