Top Stories
Neuromorphic Chip Biz Heats Up
Old concept gets new attention as device scaling becomes more difficult.
Why Use A Package?
UCLA’s Subramaniam Iyer believes the industry needs to rethink its future direction.
5nm Fab Challenges
New transistor types, plus issues with masks, patterning, materials, process control and interconnects, add up to a very tough transition.
Predictions For 2016: Semiconductors, Manufacturing And Design
Discontinuities involving lithography and complexity will result in significant changes starting this year.
Video
Tech Talk: Double vs. Triple Patterning
What comes after double patterning and why you need to understand it.
Blogs
Editor in Chief Ed Sperling warns of delays, detours and lots more engineering work, in Industry Road Map Under Construction.
Executive Editor Mark LaPedus looks at what’s happening in artificial intelligence and questions whether today’s hardware can keep up, in Inside AI And Deep Learning.
Technical Editor Katherine Derbyshire shows why anamorphic lenses are so important to EUV and Quentin Tarantino, in Coming To A Fab Near You?
Imec’s Jef Poortmans observes that it’s increasingly possible to stack technologies to produce smart systems, in The Internet Of Power Also Benefits From Moore’s Law.
Mentor Graphics’ Sierene Aymen and Hartmut Marquardt contend that eliminating the manual work required to verify the power intent of analog IPs is crucial for avoiding risks created by human error, in Automated Power Model Verification For Analog IPs.
Applied Materials’ Max McDaniel reports on what technology was on display and what kinds of displays were being shown, in Display Landscape Heats Up At CES 2016.
Semico Research’s Jim Feldhan checks out a different side of CES with smarter cars and pet interaction technology, in Hello, It’s Your Pet Calling.
SEMI’s Jamie Gerard concludes that many of SEMI’s priorities are a recognized part of the political agenda in Washington, in Obama Delivers Unique State-Of-The-Union Speech.
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Overview Of Atomic Layer Etching In The Semiconductor Industry
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