Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC)(TPE: 2330) said on Dec. 24 that the company has no intention to establish any 12-inch wafer plant in China for now.

TSMC said that the company has no such plans at the moment when approached for a confirmation, regarding a newspaper story from Economic Daily News that reported on Dec. 22, citing the world’s largest contract chip maker is planning to launch a 12-inch silicon wafer plant in China soon.

On the front page story, the Economic Daily News reported that TSMC has listed as an option for building the 12-inch wafer plant in China for the first time, and the plant can be launched as soon as 2016.

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Break point is achieved - it's all downhill for 65nm from now on

While the world is waiting on AMD’s Shanghai and Deneb, Intel’s 45nm Core and Xeon processors overtook 65nm ones and the company decided to phase out or EOL (End Of Life) no less than 31 different 65nm processors.
Intel claims the company has achieved break point between 45nm and 65 and that majority (roughly 60%) of CPUs in Q4 will be manufactured using 45nm process.
Given that processors like Core 2 Duo E8500 overclock to 4-4.2 GHz using tiny stock cooler, there is clear headroom for next-generation of its CPUs, codenamed Nehalem. I had the opportunity to test the Nehalem setup and all that I can say is 45nm process and Intel engineers rock. To have stable 4 GHz+ operations on air was something I could not even dream of at the time of NetBust CPUs.
But the tides have turned, and now Intel’s 45nm processors are the way to go for full performance. You can read more about phased out processors at my ex-post, TG Daily.

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