Entries for March 2016
Will Directed Self-Assembly Pattern 14Nm Dram?
posted on March 23, 2016 09:05
Will directed self-assembly (DSA) join Extreme Ultraviolet (EUV) Lithography and next-generation multi-patterning techniques to pattern the next memory and logic technologies.
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Where Is Next-Gen Lithography?
posted on March 23, 2016 09:04
Experts at the table, part 1: Ramp up time still in question. Remaining issues include power sources, pellicles, thinner wires, edge placement and cost.
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TSMC Readies 7nm Chip Ecosystem, Infrastructure for 2017
posted on March 23, 2016 09:03
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company came to Silicon Valley on Tuesday for a day of presentations on its latest chip technology. The TSMC Technology Symposium for North America drew more than 1,000 attendees at the San Jose Convention Center.
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Applied Materials eyes expansion in China
posted on March 23, 2016 09:02
Applied Materials Inc, world's largest semiconductor materials engineering solutions provider, is planning to expand in the China market through investments and other projects with a combined value of 4 billion yuan ($616 million) in the next few years, said its President and CEO Gary Dickerson.
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Apple fight could escalate with demand for 'source code'
posted on March 23, 2016 09:01
The latest filing in the legal war between the planet’s most powerful government and its most valuable company gave one indication of how the high-stakes confrontation could escalate even further.
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EUV Resists and Stochastic Processes
posted on March 16, 2016 09:06
In an exclusive interview with Solid State Technology during SPIE-AL this year, imec Advanced Patterning Department Director Greg McIntyre said, “The big encouraging thing at the conference is the progress on EUV.” The event included a plenary presentation by TSMC Nanopatterning Technology Infrastructure Division Director and SPIE Fellow Anthony Yen on “EUV Lithography: From the Very Beginning to the Eve of Manufacturing.”
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MRAM Breakthrough Looms
posted on March 16, 2016 09:05
PORTLAND, Ore.—Everybody in the memory business is trying to build a nonvolatile memory that is as fast as static random access memory (SRAM), as dense as flash and as cheap as read-only-memory (ROM).
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7Nm Lithography Choices
posted on March 16, 2016 09:04
Chipmakers are ramping up their 16nm/14nm logic processes, with 10nm expected to move into early production later this year.
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Intel eyes path to get back to Moore's Law
posted on March 16, 2016 09:03
Intel prides itself on making computers faster, cheaper and smaller, but in recent years, the company lost a chip manufacturing edge it had to make that happen.
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ReRAMs: 3D Filaments and Brain-like Functions
posted on March 16, 2016 09:02
University College London researchers are building on earlier work with ReRAMs based only on the sub-oxides of silicon to make the case for the suitability of their devices for use as emulators of brain-like neural functions.
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