By Alan Ifould, Global Market Sector Manager, Semiconductor Services, Edwards Ltd. The COVID-19 pandemic remains front and centre of everyone’s mind as we continue to learn about its human and economic impacts. There are glimmers of light as the statistics…
Single Source of System Truth By Connecting The Dots
Will a single source of truth help multi-discipline and multi-design engineers connect the dots for system-of-system development? By John Blyler What are the leading trends in the high tech semiconductor and system spaces? Is there a single source of truth?…
Overcoming Challenges of Futuristic Transistor Technology below 5nm Node
By Pavan H Vora, Akash Verma, Dhaval Parikh Abstract: To scale down a transistor below a 5nm node is one of the vital concerns for VLSI industry as there are various challenges due to the shrinking of components. Several researches…
Process Watch: The (Automotive) Problem With Semiconductors
By David W. Price, Douglas G. Sutherland and Jay Rathert Author’s Note: The Process Watch series explores key concepts about process control—defect inspection, metrology and data analysis—for the semiconductor industry. This article is the first in a five-part series on…
Process Watch: Reducing Production Costs with Process Control
Author’s Note: This is the last in a series of 10 installments that explore certain fundamental truths about process control—defect inspection and metrology—for the semiconductor industry. Each article introduces one of the 10 fundamental truths and highlights its implications. Within…
Metal nanoclusters can be used as semiconductors: Key properties observed for first time
Tiny nanoclusters of metal atoms – such as gold and silver – have properties which mean they can be used as semiconductors, a joint Swansea-Hamburg research team has discovered. The finding opens the door to a wide range of potential…
Creating Customer Value: A Case Study on 300mm Manufacturing Learning for Back Qualification of 200mm processing
The cost of many 300mm Chemical Mechanical Planarization (CMP) consumables has decreased in recent years due to a maturing market and new process learning, making it economically feasible to embark on a new 200mm Oxide CMP polishing process based on…
Samsung completes 5nm EUV development
Samsung Electronics makes major strides in EUV-based advanced nodes, including 7nm mass production and 6nm customer tape-out Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. today announced that its 5-nanometer (nm) FinFET process technology is complete in its development and is now ready for…
MagnaChip launches 28nm OLED DDIC for smartphone displays
MagnaChip Semiconductor Corporation, a designer and manufacturer of analog and mixed-signal semiconductor products, announced today that it has launched the 28-nanometer (nm) OLED (Organic Light Emitting Diodes) DDIC (Display Driver IC) for smartphone displays. The 28nm process is the most…
Semiconductor photomask sales reach record high of $4B
Following a record-breaking 2017, worldwide semiconductor photomask sales set a new high of $4.04 billion in 2018 and is forecast to extend its record-setting streak through 2020 with forecast sales of $4.2 billion, SEMI, the industry association representing the global…
