Special Report
Sorting Out Next-Gen Memory
A long list of new memory types is hitting the market, but which ones will be successful isn’t clear yet.
Top Stories
Grappling With Chip Manufacturing Data
Questions persist about how to deal with an explosion in data, and who has access to it, but changes are on the horizon.
Mask Maker Worries Grow
Part two: Problems continue to grow at each new process node, and so do the costs.
Deploying Multi-Beam Mask Writers
What Intel’s proposed acquisition of IMS means for photomasks and multi-beam mask writer technology.
Blogs
Editor In Chief Ed Sperling questions how much the continuation of device scaling is worth, in 450mm And Other Emergency Measures.
Executive Editor Mark LaPedus points to new and major challenges faced by the mask industry, in 5 Takeaways From BACUS.
Applied Materials’ Ben Lee observes that the costs are still too high, but the benefits of wide bandgap materials are impressive, in Will III-V Power Devices Happen?
Mentor Graphics David Abercrombie examines what can go wrong, and what to do when it does go wrong, in The Pitfalls Of Auto-Stitching In Double-Patterning.
Coventor’s digs into lithography hotspot detection and mitigation with 3D DCTO, in Design Process Technology Co-Optimization For Manufacturability.
SEMI’s Heidi Hoffman looks at what is new at the manufacturing institute for flexible hybrid electronics, in NextFlex Takes High Profile With Events And First Round Of Project Announcements.
