Apple A12 bionic 7nm detailed
6-core CPU 4-core GPU and a lot of AI
Apple’s A12 Bionic is the name of the most important chip inside the iPhone Xs and Xs Max and Xr detailed here. Make no mistake, this is the first to ship 7nm but not the first to sample or be announced, it is actually the third. As believers in the Apple religion don’t care about features unless they have it in their beloved iPhones, they don’t care about the rest of the world.
Apple A12 Bionic chip is third 7nm for phones
Announced, but first to ship
Let's get one thing straight right from the start. Apple's iPhone Xs next generation A12 Bionic SoC has been claimed by Apple’s Phil Schiller to be the first on the market. Well, it is the third, as Qualcomm and Huawei have already announced that they sampled or in production of their 7nm Phone SoCs.
AMD CTO discusses 7nm EPYC and Vega 7nm
Both TSMC don’t worry about GloFo
The news that GlobalFoundries is walking away from 7nm manufacturing brought a lot of uncertainty to AMD’s roadmap and Mark Papermaster the CTO of the company has just posted a blog comforting investors and assuring customers that both CPU and GPU designs at 7nm are in safe hands at TSMC.
TSMC hit by virus
Fab plants infected
TSMC has warned that several of its fabrication plants suffered virus infections on 3 August disrupting production.
Intel with 14nm still kicking industry’s butt
Financial community got it wrong
After Intel announced that it had to delay its 10nm production to 2019, financial analysts around the world reacted with negative stock comments and valuation. Most of them got things wrong. Intel with its $17 billion highest ever revenue showed magnificent growth in the data center and it made that $17 billion without 10nm.
TSMC talks about 5nm plans
Will invest $25 billion
TSMC has said it expects to invest $25 billion in 5-nanometer node technology.
TSMC confirms the reign of Liu and Wei
Replacing Morris Chang with two heads
TSMC has announced Mark Liu (right), currently co-CEO and president of the pure play foundry, has been promoted to chairman effective immediately. CC Wei (left), the other co-CEO and president of TSMC, has been named as CEO and vice chairman of TSMC.
Wafer price rises hit foundry firms
Massive demand for chips
The price of silicon wafers is set to rise by as much as 20 percent this year because of increasing demand from the automotive and other sectors.
TSMC starts work on Apple's A12
7nm
The dark satanic rumour mill has started a hell on earth yarn claiming that TSMC has started work on Apple's custom built Apple A12 CPU built on a 7-nm process.
TSMC to post record profits
Despite a downturn in Apple sales
Despite the fact that Apple lost sales on its over-priced iPhone X, its number one partner TSMC is rumoured to be about to score record profits in 2018.