Top Stories
Will There Be Enough Silicon Wafers?
Market pressures shrink number of providers of basic building blocks for chips.
OLEDs Shine In Phones, TVs, Lights
Organic light-emitting diode technology is finding its way into more products.
What Happened To Inverse Lithography?
Technology resurges as industry pushes to 7nm and 5nm.
2.5D Surprises And Alternatives
First of two parts: Cost and supply chain issues remain as advanced packaging begins to ramp.
Blogs
Editor In Chief Ed Sperling searches for order in a sea of confusing numbers, in How Many Nanometers?
Executive Editor Mark LaPedus sits down with Samsung foundry’s senior VP to discuss strategy, in To 10nm And Beyond.
Coventor’s Sandy Wen predicts that with increasing demand for faster data transfer rates, it’s only a matter of time before silicon photonics is fully realized, in Achieving The Vision Of Silicon Photonics Processing.
Mentor Graphics’ Jeff Wilson observes that modeling of chip production steps can be a powerful tool to study multi-layer stacking effects and detect hotspots, in Creating An Accurate FEOL CMP Model.
DS2’s Ryan Pearman contends that physical mask models are more important than ever, and are now practical to deploy, in Will GPU-Acceleration Mean The End Of Empirical Mask Models?
Applied Materials’ Ben Lee finds that the development of power IC manufacturing in China is being facilitated by the large number of 200mm fabs in the country, in China Ramps Up Power IC Manufacturing.
Wolfspeed’s Jeremy Fisher goes behind the scenes on how to design a 140nm 40GHz MMIC in GaN PDK, with a hands-on video created by National Instruments.
