40nm graphics chip battle heats up

Chip foundry TSMC says it has fixed its new 40nm process line so that yield rates to deliver quality on a par with its 65nm node process. Mark Liu, Senior VP of Operations at TSMC made the claim as TSMC opened up a new chip shop yesterday. According to a report at Digitimes, Liu said yields had be adversely affected by chamber-matching problems which have now been resolved. TSMC's Fab 12, Phase 5 scheme is preparing to operate a 28nm process. Both AMD and Nvidia are...