Nvidia Pascal GPU has 17 billion transistors
Published in Graphics


Exclusive: Pascal has a Killer performance

Pascal technology will have as many as 17 billion transistors under the bonnet, Fuzilla can exclusively reveal. 

AMD tapes out FinFET
Published in PC Hardware
Wednesday, 22 July 2015 13:59

AMD tapes out FinFET


Or tapedon fins

AMD has taped out its first FinFET chips.

Samsung puts 10nm FinFET in roadmap
Published in PC Hardware
Wednesday, 22 July 2015 13:01

Samsung puts 10nm FinFET in roadmap


Don't jump to TSMC

Samsung has put 10nm FinFET in its roadmap to stop its customers migrating to TSMC.

TSMC moves to 16nm FinFET
Published in PC Hardware
Monday, 20 July 2015 12:46

TSMC moves to 16nm FinFET


Promises an aggressive ramp-up

TSMC president and co-CEO Mark Liu has announced his outfit has begun volume shipment of chips based on its 16-nm FinFET manufacturing process.

Wall Street wakes up to the power of FinFET
Published in PC Hardware

Make it or die

Leading Wall Street analyst JPMorgan has decided that FinFET technology is going to do wonders to the top chip capital equipment companies bottom lines.

Samsung close to 10nm
Published in PC Hardware
Tuesday, 26 May 2015 11:59

Samsung close to 10nm


Production nearly ready

Samsung told a company event in the UK that it was nearly ready to begin producing mobile chips using its 10nm manufacturing process.

AMD testing FinFET chips
Published in Graphics
Thursday, 07 May 2015 10:38

AMD testing FinFET chips


GPU and CPU 
Production in 2016 

When AMD's Fiji GPU launches shortly after Computex and before the end of Q2 2015, we should see a bit more details regarding AMD's FinFET chips.

AMD's Greenland gets FinFET
Published in Graphics
Thursday, 07 May 2015 10:38

AMD's Greenland gets FinFET


Will be ready by 2016

Greenland, which will succeed the soon to be launched Fiji GPU, will be served up with FinFET technology next year. 

Zen is 40 percent faster than Excavator
Published in PC Hardware
Wednesday, 06 May 2015 21:04

Zen is 40 percent faster than Excavator


2016, FinFET 14nm product

AMD is in the middle of the financial conference call and update where Lisa Su, Mark Papermaster and a few others are talking about AMD between now and 2017. 

Samsung Exynos 7420 14nm, a closer look
Published in Mobiles
Tuesday, 03 March 2015 08:49

Samsung Exynos 7420 14nm, a closer look


64-bit, big.LITTLE Cortex-A57 at 2.1GGHz, A53 at 1.5GHz

Samsung had a rather short press conference, not talking that much about what is inside its new flagship Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge phones, at least not in terms of silicon.