Chip Roadmap Slows, Diverges
posted on May 21, 2019 15:05
ANTWERP – The next-generation transistor may come in Intel, Samsung and TSMC flavors. It’s just one sign of how the semiconductor roadmap is fanning out as it approaches a frightening wall a few nodes ahead.
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Transistors Keep Moore’s Law Alive
posted on May 21, 2019 15:04
Intel founders Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore gave the semiconductor industry two legacies. First, there is Moore’s Law, which everyone knows but which is often misunderstood. Second, there is the planar integrated circuit. Noyce would have shared the Nobel Prize awarded in 2000 for the integrated circuit, if he had been alive then.
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Samsung Plans Aggressive Rollout of Next-Gen Transistors
posted on May 21, 2019 15:03
SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Samsung’s foundry division offered an update to its process technology roadmap Tuesday, including the first process design kit for its forthcoming 3-nm gate-all-around (GAA) technology. Company executives also provided some details about advanced 3D packaging technologies and introduced a new cloud-based design environment.
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Chiplet Momentum Builds, Despite Tradeoffs
posted on May 21, 2019 15:02
Chip design is a series of tradeoffs. Some are technical, others are related to cost, competitive features or legal restrictions. But with the nascent ‘chiplet’ market, many of the established balance points are significantly altered, depending on market segments and ecosystem readiness.
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INTEL GIVES MOORE’S LAW A MAKEOVER
posted on May 21, 2019 15:01
Intel’s struggles to get its 10 nanometer processors out the door has forced the company to do some serious soul-searching. And while the brain trust there has not given up on Moore’s Law, Intel is not going to rely on it in quite the same way as it has in the past.
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Apple’s Rivals See 5G as ‘Golden Opportunity’ to Beat iPhone
posted on April 15, 2019 16:05
Now that the first 5G devices are hitting the U.S. market, Apple Inc. is under more pressure to start readying a comparable iPhone — or watch its dominance come under attack.
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3D NAND Metrology Challenges Growing
posted on April 15, 2019 16:04
3D NAND vendors face several challenges to scale their devices to the next level, but one manufacturing technology stands out as much more difficult at each turn—metrology.
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ASML says damage from corporate theft in U.S. was limited
posted on April 15, 2019 16:03
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Dutch semiconductor equipment manufacturing company ASML Holding NV on Thursday confirmed it had been the victim of corporate espionage but downplayed the impact on its business.
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Low Power Meets Variability At 7/5nm
posted on April 15, 2019 16:02
Power-related issues are beginning to clash with process variation at 7/5nm, making timing closure more difficult and resulting in re-spins caused by unexpected errors and poor functional yield.
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Intel and AMD may never make a CPU we can fully trust, but others might
posted on April 15, 2019 16:01
Remember the Spectre and Meltdown security exploits from last year? Intel and AMD really hopes you don’t. Despite what they want you to believe, these speculative execution exploits aren’t going away, at least not with the solutions proposed so far.
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