New BEOL/MOL Breakthroughs?
Different materials, approaches for contacts and interconnects begin to surface for 7/5nm.
Inside FD-SOI And Scaling
GlobalFoundries' CTO opens up on FD-SOI, 7nm finFETs, and what's next in scaling.
2.5D, ASICs Extend to 7nm
GlobalFoundries describes 7nm finFET details.
Sourcing Used Equipment
SurplusGlobal's EVP talks about equipment shortages in 200mm equipment and why this market is in crisis mode.
Samsung Unveils Scaling, Packaging Roadmaps
Foundry unit rolls out ambitious plan down to 4nm, along with 18nm FD-SOI and advanced packaging developments.
Reworking Established Nodes
Attention turns to pre-finFET processes because benefits of device scaling don't apply equally to all markets.
200mm Crisis?
Demand is up, capacity is flat. A look at what's behind this imbalance.
Extending EUV Beyond 3nm
Now that EUV is finally shipping, companies are working on extending it much further using anamorphic lenses and high numerical aperture technology.
Materials For Future Electronics
Flexible electronics, new memory types, and neuromorphic computing dominate research.
Inside Lithography And Masks
Experts at the table, part 3: EUV, DSA, nanoimprint, nanopatterning, and best guesses for how far lithography can be extended.
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Inside Lithography And Masks
Experts at the table, part 3: EUV, DSA, nanoimprint, nanopatterning, and best guesses for how far lithography can be extended.
Inside Lithography And Masks
Experts at the table, part 2: Where EUV fits, what problems still remain, and what are the alternatives.
Inside Lithography And Masks
Experts at the table, part 1: EUV's viability still in doubt even as rollout begins. Uptime and cost are top concerns.
BEOL Issues At 10nm And 7nm
Experts at the table, part 3: EUV, metallization, self-alignment, ALD, and the limits of copper.
BEOL Issues At 10nm And 7nm
Experts at the table, part 2: The impact and cost of air gap; reducing RC delay with liner-less approaches and cobalt; where EUV will make a dent.....
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Tech Talk: FD-SOI vs. FinFET
Cost, performance, multi-patterning and the 12nm roadmap.
Tech Talk: Embedded Memories
Which type of memory is better and why.
Tech Talk: GPU-Accelerated Photomasks
Upcoming challenges in the mask shop and how to deal with them.
Tech Talk: Double-Triple Patterning
What comes after double patterning and why you need to understand it.
Tech Talk: 14nm And Stacked Die
Why the 14nm node will be long lived, and how it will be used in 2.5D and 3D-IC packages.
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