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Tech Forecast: Fab Processes To Watch Through 2040
Key pivot and innovation points in semiconductor manufacturing.
Big Changes Ahead In Power Delivery, Materials, And Interconnects
How manufacturing and packaging will shift over the next couple decades.
Getting Smarter About Tool Maintenance
Lowering costs and increasing yield using advanced analytics for critical processes, both at leading-edge and mature nodes.
New Challenges Emerge With High-NA EUV
Thinner photoresist layers, line roughness, and stochastic defects add new problems for the angstrom generation of chips.
Mini-Consortia Forming Around Chiplets
Commercial chiplet marketplaces are still on the distant horizon, but companies are getting an early start with more limited partnerships.
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Power Semiconductors: A Deep Dive Into Materials, Manufacturing & Business
Premium Content: How these devices are made and work, challenges in manufacturing, related startups, as well as the reasons why so much effort and resources are being spent to develop new materials, and new processes.
Blogs
Technical Editor Katherine Derbyshire looks at the little changes that add up, from quantum to 3D integration and fab analytics, in Big Shifts At Very Small Geometries.
Amkor’s Vineet Pancholi warns that the non-ideal nature of items in the paths between the instruments and the device under test can degrade measurement accuracy, in Revising 5G RF Calibration Procedures For RF IC Production Testing.
Coventor’s Dempsey Deng evaluates the parasitic capacitance impact of using a Nitride-Oxide-Nitride (NON) spacer, a low-k spacer, and an airgap spacer, in A Comparative Evaluation Of DRAM Bit-Line Spacer Integration Schemes.
HJL Lithography’s Harry Levinson examines advances in resists, metrology, and illumination systems for EUV, in Evolution Of The EUV Ecosystem Reflected At 2023 Advanced Lithography + Patterning.
QP Technologies recently hosted a panel discussion involving a logic and functional specification for chiplets to enable adoption by smaller companies, in Panel Tackles Chiplet Packaging Challenges.
SEMI Taiwan’s Ashley Huang explains how GaN enables more power in less space with increased device performance and reduced costs for data centers, communications, and automotive, in Unleashing The Potential Of Compound Semiconductors: Industry Leaders Collaborate At SEMICON Taiwan 2022 To Create Ecosystem.
White Papers
Creating An Enduring National Resource
A blueprint for the national semiconductor technology center and the national advanced packaging manufacturing program.
Deep Learning (DL) Applications In Photomask To Wafer Semiconductor Manufacturing
A list of artificial intelligence used in semiconductor manufacturing tools from February 2023.
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