Tagged: 40 nm

NVIDIA’s Chen Calls for Zero Via Defects

NVIDIA’s Chen Calls for Zero Via Defects

NVIDIA needs zero defects from its foundry partners, particularly in the vias on its leading-edge graphics processors, said John Chen, vice president of technology and foundry operations at the GPU powerhouse. With 3.2 billion...

ATi 5870/5850 Release Almost Upon Us

ATi 5870/5850 Release Almost Upon Us

In a matter of hours the NDA will lift for ATi’s next generation 40 nm DX11 GPUs, but before it does, here’s some information to tide you over. Here is a thread that contains a...

TSMC’s 40 nm yields dramatically improve

TSMC’s 40 nm yields dramatically improve

The issue of low 40 nm yields at TSMC has been a hot topic of late, especially with ATi’s 4770 parts being quite hard to get, and also because of nVidia’s quiet introduction of...