ARM and TSMC team up for tinier 20nm Cortex SOCs

Posted by Digg RSS Search for smartphone on July 21, 2010

It's no secret that ARM ideas are powering much of themobile revolution these days, but the company doesn't print its own systems-on-a-chip, that duty gets outsourced to silicon foundries -- like TSMC, who just got all buddy-buddy with the firm to transition future smartphone chips to the 28nm and obscenely tiny 20nm high-k metal gate processes.

Global Foundries to make 28 nm ARM Cortex A9 processor

Posted by Technorati Search for: iPhone 3G on October 7, 2009

A lot of you have heard of Intel, they do have over 80% of today’s processor market share, but does anymore remember AMD? Advanced Micro Devices, based in Texas, was losing money, a lot of money, and they decided to spin off their factories into a separate company, which was then pumped full of cash from the Middle East, called Global Foundries. AMD today just designs chips; they make blueprints for what they want, which then get turned over to Global Foundries who makes processors. Now that we’