TSMC sees increased demand for 28nm, but are unable to deliver

For just a month ago started TSMC begin mass production of 28nm, and despite the unstable market environment continues orders to TSMC to lie down on high. TSMC has never seen such a high demand for a new manufacturing process and suffers from capacity problems.

TSMC is currently the only one who can ship the chips on 28nm to customers, and it's been a record number of people who stood in line to the new technology. In normal circumstances, it was AMD (ATI) and NVIDIA has been on the capacity of a new manufacturing techniques, along with few smaller companies. Among the clients who want the technology we have Altera, AMD, NVIDIA, Qualcomm and Xilinx, while Broadcom, LSI Logic and Texas Instruments are potential customers.

But according to earlier data from May so there would be 89 different circuit designs for the new manufacturing technology, a figure that exceeded the total number of designs at 40nm and we can only assume that the figure is even higher today. TSMC will also have to increase the price of the new technology because of the high demand. 28nm technology will, on this account for 2 percent of its total revenues in 2011, unlike the 1 percent previously predicted.

From the time an order entered in TSMC will take a full six months before they get their wafers delivered, this can be compared to that it often takes about two months to produce a wafer. The company currently has capacity to produce 20,000 wafers per month, but during the first quarter of next year, opens the new Fab 15th It will be the company's third plant producing 12-inch wafers and it is then expected to have a capacity of 100,000 wafers a month.

This also confirms reports that the availability of 28nm is low or nonexistent before year end. It is rumored that AMD will launch a new series of mobile graphics cards around December 9 , but it has also previously talked about it just be an announcement of things to come. In any case, it sounds like good times for TSMC and semiconductor industry, although the world economy in general do not seem to stabilize for a while yet.

Socket 775 and 65nm continues to be shipped late in 2012

While we eagerly await the latest processors from Intel on their 22nm technology, they have no hurry to let the past die with dignity. Their old LGA 775 socket and several associated processors will ship until late in 2012, including a processor built on 65nm.

LGA 775 socket may be viewed as special for many when Intel made its transition from the not so successful NetBurst architecture, Conroe and Core 2 Duo, which put the company on the map again in both performance and power efficiency. But certain things should be allowed to die out with dignity and this is a clear example of this. Core 2 Duo was launched and was manufactured at 65nm, and since then we have seen the 45nm, 32nm and soon 22nm from the company.

LGA 1156 and LGA 1155 that houses today's Sandy Bridge processors have since been released. Ivy Bridge, which is expected to appear in March-April next year will be built on 22nm and be compatible with LGA 1155th But it has no intention to end the LGA 775th

During the fourth quarter of this year, ending the company shipping the Core 2 Duo E7600 and E7500, but other processors will be shipped well into the next year. Pentium E6800, E6700, E5800 and Celeron E3500 and E3400 will be shipped to the Q3 2012 but this date may be extended. Last out, we have Celeron 430 which are built on 65nm, and has a core clocked at 1.8 GHz with a TDP value of 35W. Although this will be shipped until Q3 2012th

As the top of that, Intel LGA 1156 alive with multiple processors. so there are many generations they stay alive, to ensure that clients and consumers have an upgrade path to climb on. But at the LGA 775, we have hard to see why they still retain, Core 2 Duo was good in its day but has now been replaced by better alternatives.