Slower Metal Bogs Down SoC Performance
posted on October 18, 2020 04:05
Metal interconnect delays are rising, offsetting some of the gains from faster transistors at each successive process node.
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IFTLE 464: TSMC’s Family of Packaging Technologies Create 3D Fabric
posted on October 18, 2020 04:04
TSMC recently held its 26th annual Technology Symposium, so let’s take a look at the highlights of their presentations focusing on their advanced packaging activities featuring a new concept called 3D fabric.
Process Control and Inspection for High-Value Advanced Packages: It’s Complicated
posted on October 18, 2020 04:03
In September of 2018, I spoke with KLA’s Stephen Hiebert and Pieter Vandewalle about the changing advanced packaging landscape, and the need for better process control that inspired the company’s foray into the advanced packaging space.
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TSMC raises revenue forecast, citing robust 5G demand
posted on October 18, 2020 04:02
While next-generation smartphones feature more semiconductors and vendors increase their inventory, the chipmaker remains focused on production in Taiwan.
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China’s semiconductor quest is likely to fail, leaving rapprochement with US the only way out
posted on October 18, 2020 04:01
One of the biggest battles in the ongoing US China tech war is over semiconductors – the enabling technology behind everything from smartphones to earth-orbiting satellites.
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What the AI Chip Market is All About
posted on August 10, 2020 06:05
Right now, the AI chip market is all about deep learning. Deep learning (DL) is the most successful of machine learning paradigms at making AI applications useful in the real world.
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Huawei running out of phone chips
posted on August 10, 2020 06:04
Chinese tech giant Huawei Technologies Co (華為) is running out of processor chips to make smartphones due to US sanctions and would be forced to stop production of its own most advanced chips, a company executive has said, in a sign of growing damage to Huawei’s business from US pressure.
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Applied Materials Says New Tool Breaks Chip Resistance Bottleneck
posted on August 10, 2020 06:03
The regular scaling down in the size of transistors has always had a similar scaling down in the size of the vertical metal contacts that bridge the devices themselves to the wiring that links them up to form logic.
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Combating Counterfeit Chips
posted on August 10, 2020 06:02
The harsh reality is that today, the authenticity of chips is often impossible to guarantee. The counterfeit chip market is sizeable and growing with a worldwide value estimated at $75B in 2019. Those counterfeits are believed to have been integrated into more than $169B of electronic devices.
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SMIC founder says 'optimistic' China can catch up with U.S. in semiconductors
posted on August 10, 2020 06:01
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - The founder of China’s largest chipmaker SMIC said on Tuesday he was “optimistic” China could catch up with the United States in the next generation of semiconductors but that U.S. efforts to contain its technology sector could not be taken “lightly”.
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