According to industry sources, the world's largest contract manufacturer of semiconductor products TSMC is having difficulty meeting demand for 28-nanometer products. The main customers are companies TSMC Qualcomm, AMD and NVIDIA. It is believed that the situation will improve in the third quarter of this year.
For this reason, TSMC is considering the expansion of production . Construction of a new line in the factory Fab 14, which works with 12-inch (300 mm) plates, will begin April 9. Total for the year 2012 the company plans to increase production by 10%.
However, Qualcomm agreed to transfer part of their orders for ARM processors for the company United Microelectronics (UMC), because the volume of products manufactured by TSMC, is not enough for the rapid market of smartphones and tablets.
AMD has introduced the first graphics accelerator based on a 28-nanometer GPU at the end of last year, but shipments family of video cards Radeon HD 7000 is still quite small.
NVIDIA has managed to release two cards based on 28-nanometer GPU Kepler: GeForce GTX 680 desktop PCs and GeForce GT 640M mobile, but, apparently, will also be forced to postpone plans.
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