TSMC was planning on using 450mm wafers in 2015, according to some media reports. “The 450mm wafer has been pushed back quite a few times. There may have been an earlier schedule,” Kramer said.

If a 450mm wafer packs 2.5x the processors of a 300mm wafer, the cost-per-processor is far lower if and only if Intel can ship every single chip. If it can't, then the cost structure inverts.

By 2015-16, Intel Corp , Globalfoundries Inc., Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. will have 450mm wafer fabs constructed and equipment installed.

Multiple members of the G450C -- an organization devoted to researching and commercializing 450mm wafer technology -- have declared their intent to exit the program. 450mm wafers have been on life ...

Intel, Samsung, TSMC to hold hands, jump to new wafer size Intel, Samsung, and TSMC have identified 2012 as the start date for what is … Jon Stokes – May 7, 2008 6:30 am | 0 ...

However, the 450mm wafers on display at SEMICON West were produced using Nikon’s 193 immersion scanner, making it the first of its kind to use conventional lithography tools currently in use for 300mm ...

Dainippon Screen’s 450mm wafer scrubber, single wafer cleaning, as well as millisecond annealing system will be among the equipment set to be available for the G450C, a public-private ...

Aakre added that the chip makers will be able to produce twice as many chips on a 450mm wafer as they can on a 300mm wafer today. In 2001, Intel began an 18-to-24-month move from 200mm wafers to ...

On top of that, we are doing the 450mm transition. That has actually brought up a question. Can you actually do a wafer size transition when you have all of these different scaling transitions we have ...

TSMC, the world's top contract chip maker, confirmed on Tuesday it is aiming to manufacture bigger silicon wafers that could lower the cost of chip production, but said technical difficulties will ...

IMSI exec says the chip industry must invest billions of dollars to make up lost ground on productivity and profitability ...

Nikon says its new lithography machine being tested at SUNY Polytechnic Institute on 450-millimeter silicon wafers is set to begin patterning chips. The machine from the Japan-based company was ...