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Chip Industry Week in Review

By The SE Staff - 06 Jun, 2025 - Comments: 0

Global semiconductor sales hit $57 billion for the month of April 2025, a nearly 23% increase compared to April 2024 and a 2.5% increase versus March 2025, reports Semiconductor Industry Association. Here's the regional breakdown of year-over-year sales, in $US billions: Fig. 1: YoY semiconductor revenue and growth. Source: SIA Meanwhile, global semiconductor equipment billings grew 21%... » read more

Interconnects: Criteria For Alternative Metal Benchmarking And Selection (Imec, KU Leuven)

By Technical Paper Link - 19 Jun, 2024 - Comments: 0

A technical paper titled “Selecting Alternative Metals for Advanced Interconnects” was published by researchers at imec and KU Leuven. Abstract “Today, interconnect resistance and reliability are key limiters for the performance of advanced CMOS circuits. As transistor scaling is slowing, interconnect scaling has become the main driver for circuit miniaturization, and interconnect lim... » read more

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