Entries for October 2013
The Brave New World Of FinFETs
posted on October 16, 2013 10:05
SoCs using 16nm and 14nm finFETs are expected to begin rolling out next year using a 20nm back-end-of-line process. While the initial performance and power numbers are looking very promising, the challenges of designing and building these complex chips are daunting—and there are more problems on the way.
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Future phones and laptops could have speakers made of carbon nanotubes
posted on October 16, 2013 10:04
For the past year, researchers at Tsinghua University in Beijing have been listening to music on a laptop through a pair of unusual earphones. Although the earphones look ordinary, they do not contain the typical metal coil speaker found in most earphones, but rather a chip made of many string-like carbon nanotube (CNT) yarns with grooves etched in them.
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EUV Still Promising on IMEC's Road Map
posted on October 16, 2013 10:03
The view of extreme ultraviolet lithography (EUV) has always been a bit rosy from this part of the world, where it is being born. So it's no surprise that EUV held a relatively sunny spot in an otherwise fairly detailed and balanced semiconductor road map the IMEC research institute showed at an annual press event here.
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GlobalFoundries will equip factory expansion in the spring
posted on October 16, 2013 10:02
GlobalFoundries Inc. will add extra muscle to its computer-chip business by late spring, when it installs machines on its newly enlarged shop floor at its factory in Saratoga County, NY.
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Samsung launches world's first smartphone with curved screen
posted on October 16, 2013 10:01
Samsung Electronics Co Ltd on Wednesday launched the world's first smartphone with a curved display, a variant of the Galaxy Note which moves the Asian giant a step closer to achieving wearable devices with flexible - even unbreakable - screens.
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Moore’s Law gets very warped in the sub 20nm era
posted on October 08, 2013 11:05
After all the talk of “innovation”, Walden (Wally) Rhines), chairman and CEO of Mentor Graphics, posed many questions about the future of semiconductors in the post 20 nanometre era at IEF2013. He called it the Big Squeeze. Even Gordon Moore reckons that Moore’s Law is at an end. “No exponential is forever,” he said. When asked what he would like his legacy to be, his answer was “anything but Moore’s Law”.
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ASML and Imec launch Advanced Patterning Center or sub-10nm technologies
posted on October 08, 2013 11:04
Today, ASML and imec announced the next major step in their extensive collaboration, with the launch of the Advanced Patterning Center. Together they plan to tackle upcoming scaling challenges due to the chip industry’s move towards single digit nanometer dimensions. The Center will be located at the imec campus in Leuven and is expected to grow to close to 100 engineers over the next couple of years.
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Silicon crunch "around the corner"
posted on October 08, 2013 11:03
Malcolm Penn, CEO of chip analyst Future Horizons, gave his annual rundown on the semiconductor market at the IEF2013 in Dublin, and he had some warnings of what the industry should expect.
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NAND Flash Moves into the Next Dimension, as 3-D Manufacturing Technology Overtakes the Market
posted on October 08, 2013 11:02
With conventional semiconductor manufacturing technology soon to reach its limit in the NAND flash segment, suppliers of these memory chips are set to adopt 3-D production techniques in order to boost the capacity of their devices.
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Powerchip 30nm DRAM production hit by low yield rates
posted on October 08, 2013 11:01
A portion of 30nm DRAM production at Powerchip Technology has been hit by low yield rates, affecting about 7,000-8,000 of the wafers that Kingston Technology has booked, according to industry sources.
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