Top Stories
Foundries Accelerate Auto Efforts
Push toward more electronics in cars turns what used to be a marginal business into a profitable one.
Is 7nm The Last Major Node?
Technical issues increase, costs go up, and not all markets will benefit.
Filtering Out Fab Problems
Entegris’ CEO talks about materials purity down to parts per quadrillion, and what impact that has on manufacturing yield at advanced nodes.
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Tech Talk: 7nm Litho
Coventor’s CTO digs into multi-patterning, new transistor types, and the biggest problems for device scaling.
Blogs
Editor In Chief Ed Sperling points to a growing lack of redundancy in semiconductor materials and components, in Can A Supply Chain Be Too Efficient?
Executive Editor Mark LaPedus zeroes in on the most pressing topics—economics, China, EUV, fan-outs and R&D—in 5 Takeaways From Semicon.
Technical Editor Katherine Derbyshire argues that whether machines solve problems like humans isn’t important, in Pessimism, Optimism And Neuromorphic Computing.
Applied Materials’ Ganesh Hegde explains how to improve on a successful formula, in Toward Smarter Manufacturing.
Coventor’s Christine Dufour examines how integrated design environments based on PDK and standard cell libraries accelerate MEMS product development, in The Future Of MEMS Design: Making MEMS Design More Like CMOS Design.
D2S’ Ryan Pearman drills down on scattering, dose/shape and mid-range correction issues, in Mask Modeling In The EUV Era.
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CMOS-Embedded STT-MRAM Arrays In 2x nm Nodes For GP-MCU Applications
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