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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FBI Request Exceeds ‘Just 1 iPhone’
posted on March 16, 2016 09:01
SAN FRANCISCO — After five hours of testimony in the U.S. House of Representatives' Judiciary Committee on Tuesday (March 1), we are still walking the “encryption tightrope” in the Apple vs. FBI debate that is pitting national security against smartphone privacy.
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Will 5Nm Happen?
posted on February 08, 2016 13:05
Chipmakers are ramping up their 16/14nm finFET processes, with 10nm finFETs expected to ship sometime in late 2016 or early 2017.
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