Items tagged with 450mm

by Joel Hruska - Tue, Aug 07, 2012

TSMC Copies Intel, Announces Own Investment In Next-Gen Foundry Supplier

Last month, Intel announced a deal in which it would invest $4.1B in the photolithography company ASML in exchange for a 15% ownership stake in the company. Now, TSMC has followed suit with its own announcement. The Taiwanese foundry hinted in its last conference call that it might take this step, so it's not a... Read more...

by Daniel A. Begun - Wed, May 07, 2008

Chip Makers to Collaborate on 450mm Transition

Intel, Samsung, and TSMC--big players in the fabrication of semiconductors--have announced that they will be collaborating in order to target an industry-wide transition to 450mm wafers starting in the year 2012. Most semiconductors today are manufactured on 300mm wafers--a transition that started in 2001--which was 10 years after the transition... Read more...