Entries for June 2015
Foundries Expand Planar Efforts
posted on June 20, 2015 18:05
Competition is heating up in the leading-edge foundry business, as vendors begin to ramp up their new 16nm/14nm finFET processes
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Is EUV Making Progress?
posted on June 20, 2015 18:04
EUV has been promised for a couple of decades, counted on for at least three process nodes on the ITRS roadmap, and considered essential to chip manufacturing since 22nm. Billions of dollars have been invested in R&D, engineering teams from around the world have contributed to its development, and still serious problems persist.
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Samsung to put 10nm chips into mass production by end of 2016
posted on June 20, 2015 18:03
Samsung Semiconductor on Thursday announced that it will have 10-nanometer FinFET chips in volume production by the end of next year.
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IHS Says Ramifications of Moore’s Law Lead to Trillions of Dollars Added to the Global Economy
posted on June 20, 2015 18:02
EL SEGUNDO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--From connectivity to globalization and sustainability, the “Law” created by Gordon Moore’s prediction for the pace of semiconductor technology advances has set the stage for global technology innovation and contribution for 50 years
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AMD Beats Nvidia to 2.5-D Graphics
posted on June 20, 2015 18:01
AMD beat archrival Nvidia to the goal of rolling out high-end graphics cards that use DRAM chip stacks to provide more memory bandwidth — and thus performance — on relatively small, low-power boards.
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“Easy Does It” ─ Fabs Trim Spending Plans
posted on June 15, 2015 12:05
Semiconductor capital expenditures (without fabless and backend) are expected to slow in rate, but continue to grow by 5.8 percent in 2015 (over US$66 billion) and 2.5 percent in 2016 (over $68 billion), according to the May update of the SEMI World Fab Forecast report. A significant part of this capex is fab equipment spending.
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What’s Really Inside?
posted on June 15, 2015 12:04
Is it just paranoia, or do devices ranging from industrial controls to military hardware really contain malicious code, Trojan Horses, and remotely triggered back doors?
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Security Risk Escalating In 2015
posted on June 15, 2015 12:03
Never has there been a more committed effort for malevolent entities to try to leak data, damage infrastructures, and wreak havoc on data essential to our lives.
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Big Data Needs Bigger Memory
posted on June 15, 2015 12:02
Over the last few decades, the semiconductor industry has focused its considerable technical investments in accelerating software applications.
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Conspiracy Theory
posted on June 15, 2015 12:01
The last couple of months have seen some interesting blips pop up on the security radar screen. To me, the most interesting on is the claim by Hugo Teso, a commercial pilot and security consultant and trained commercial pilot who claims to have developed an Android app that can remotely attack and take full control of an aircraft. The story goes that he was able to cobble together hardware and software, he got on eBay.
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