Special Report
What Happened To 450mm?
Plans are on hold as industry digests the cost and need for larger wafers.
Top Stories
One-On-One With Intel’s Foundry Chief
Sunit Rikhi talks about the challenges of Intel being in the commercial foundry business, specialization at advanced nodes, and the momentum building for stacked die.
The Uncertain Future Of Hard Drives
The race is on between which technology will reach the one terabit per square inch goal line first.
Has 3D NAND Fallen Flat?
Rollout is pushed to 2016 or 2017 back because it’s harder to manufacture than initial projections.
DFM And Multipatterning
Getting patterning right the first time; shifting methodologies; plus, the growing challenge of designing while trying to stabilize tools and processes.
How To Lower LED Costs
Market will grow significantly if costs continue to decrease at current rates, but there is nothing similar to Moore’s Law in this sector.
Blogs
Editor In Chief Ed Sperling finds there are lots of opinions, but so far no hard data because stacked die are so intricately bound to other parts of the manufacturing process, in All Roads Point Up…But When?
Executive Editor Mark LaPedus takes stock of the complex LED market and where it is today in Are LEDs Cool?
Technology Editor Katherine Derbyshire notes that definitions of process nodes will become less useful as time goes on in What Is A Technology Node, Anyway?
Mentor Graphics’ Jean-Marie Brunet and Nancy Nguyen observe there needs to be enough intelligence build into tools to determine which cells require a GDS view in It’s Time to Bring GDS “Reality” Into Routing Closure.
Applied Materials’ Kevin Winston explains what’s behind the company’s new name and why it’s so significant in Applied Materials And Tokyo Electron Unveil Eteris.
Semico Research’s Jim Feldhan warns that the first half of this year was better than expected, but don’t count on a repeat performance this half in Mid-Year Market Review: A Tale Of Two Halves.
Lithography guru Marc David Levenson examines the latest light research—mid-infrared microscopy, quantum cryptography and low-scattering waveguides in Visiting The Future At CLEO.
SEMI’s Paula Doe finds that university research has spawned new startups across a number of leading-edge technologies in Disruptive R&D.
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