I'd rather have a bottle in front of me - than a frontal lobotomy"
|
|
|
TSMC claims to have fixed 40nm yield problems
CHIPMAKER TSMC said it has improved yield rates on its 40nm manufacturing process and everything is on a par with the older 65nm process.
According to Digitimes, Mark Liu, senior VP of operations at Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) said at a company event that the chamber matching problems that had blighed yield rates for the last quarter have now been fixed.
He did not say much else, but the low yields have resulted in problems for several of TSMC's customers and could mean that some will have to delay product launches while the chipmaker clears up its backlog.
TSMC opened a new factory building named Phase 5, which is part of the company's Fab 12 located at the Hsinchu Science Park in Taiwan. Once Phase 5 is operational it will be used for volume production of 28nm products in the third quarter of 2010.
The outfit is also planning to build Phase 6 of Fab 12, which mainly will be used as its 22nm production base. Liu said all this building is needed to keep up with demand for chips in the coming quarters. µ
Share this:
Share
How good is the 65 nm process yield?
Rumors are ripe that ATI will to move to Global Foundries for 32/28 nm process ;-D.
Some sorces indicate that ATI will skip 32nm process as in the past they didt it; "Radeon 2900 series (80 nm) to the Radeon 3870 (55 nm) Ati already skipped the 65 nm process". ATI wants to skip 32nm process and move to Global Foundries in H1 2010. All info should be taken with the grains of salt ;-D.
my isn't it a coincidence that this problem has been recified just a few weeks before Nvidia's Fermi silicon goes into volume production.
@techno
Regardless of yields you won't see much of a price difference in ATI's Radeon 5800 Series until after NVidia finally launches a DX11 card. That being said the lower end Radeon 5670s are already in stock and selling for $109 Canadian!
Just wonder how long that improvement will take to filter down to availability on retailers shelves and hopefully a price reduction in ATi's 5000 series?