{"id":9877,"date":"2009-08-01T04:27:22","date_gmt":"2009-08-01T04:27:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/?p=9877"},"modified":"2009-08-01T09:55:35","modified_gmt":"2009-08-01T09:55:35","slug":"tsmc%e2%80%99s-40-nm-yields-dramatically-improve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/tsmc%e2%80%99s-40-nm-yields-dramatically-improve\/","title":{"rendered":"TSMC\u2019s 40 nm yields dramatically improve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The issue of low 40 nm yields at TSMC has been a hot topic of late, especially with ATi\u2019s 4770 parts being quite hard to get, and also because of nVidia\u2019s quiet introduction of desktop 40 nm parts in the OEM sector.<\/p>\n<p>Well there\u2019s good news on the horizon because TSMC\u2019s CEO Morris Chang advises that 40 nm yields are up from 30% fto 60%. He also expects third quarter growth for the company in 2009.<\/p>\n<p>The 40 nm process will become particularly important in the next few months as nVidia and ATi start taking swings at each other with their DX11 heavy-weights. The better the yields, the better the pricing and availability for customers like us.<\/p>\n<p>The full story is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitimes.com\/news\/a20090731PD204.html\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.digitimes.com\/news\/a20090731PD204.html', 'here']);\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: #99ccff;\">Please join us in our <a href=\"http:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/abt\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\">Forums<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #99ccff;\">Follow us on <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/alienbabeltech\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/twitter.com\/alienbabeltech', 'Twitter']);\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #99ccff;\">For the latest updates from ABT, please <a href=\"http:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/?feed=rss2\" target=\"_blank\">join our RSS News Feed<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The issue of low 40 nm yields at TSMC has been a hot topic of late, especially with ATi\u2019s 4770 parts being quite hard to get, and also because of nVidia\u2019s quiet introduction of&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1933,919,73,1936,1291,1935,121,843,1934],"class_list":["post-9877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-40-nm","tag-40nm","tag-ati","tag-chang","tag-dx11","tag-morris","tag-nvidia","tag-tsmc","tag-yield"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9877\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}