Semiconductors

Intel surpasses Samsung in semiconductor sales revenue in Q4 2018

Samsung maintains number one ranking in semiconductor sales for the total year 2018. The declining market for semiconductors used in mobile handsets and enterprise servers led to a realignment in the company market-share ranking for semiconductor manufacturers. While Samsung led semiconductor sales for the past five quarters, Intel outpaced Samsung in the fourth quarter. Intel’s semiconductor sales revenue reached $18.4 billion in the fourth quarter, compared to $15.8 billion for…

MACOM and GLOBALFOUNDRIES collaborate to scale silicon photonics to hyperscale cloud Data Center and 5G network buildouts

Production scale of 300mm wafers is expected to enable exponential port growth in cloud Data…

Intel announces tweaks to 22FFL process for RF, MRAM at IEDM18

Part 2 – MRAM in 22FFL The second 22FFL paper at IEDM18 [1] describes the…

Intel announces tweaks to 22FFL process for RF, MRAM at IEDM18

At IEDM last year, Intel gave a half-dozen papers on various topics, including two on…

Process Watch: Monitoring for Excursions in Automotive Fabs

By David W. Price, Jay Rathert and Douglas G. Sutherland Author’s Note: The Process Watch…

Process Watch: Automotive Defect Sensitivity Requirements

By David W. Price, Douglas G. Sutherland, Jay Rathert, John McCormack and Barry Saville Author’s…

Process Watch: Yield management turns green

By David W. Price, Douglas G. Sutherland and Kara L. Sherman Author’s Note: The Process…

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