Special Report
Searching For The Next Power Transistor
Silicon carbide, gallium nitride and even diamonds are all in the running for the next wide-bandgap material.
Top Stories
Next Channel Materials?
What will replace silicon and when will it happen? There are no simple answers, but something has to be done.
Manufacturing And Packaging Changes For 2015
Good times ahead for the semiconductor industry, but some tricky issues that they will have to navigate in 2015.
One-On-One: Aaron Thean
Imec’s process technology and logic devices guru talks about 7nm and 5nm parasitics, new materials and transistors, and where are the biggest unknowns.
Semiconductors By The Numbers
5 economists offer their views on how the economy will shape up in the next few years and what that means for semiconductors.
Video
Tech Talk: Photomask Challenges
A deep dive into challenges faced by mask shops now that lithography and process technology are out of sync.
Blogs
Editor in Chief Ed Sperling observes that time between process nodes is becoming far less relevant than solving the problems that crop up at new and existing nodes, in Redefining Progress.
Executive Editor Mark LaPedus contends the business model is broken in the fab tool and materials industry, in Fab Tool R&D And Ramen Noodles.
Mentor Graphics’ Saunder Peng looks at how to speed up the conversion from ASCII to GDS/OASIS, along with merging it all with the original GDS, in Rule Deck Comparison Doesn’t Have To Be Difficult.
Semico Research’s Joanne Itow finds graphene has done exceptionally well in the public relations department, but not so well from a commercialization standpoint, in Wonder Material?
SEMI’s Yoichiro Ando digs into the semiconductor industry’s growth and outlook, including the impact of the Internet of Things, in The Semiconductor Future Looks Bright!
White Paper
EDT Test Points
Embedded deterministic test points have been created specifically to deal with embedded compression to reduce pattern volume for compressed patterns.
