The Business versus the Technical side of Semiconductor IP

What are the business vs technical challenges of semi IP for price-sensitive, low-volume but still critical designs? CAST IP CEO Nikos Zervas answers these questions and more in this interview with John Blyler at DVCon Mar 2016. Originally published on…

Nowhere Near Room Temp Superconductors

On-chip metal interconnects limit IC speed in many advanced design today, and with signal delay proportional to the product of the resistance (R) of wires and the capacitance (C) of dielectric insulation, wires with R lower than that of copper…

Cross-point ReRAM Integration Claimed by Intel/Micron

The Intel/Micron joint-venture now claims to have successfully integrated a Resistive-RAM (ReRAM) made with an unannounced material in a cross-point architecture, switching using an undisclosed mechanism. Pilot production wafers are supposed to be moving through the Lehi fab, and samples…

CMP Slurry Trade-offs in R&D

As covered at SemiMD.com, the CMP Users Group (of the Northern California Chapter of The American Vacuum Society) recently held a meeting in Albany, New York in collaboration with CNSE, SUNY Polytechnic Institute, and SEMATECH. Among the presentations were deep…