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Fab Equipment Spending To Rise
By Christian Dieseldorff - 07 Jun, 2013 - Comments: 0

By Christian Gregor Dieseldorff Fab equipment spending will grow two percent year-over-year (US$ 32.5 billion) for 2013 and 23 to 27 percent in 2014 ($41 billion) according to the May edition of the SEMI World Fab Forecast. Fab construction spending, which can be a strong indicator for future equipment spending, is expected to grow 6.5 percent ($6.6 billion) in 2013, followed by a decline of 1... » read more

Low-e Windows Built Using The Design Rules
By Michael Watts - 06 Jun, 2013 - Comments: 0

By Michael P. C. Watts Last week I identified the four energy bands that determined the effectiveness of windows: visible, solar near IR, re-radiated mid IR and thermal convection. Each energy band requires its own mitigation strategy, dictated by the available materials. This week I will describe how to create low e windows using design rules for each energy band. The whole story is available... » read more

Design strategy for low e windows with effective insulation
By Michael Watts - 29 May, 2013 - Comments: 0

Whether you want to save your wallet, or save your planet; effective insulation of structures is essential. It turns out that windows are much more interesting and challenging design problem than I appreciated. This is a 2 part story, if you hate serials, the whole story is at www.impattern.com. As a warm blooded species, our body temperature (37C/98F) determines the temperature that we feel... » read more

Painting By Numbers
By Joanne Itow - 16 May, 2013 - Comments: 0

By Joanne Itow Semiconductor revenue growth dropped to a compound annual growth rate of only 3.4% over the past five years and units grew only 3.0%. Throughout the same period, semiconductor wafer demand grew 6.6%, higher than unit growth but lower than the historical average. What caused this decline and will the industry ever get back to ‘normal’ growth rates? Figure 1. Annual Growth ... » read more

Between A Rock And A Hard Place
By David Abercrombie - 16 May, 2013 - Comments: 0

By David Abercrombie My previous articles included a lot of discussion about correcting error violations in double patterning (DP). This time let’s take a step back up the design flow. DP requires a design team to make some important decisions about standard cell design methodologies, or risk running into serious placement issues down the line. Understanding why this is so, and what your opt... » read more

Photomask Market Update
By Lara Chamness - 16 May, 2013 - Comments: 0

By Lara Chamness The worldwide semiconductor photomask market was $3.2 billion in 2012 and is forecast to reach $3.5 billion in 2014. After reaching a market peak in 2011, the photomask market contracted 4 % in 2012. The mask market is expected to grow 3 % and another 3% sequentially over the next two years. Key drivers in this market continue to be advanced technology feature sizes (less than... » read more

President Obama Visits Applied Materials
By Applied Materials Writers - 16 May, 2013 - Comments: 0

By John Kania [caption id="attachment_8398" align="alignnone" width="518" caption="Applied Materials CEO Mike Splinter with President Barack Obama as they tour the Austin manufacturing clean room and hear from Applied employee Nilam D. Bhakta-Sahib about the complex chip making process. "][/caption] President Obama rode Air Force One into Austin, Texas, to shine a spotlight on the import... » read more

Bigger Wafers, Bigger Risk
By Ed Sperling - 16 May, 2013 - Comments: 0

At 22/20/16/14nm the semiconductor industry is experiencing a rather new twist on Moore’s Law. Smaller, as in smaller feature sizes, is no longer assumed to be cheaper—or at least not for everyone. In fact, the cost per transistor for the first time in more than half a century could rise in some cases. Whether this outlook improves as the semiconductor industry gains more experience wit... » read more

FinFET Isolation: Bulk vs. SOI
By Various Writers - 15 May, 2013 - Comments: 1

Terry Hook of IBM recently contributed an article to ASN about FinFET isolation issues on bulk vs. SOI.  It generated immense interest, and created lots of discussion on various LinkedIn groups.  In case you missed it, here it is again. (This article is based on an in-depth presentation Terry gave at the SOI Consortium's Fully-Depleted Tech Workshop, held during VLSI-TSA in Taiwan, April 2... » read more

The Sun Is Bright. Use More Of It.
By Michael Watts - 30 Apr, 2013 - Comments: 0

By Michael P.C. Watts The sun is bright and warm, there must be a way to use more of it to generate power. Last time the discussion focused on the opportunity for other semiconductor materials, and whether there was any realistic opportunity for new technologies given the state of the industry. This is the third of a series of blogs to try and answer this question. If you hate serials, the com... » read more

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