Why Small Fab And Assembly Houses Are Thriving

By Bryon Moyer - 15 Aug, 2024 - Comments: 0

High-volume products get more than their fair share of attention in the semiconductor world, but most chips don't fit into that category. While a few huge fabs and offshore assembly and test (OSAT) houses process enormous volumes of chips, small fabs and packaging lines serve for lower volumes, specialized technology, and prototyping. “There are companies that run literally one lot of 25 w... » read more

Flexible-Wafer Platform And CMOS-Compatible 300mm Wafer-Scale Integrated-Photonics Fabrication

By Technical Paper Link - 03 Aug, 2024 - Comments: 0

A new technical paper titled "Mechanically-flexible wafer-scale integrated-photonics fabrication platform" was published by researchers at MIT and New York Center for Research, Economic Advancement, Technology, Engineering, and Science (NY CREATES). Abstract "The field of integrated photonics has advanced rapidly due to wafer-scale fabrication, with integrated-photonics platforms and fabric... » read more

Superconducting Qubits Made Using Industry-Standard, Advanced Semiconductor Manufacturing (imec, KU Leuven)

By Technical Paper Link - 25 Mar, 2024 - Comments: 0

A new technical paper titled "High-coherence superconducting qubits made using industry-standard, advanced semiconductor manufacturing" was published by researchers at imec and KU Leuven. Abstract: "The development of superconducting qubit technology has shown great potential for the construction of practical quantum computers. As the complexity of quantum processors continues to grow, the ... » read more

MAC Operation on 28nm High-k Metal Gate FeFET-based Memory Array with ADC (Fraunhofer IPMS/GF)

By Technical Paper Link - 01 Dec, 2022 - Comments: 0

A technical paper titled "Demonstration of Multiply-Accumulate Operation With 28 nm FeFET Crossbar Array" was published by researchers at Fraunhofer IPMS and GlobalFoundries. Abstract "This letter reports a linear multiply-accumulate (MAC) operation conducted on a crossbar memory array based on 28nm high-k metal gate (HKMG) Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor (CMOS) and ferroelectric fi... » read more

Wafer Shortage Improvement In Sight For 300mm, But Not 200mm

By Adele Hars - 19 May, 2022 - Comments: 2

The supply chain for bare wafers is off-kilter. Demand is appreciably higher than the wafer suppliers can keep up with, creating shortages that could last for years. For 300mm starting wafers, the top five big players — SEH and Sumco of Japan, Siltronic of Germany, GlobalWafers of Taiwan, and SK Siltron of Korea — finally took action over the last year, spending billions on new wafer fac... » read more

Slowdown, But No Correction

By Ed Sperling - 06 Apr, 2022 - Comments: 1

The market for chips will continue to grow over the next few years, but not as quickly as over the past couple years when the work-at-home market drove up demand for everything from laptops and TVs to home video equipment. Economists painted a mixed picture for the semiconductor industry at this week's SEMI Industry Strategy Symposium, projecting continue growth in all major markets, but tem... » read more

Qubits made by advanced semiconductor manufacturing

By Technical Paper Link - 29 Mar, 2022 - Comments: 0

Abstract: "Full-scale quantum computers require the integration of millions of qubits, and the potential of using industrial semiconductor manufacturing to meet this need has driven the development of quantum computing in silicon quantum dots. However, fabrication has so far relied on electron-beam lithography and, with a few exceptions, conventional lift-off processes that suffer from low yie... » read more

2022 Chip Forecast: Mixed Signals

By Mark LaPedus - 22 Feb, 2022 - Comments: 0

Jim Feldhan, president of Semico Research, sat down with Semiconductor Engineering to talk about the outlook for the semiconductor market. SE: What was your final 2021 semiconductor forecast? What is your 2022 semiconductor forecast? Feldhan: For 2021, world semiconductor revenues totaled $558 billion and units totaled over 1.1 trillion units. In terms of growth rate, revenues increased 2... » read more

Mixed Outlook For Silicon Wafers

By Mark LaPedus - 20 Jan, 2022 - Comments: 0

Silicon wafers are a fundamental part of the semiconductor business. Every chipmaker needs to buy them in one size or another, such as 200mm, 300mm and others. Silicon wafer vendors produce and sell bare or raw silicon wafers to chipmakers, who in turn process them into chips. So what’s in store for the silicon wafer market? Sungho Yoon, senior research manager at SEMI, sat down with Se... » read more

200mm Shortages May Persist For Years

By Mark LaPedus - 20 Jan, 2022 - Comments: 2

A surge in demand for chips at more mature process nodes is causing shortages for both 200mm foundry capacity and 200mm equipment, and it shows no signs of letting up. In fact, even with new capacity coming on line this year, shortages are likely to persist for years, driving up prices and forcing significant changes across the semiconductor supply chain. Shortages for both 200mm foundry cap... » read more

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