Using Machine Learning In Fabs

By Mark LaPedus - 19 Sep, 2019 - Comments: 1

Amid the shift towards more complex chips at advanced nodes, many chipmakers are exploring or turning to advanced forms of machine learning to help solve some big challenges in IC production. A subset of artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, uses advanced algorithms in systems to recognize patterns in data as well as to learn and make predictions about the information. In the fab, ... » read more

VC Perspectives On An AI Summer

By Michael Stewart - 19 Sep, 2019 - Comments: 0

It’s been a busy summer for Applied Ventures. Our team has had many interactions in the startup and investing space, and added some new companies to our portfolio. I’ll be sharing highlights of these activities in a series of upcoming blogs, but first I’d like to reflect on current market developments in machine learning and how they are affecting VC investment patterns. Strategic inve... » read more

The Future Of Power Needs To Be Exotic

By Applied Materials - 18 Sep, 2019 - Comments: 0

Moore’s Law follows the continual advancement of smaller silicon transistors, which is ideal for faster operating speeds in processors and increasing memory size density. However, not all solutions require smaller transistors, and not all are made on silicon wafers. LEDs are made from gallium arsenide (GaAs) and lasers use indium phosphide (InP), while power devices are transitioning to si... » read more

EUV Annual Perceptions Survey – 2019

By eBeam Initiative - 18 Sep, 2019 - Comments: 0

8th Annual Perceptions Survey – 2019 (July) of 68 luminaries across 42 different companies about use of EUV. Confidence in EUV remains high • 73% predict HVM by end of 2020 • Outlook is positive for actinic inspection and pellicle Click here to see survey slides. » read more

Effects Of A Random Process Variation On The Transfer Characteristics Of A Fundamental Photonic Integrated Circuit Component

By Coventor - 18 Sep, 2019 - Comments: 0

Silicon photonics is rapidly emerging as a promising technology to enable higher bandwidth, lower energy, and lower latency communication and information processing, and other applications. In silicon photonics, existing CMOS manufacturing infrastructure and techniques are leveraged. However, a key challenge for silicon photonics is the lack of mature models that take into account known CMOS pr... » read more

No Mess, No Stress

By Amit Varde - 18 Sep, 2019 - Comments: 0

A clean and tidy working environment is often a productive environment. Imagine a desk with a lot of clutter. One may lose precious work minutes every time we go searching for a lost paper on a cluttered desk. The same is true if you are working on your designs. During the course of a design project, spirited and fast thinking design engineers run several experiments. Some of them are more s... » read more

Why DRAM Won’t Go Away

By Ed Sperling - 18 Sep, 2019 - Comments: 0

Semiconductor Engineering sat down to talk about DRAM's future with Frank Ferro, senior director of product management at Rambus; Marc Greenberg, group director for product marketing at Cadence; Graham Allan, senior product marketing manager for DDR PHYs at Synopsys; and Tien Shiah, senior manager for memory marketing at Samsung Electronics. What follows are excerpts of that conversation. Part ... » read more

Wolfspeed GaN: Rugged Enough For Tracking Space Junk, Rugged Enough For 5G

By Wolfspeed, a Cree Company - 18 Sep, 2019 - Comments: 0

GaN RF devices are used throughout the world on projects in a broad range of applications such as surveillance and weather radar, first responder communications, and improvised explosive device (IED) protection systems, where downtime is not an option. But are they rugged and reliable enough to tackle the harshest environments the telecom market can hand out, especially as it relates to 5G smal... » read more

Blog Review: Sept. 18

By Jesse Allen - 18 Sep, 2019 - Comments: 0

Cadence's Paul McLellan checks out MLPerf and the challenges involved in developing a benchmark to assess machine learning training and inference performance. Synopsys' Om Prakash Thakur and Nusrat Ali take a look at the different types of NVDIMM and how it can bridge the performance gap between memory and storage solutions in servers. Mentor's Matthew Ballance points to why adoption of P... » read more

External Resistance Reduction By Nanosecond Laser Anneal In Si/SiGe CMOS Technology

By Veeco - 18 Sep, 2019 - Comments: 0

Authors: 1Oleg Gluschenkov, 1Heng Wu, 1Kevin Brew, 2Chengyu Niu, 1Lan Yu, 1Yasir Sulehria, 1Samuel Choi, 22Curtis Durfee, 1James Demarest, 1Adra Carr, 3Shaoyin Chen, 3Jim Willis, 3Thirumal Thanigaivelan, 1Fee-li Lie, 2Walter Kleemeier, and 1Dechao Guo 1IBM Research, 257 Fuller Road, Albany, NY 12203, USA, email: [email protected] 2GLOBALFOUNDRIES Inc., Albany, NY, USA, 3ULTRATECH, a division ... » read more

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