TSMC Company definitely enlarges both the assortment of semiconductor output and list of permanent customers. Even Intel company intended to charge TSMC by the release of solutions with the high integration degree, which use atom architecture.
As reports associate with the reference to sources among the suppliers of equipment, TSMC at present enlarges production capacities, in order to accept more orders for the production of 40 nm processors. It is assumed that TSMC will master the release not only of dual core processors VIA nano, but also will start to release in the first quarter 2011 the hybrid processors AMD ontario, intended for mobile devices and plane-table computers.
Let us note that in this month AMD representatives already refuted rumors about the forthcoming changes in the arrangement structure of orders for the release of processors. According to the company colleagues, by video chip and chipset release will be occupied TSMC, and Globalfoundries will release all types of AMD processors.
Associate simultaneously reports about the appearance of scarcity of the six-core processors phenom II X6. The delay of announcement of four core processor phenom II X4 960T (Zosma) is caused exactly by high demand for the six-core crystals.