29 news & feature articles results for "foundry silicon on insulator"

At 45 nanometers, the silicon-on-insulator foundry services promise chip designs that are faster or use less power, but the technology isn't cheap.

Posted by Brooke Crothers

A new plant in East Fishkill, N.Y., should allow Big Blue to roughly double its chip production capacity. But will it have enough customers?

Posted by John G. Spooner

Company is spinning off its chipmaking operations to a new entity and taking on a greater investment from Mubadala Development. Here are the details.

Posted by Jonathan Skillings

update Big Blue will team with AMD to develop future chip technologies, an alliance that will better insulate AMD from the growing risks of making processors.

Posted by Michael Kanellos

The company unveils the Vector, a tool that can process 12-inch silicon wafers for less than the cost of a comparable tool for 8-inch wafers.

Posted by Ian Fried

The proposed merger of the chip companies would address Globalfoundries' weaknesses in service and in its ability to produce in bulk.

Posted by Vivian Yeo

IBM says it will manufacture power-management chips for Intersil next year, in a continued effort by Big Blue to become a big brother to smaller chipmakers.

Posted by Michael Kanellos

Companies will continue their alliance through 2011 and expand it to include the development of new transistors, among other tech.

Posted by Michael Kanellos

The chip company is not going fabless in the classic sense of the word: a design house without any manufacturing facilities.

Posted by Brooke Crothers

Chipmaker will pay Big Blue nearly $300 million, but move should help in competition with Intel.

Posted by Michael Kanellos