There's a new company looking to establish a 2nm logic process, problems for an analogue processor pioneer, PTSL buying ThinkMEMS, the question of why Taiwan is so good at chip manufacturing and TSMC planning a 1nm fab.
24 years ago I went to Taiwan to try and find out why its foundry industry - then only 11 years old - had taken off so well. The year before my trip, in
Congratulations Hsinchu
This week marked a significant anniversary in the semiconductor industry – the establishment of the Hsinchu Science Park.
This week marked a significant anniversary in the semiconductor industry – the establishment of the Hsinchu Science Park.
40 years ago this week the Science Park was set up by the Taiwan government.
I used to traipse round the companies in the early days – the DRAM manufacturer Vitelic, the SRAM maker Mosel, the design house Holtek, the consumer IC company Hualon Microelectronics, UMC in the days it made memories and processors before becoming a foundry, the DRAM developer Etron Technology and, later, Winbond, Macronix and Powerchip..