tag: TSMC

450mm: Out Of Sync
By Mark LaPedus - 18 Jul, 2013 - Comments: 0

By Mark LaPedus The IC industry has been talking about it for ages, but vendors are finally coming to terms with a monumental shift in the business. The vast changes involve a pending and critical juncture, where the 450mm wafer size transition, new device architectures and other technologies will likely converge at or near the same time. In one possible scenario, 450mm fabs are projected ... » read more

MEMS Foundries Play Waiting Game
By Mark LaPedus - 18 Jul, 2013 - Comments: 0

By Mark LaPedus For years, the foundries in the microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) business have been patiently waiting for the MEMS integrated device manufacturers (IDMs) to outsource some or all of their production. The MEMS foundries are still waiting for that development. Because MEMS are custom devices tuned to a proprietary process and toolset, IDMs still prefer to use their own f... » read more

The Week In Review: July 15
By Mark LaPedus - 15 Jul, 2013 - Comments: 0

By Mark LaPedus There are more problems surfacing with extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography. Yes, the light source remains a problem, but the resists appear to be in decent shape. “The next challenge is the mask blank,” said Stefan Wurm, director of Sematech’s lithography program. The new problem involves ion beam deposition, which apparently is causing defects and overfill on EUV masks... » read more

Experts At The Table: Changes In The Ecosystem
By Ed Sperling - 15 Jul, 2013 - Comments: 0

By Ed Sperling Semiconductor Manufacturing & Design sat down with Michael Buehler-Garcia, director of design solutions marketing at Mentor Graphics; Seow Yin Lim, group director for marketing at Cadence; Kevin Kranen, director of strategic alliances at Synopsys, and Tom Quan, director at TSMC. What follows are excerpts of that conversation. SMD: Does the increasing collaboration in the ecos... » read more

The Week In Review: July 12
By Ed Sperling - 12 Jul, 2013 - Comments: 0

By Ed Sperling Cadence rolled a new version of its layout suite of tools for electrically aware designs, allowing design teams to check on electrical issues while the layout is being done. The company says this can reduce circuit design time by up to 30%, in addition to optimizing for performance and area. Cadence also announced a deal with Global Unichip, which successfully taped out a 20nm ... » read more

Mixed Signals
By Mark LaPedus - 08 Jul, 2013 - Comments: 0

By Mark LaPedus Based on the various forecasts for semiconductor equipment, the mood is mixed at this week’s Semicon West trade show in San Francisco. In its mid-year forecast, for example, SEMI predicts that the semiconductor equipment market will reach $36.3 billion in 2013, down 1.7% over 2012. But the business is expected to rebound and reach $43.98 billion in 2014, a 21.2 percent inc... » read more

The Process At TSMC That No One Talks About
By Ed Sperling - 02 Jul, 2013 - Comments: 0

We’ll probably never know the full extent of the story, but it appears the board of directors at TSMC didn’t just rubber stamp Morris Chang’s title when it named him chairman and CEO last month. Chang was always chairman, but he wasn’t CEO. He had bestowed that title on Rick Tsai several years ago, who was Chang’s heir apparent. Tsai was named president of the new business develo... » read more

Experts At The Table: Changes In The Ecosystem
By Ed Sperling - 01 Jul, 2013 - Comments: 0

By Ed Sperling Semiconductor Manufacturing & Design sat down with Michael Buehler-Garcia, director of design solutions marketing at Mentor Graphics; Seow Yin Lim, group director for marketing at Cadence; Kevin Kranen, director of strategic alliances at Synopsys, and Tom Quan, director at TSMC. What follows are excerpts of that conversation. SMD: How are chipmakers working with the rest ... » read more

Experts At The Table: Changes In The Ecosystem
By Ed Sperling - 01 Jul, 2013 - Comments: 0

By Ed Sperling Semiconductor Manufacturing & Design sat down with Michael Buehler-Garcia, director of design solutions marketing at Mentor Graphics; Seow Yin Lim, group director for marketing at Cadence; Kevin Kranen, director of strategic alliances at Synopsys, and Tom Quan, director at TSMC. What follows are excerpts of that conversation. SMD: How are chipmakers working with the rest... » read more

The Ubiquitous GPU
By Ann Mutschler - 27 Jun, 2013 - Comments: 0

By Ann Steffora Mutschler No matter the application area, GPUs are likely playing a role like never before—even to accelerate EDA software algorithms. It’s no wonder given the ability of GPUs to handle parallel processing much more effectively than CPUs. And when coexisting in a heterogeneous system, GPUs allow the design team to maximize efficiency and performance by allocating tasks... » read more

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