Rapidus Corp., a Tokyo-based chip manufacturing startup, reportedly plans to build a fab capable of making 1.4-nanometer processors. Nikkei Asia reported the initiative today. The fab could create ...

Every three years or so, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co has a personal recession. Sometimes, this personal recession involves a decline in revenues and it always has to do with a decline in ...

a, Schematic illustration of the buried channel transistor structure. b, THz emission from the PN junction. Ultrafast photocarrier transport due to the built-in electric field (drift current) ...

Hybrid bonding has been in production for several years, with mature flows capable of delivering robust yields using 10µm interconnects. At that scale, processes can tolerate hundreds of nanometers of ...

A technical paper titled “Review of virtual wafer process modeling and metrology for advanced technology development” was published by researchers at Coventor Inc., Lam Research. “Semiconductor logic ...

An international consortium of chip boffins has demonstrated a maskless wafer-baking technology that they say “meets the industry requirement” for next-generation 14- and 10-nanometer process nodes.

Imagine a machine so advanced it operates with light invisible to the human eye, etching circuits onto silicon wafers at scales smaller than a virus. This is the world of EUV lithography, a ...

I have seen it rumored all over the Web that TSMC 's 20-nanometer manufacturing technology will not be suitable for high power graphics processors. Tech news site Fudzilla even claims that the ...