One-On-One: Dave Hemker

By Ed Sperling - 19 May, 2016 - Comments: 0

Dave Hemker, CTO at [getentity id="22820" comment="Lam Research"], sat down with Semiconductor Engineering to look at some of the key issues on the process and manufacturing side, and some of the key developments that will reshape the semiconductor industry in the future. What follows are excerpts of that conversation. SE: One of the big discussion topics these days is [getkc id="208" commen... » read more

Many Paths To Hafnium Oxide

By Katherine Derbyshire - 31 Mar, 2016 - Comments: 0

Equipment and materials suppliers often talk about the fragmentation of integrated circuit processing. While the number of manufacturers has gone down, the diversity of the underlying semiconductor market has increased. Low-power processors for mobile devices, non-volatile memory for solid state disks, and dedicated graphics processors all have different requirements from the traditional ind... » read more

What’s Next In Mobile Displays

By Mark LaPedus - 17 Dec, 2015 - Comments: 0

The next wave of smartphones and wearables is invading the market. These systems will feature a new class of high-resolution displays, and in the near future displays will become foldable and rollable, although there are still some challenges with this technology. To be sure, mobile display technology is advancing on several fronts. On one front, for example, Apple and other systems vendor... » read more

Wanted: Integrated Approach To Hardware Design

By Semico Research - 20 Aug, 2015 - Comments: 0

By Tarun Amla Today’s electronic products have become so sophisticated and ubiquitous that we have come to expect that each new generation will address both our current and future needs. Years ago, the industry was hardware-centric and driven by “big iron” products. Capacity and functionality were thoroughly dependent upon increasingly complex hardware. Think of the movies of the 1950s w... » read more

Manufacturing Bits: June 10

By Ed Sperling - 10 Jun, 2014 - Comments: 2

Self-Assembling Nano Films Applying thin films with uniformity has always been an engineering challenge, but as feature sizes shrink the problem become even more pronounced. But a new approach developed by Lawrence Berkeley National Labs’ Materials Science Division could end up simplifying this process. The new approach used chloroform as an annealing solvent to create self-assembling arr... » read more

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One-On-One: Dave Hemker

Many Paths To Hafnium Oxide

What’s Next In Mobile Displays

Wanted: Integrated Approach To Hardware Design

Manufacturing Bits: June 10