Designing In 4D
posted on December 04, 2019 13:05
Until 16/14nm, most design engineers viewed the world in two dimensions. Circuits were laid out along x and y axes, and everything was packed in between those two borders.
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Samsung on trial: Can top South Korea company stay on course?
posted on December 04, 2019 13:04
SEOUL -- Things looked bright for Samsung Electronics in 2016. The company had just announced South Korea's biggest-ever corporate takeover. Halfway around the world the future U.S. president was also using a Galaxy smartphone to tweet scathing attacks against the company's archrival Apple.
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The Fight Over Encrypted DNS: Explained
posted on December 04, 2019 13:03
Privacy and security specialists are in the middle of a very public fight over the future of Internet encryption.
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A Semiconductor Slump Will Send Shockwaves Across the Sector
posted on December 04, 2019 13:02
For two years, strong demand and favorable pricing sent sales of semiconductors soaring: In 2017 and 2018, the global semiconductor industry saw revenue jump by 21.6% and 13.7%, respectively.
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Is There A Crossover Point For Mainstream Anymore?
posted on December 04, 2019 13:01
Until 28nm, it was generally assumed that process nodes would go mainstream one or two generations after they were introduced. So by the time the leading edge chips for smartphones and servers were being developed at 16/14nm and 10/7nm, it was assumed that developing a chip at 28nm would be less expensive, less complex, and that the process rule deck would shrink.
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Huawei chip mission shows Taiwan economy gaining from trade war
posted on November 16, 2019 16:05
TAIPEI -- A small group of high-ranking Huawei executives went to Taiwan last month on a mission to ensure that a crucial supplier could continue delivering cutting-edge chips to the Chinese tech giant amid the protracted trade war between Beijing and Washington.
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China lags far behind in semiconductor battle
posted on November 16, 2019 16:04
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — China is lagging behind in its quest to become a global leader in the semiconductor industry, said Chairman Zhao Weiguo (趙偉國) of China’s state-run semiconductor maker Tsinghua Unigroup.
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China's top chip maker urges U.S. firms to help ease tensions
posted on November 16, 2019 16:03
BEIJING (Reuters) - The head of China’s top state-run semiconductor maker, Tsinghua Unigroup Ltd, called on U.S. companies to “do better” in efforts to overcome China-U.S. tech tensions given they continue to profit from the Chinese market.
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IBM’s DRAM inventor Bob Dennard gets chip industry’s highest honor
posted on November 16, 2019 16:02
If you’re using anything electronic, from a smartphone to a laptop, you’re using Robert Dennard‘s fundamental invention: the single-cell dynamic random access memory chip.
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Inspecting, Patterning EUV Masks
posted on November 16, 2019 16:01
EUV mask inspection is a critical part of the mask making process for extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography. During the process flow, defects or particles can crop up on the EUV mask. If the defects aren’t found and removed, the defect image may print on the wafer, thereby impacting chip yields or causing failures.
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