Industry News (2012/06/11)
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ST develops 28-nm, 20-nm FDSOI with GlobalFoundries
Published:2012/6/11 21:32:00 Author:Ecco
Chip vendor STMicroelectronics NV has announced that it can produce the devices using 28-nm and 20-nm fully depleted silicon-on-insulator (FDSOI) technology by signing up with GlobalFoundries. As a part of the same deal, ST is opening up the... (View)
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HDD prices will remain above pre-disaster levels until 2014
Published:2012/6/11 4:47:00 Author:Ecco
Market research firm IHS iSuppli indicates that the average selling prices (ASPs) of hard disk drives (HDDs) may remain higher level in the rest of this year because of rampant flooding in Thailand last year. And the HDD ASPs are expected to remain inflated until 2014. HDD production is rapidly reco... (View)
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Foundries sales were in diverging trends in May
Published:2012/6/11 3:00:00 Author:Ecco
Until May, Foundry Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd has strong sequential and annual sales growth in May while smaller rival United Microelectronics Corp. has a year-on-year decline in sales. According to TSMC, its net sales for May 2012 on an unconsolidated basis were NT$43.62 billion (about $1.48 billion), an increase of ... (View)
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