Amid escalating trade tensions with the West, the process of building a self-sufficient semiconductor ecosystem in China has strongly accelerated. Chinese players are starting to threaten the market’s equilibrium and could trigger profound changes in the memory business.
A View on the Logic Technology Roadmap
While chipmakers are moving ahead with technology generations, maintaining the same timeline for scaling transistors in the front-end-of-line (FEOL), contacts and interconnects in the middle- (MOL) and back-end-of-line (BEOL) has become challenging.
It’s Time to Boost U.S. Manufacturing
There is a newfound interest in revitalizing semiconductor manufacturing in the U.S.
Going from Macro to Micro in Semiconductor Inspections
Macro-to-micro viewing capabilities of digital microscopes can help overcome common challenges in the inspection process.
Challenges to Replacing Hard-Disk Drives
Computational storage devices are the new must-have peripherals for intensive storage applications.
China Forecast to Represent 22% of the Foundry Market in 2020
Despite the Covid-19 shutdown of China’s economy earlier this year, China’s share of the pure-play foundry market is forecast to be 22% in 2020, 17 percentage points greater than it registered in 2010
Developing a UHF RFID Reader RF Front End
Two implementations showing how engineers can trade off receiver sensitivity for reduced design complexity, component count, and board space in UHF RFID applications.
Powering Ahead
Integrated RF and tuning networks, solid-state tuning networks, non-sinusoidal bias for tailored ion energy distribution, and predictive power delivery will enable process applications at advanced technology nodes.
Five Trends That Will Shape the Future Semiconductor Technology Landscape
Is Moore’s Law still alive, and which applications will benefit from ultra-scaled technologies? How will data centers cope with the overwhelming amount of data? And will we be able to break the memory wall in traditional Von Neumann computing architectures?
How COVID-19 is Impacting the Memory Industry
Heading into 2020 both the DRAM and NAND industries were projected to have turn-around years after suffering through much of 2018 and 2019. However, with the global lockdown triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic the outlook for the industry has changed considerably, and not all the change is for the worse. In this article we explore the impact on memory demand, how suppliers are expected to react to the pandemic, and the likely impact to pricing over the near-to-midterm.
