News tagged with microchip manufacturing

Taiwan Semiconductor profits up nearly 25%

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co, the world's leading contract microchip maker, said Thursday its profits in the three months to December rose nearly 25 percent on the back of strong demand.

Technology / Business

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Chip provides its own power

Microchips that 'harvest' the energy they need from their own surroundings, without depending on batteries or mains electricity. That will be possible now that Dutch researchers from the University of Twente's ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Dec 14, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Taiwan's Inventec to invest $95 million in solar cell

Inventec Corp., a leading Taiwanese contract notebook computer maker, said on Wednesday it will invest at least 3 billion Taiwan dollars (95 million US) to set up a solar cell unit.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Sep 29, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Taiwan's TSMC to invest over $9 billion in plant

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., the world's largest contract microchip maker, said Friday it would invest more than nine billion US dollars building a new plant on the island.

Technology / Semiconductors

created Jul 16, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Taiwan Semiconductor's monthly revenues hit all-time high

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co said Monday its sales in April hit a record high of 32.7 billion Taiwan dollars (one billion US dollars).

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created May 10, 2010 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Taiwan Semiconductor invests in energy-saving technology

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Thursday broke ground on a light-emitting diode plant that marks one of the company's most ambitious forays into energy-saving technologies.

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created Mar 25, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Taiwan Semiconductor profits soar

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co said Thursday net profits in the three months to December more than doubled from a year earlier due to strong demand for computer application chips.

Technology / Semiconductors

created Jan 28, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

A new kind of micro-mobility: Moving tiny particles using magnetic fields (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new microscopic system devised by researchers in MIT's Department of Materials Science and Engineering could provide a novel method for moving tiny objects inside a microfluidic chip, and ...

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 14, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

China chip maker to pay $200 mln to settle TSMC claims

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC) said Tuesday China's top chip maker will pay it 200 million US dollars cash after they settled a long-running dispute over alleged theft of trade secrets.

Technology / Business

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

New method could lead to narrower chip patterns

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at MIT have found a novel method for etching extremely narrow lines on a microchip, using a material that can be switched from transparent to opaque, and vice versa, just by exposing it to certain ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Apr 10, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (8) | comments 5