Apple’s Rivals See 5G as ‘Golden Opportunity’ to Beat iPhone
posted on April 15, 2019 16:05
Now that the first 5G devices are hitting the U.S. market, Apple Inc. is under more pressure to start readying a comparable iPhone — or watch its dominance come under attack.
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3D NAND Metrology Challenges Growing
posted on April 15, 2019 16:04
3D NAND vendors face several challenges to scale their devices to the next level, but one manufacturing technology stands out as much more difficult at each turn—metrology.
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ASML says damage from corporate theft in U.S. was limited
posted on April 15, 2019 16:03
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Dutch semiconductor equipment manufacturing company ASML Holding NV on Thursday confirmed it had been the victim of corporate espionage but downplayed the impact on its business.
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Low Power Meets Variability At 7/5nm
posted on April 15, 2019 16:02
Power-related issues are beginning to clash with process variation at 7/5nm, making timing closure more difficult and resulting in re-spins caused by unexpected errors and poor functional yield.
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Intel and AMD may never make a CPU we can fully trust, but others might
posted on April 15, 2019 16:01
Remember the Spectre and Meltdown security exploits from last year? Intel and AMD really hopes you don’t. Despite what they want you to believe, these speculative execution exploits aren’t going away, at least not with the solutions proposed so far.
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Power Budgets At 3nm And Beyond
posted on March 20, 2019 12:05
There is high confidence that digital logic will continue to shrink at least to 3nm, and possibly down to 1.5nm. Each of those will require significant changes in how design teams approach power.
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How quantum computers work
posted on March 20, 2019 12:04
Quantum computing promises immense computational power beyond the fastest supercomputer available today.
Scientists hope to harness this power to solve problems that are difficult for traditional digital computers, like simulating molecules and proteins to create new materials and drugs, or crunching big data sets to supercharge artificial intelligence.
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Samsung starts mass producing DRAM chip for foldable smartphones
posted on March 20, 2019 12:03
Samsung Electronics said March 14 that it has begun mass producing the world’s highest-capacity mobile DRAM chip tailored for premium mobile devices, such as foldable smartphones.
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AI: Where’s The Money?
posted on March 20, 2019 12:02
A one-time technology outcast, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has come a long way. Now there’s groundswell of interest and investments in products and technologies to deliver high performance visual recognition, matching or besting human skills.
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New EUV Source Can Aid Next-Gen Photolithography
posted on March 20, 2019 12:01
Extreme ultraviolet photolithography, a potential savior of Moore’s Law, has been a long time coming. A dozen years ago, roadmaps called for EUV to arrive in 2011. Not until last year did it finally get up and running.
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