Optical connectivity, particularly through silicon photonics, is anticipated to become a pivotal technology in facilitating connectivity for next-generation datacenters, especially those designed…
Intel announced a funding award today for the Center for Advanced Semiconductor Fabrication Research and Education (CAFE) of $3 million over three years. This grant comes on the heels of Ohio State…
Apple has reportedly approved 3D NAND flash produced by Yangtze Memory Technologies Corp. and will now use it for its upcoming iPhone 14 smartphones. The move represents a strong win for YMTC and…
Onto Innovation has been slightly outgrowing KLA in inspection and metrology tools through standalone Optical Critical Dimension (OCD) tools in front-end fabrication as well as in the backend…
Cycle times in FABs are the result of utilization and capacity in relation to the x-factor and are demonstrated visually in the operating curve that shows how shorter cycle times improve throughput…
Industry sources say Japan-based semiconductor material suppliers are facing a decline in sales in the second half of the year amid weakening demand for consumer applications, but many still have…
Graphene has been hailed as a wonder material for several years now in electronics as well as other areas, including several different types of materials. In 2018, research firm McKinsey estimated…
The researchers from the Materials Department at Fraunhofer IISB have grown an aluminum nitride (AlN) crystal with a diameter of 43 mm in technology-relevant quality. For Fraunfofer IISB this result…
Perovskites hold promise for creating solar panels that could be easily deposited onto most surfaces, including flexible and textured ones. These materials would also be lightweight, cheap to…
With the ground-breaking ceremony on September 6, 2022, construction work on the new high-tech factory (Fab) of the Jenoptik Group in the Airport Park Dresden. The two of them broke ground together…
A dog-eat-dog culture is developing in Cambridge and other UK hotspots that threatens to stop the country leading the world in semiconductor technology. The chips are literally and figuratively down…
Archer Materials Limited has announced that it will work with world-leading semiconductor foundry, GlobalFoundries, to advance the development of its 12CQ quantum chip technology (“12CQ chip…
The US export control restricts EDA tools below 3 nanometers, which has limited impact on China's semiconductor industry in the short term and restricts China's progress towards advanced…
Indian Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (ISMC), an international semiconductor consortium, has invested $3 billion in a chip-making plant in India’s southern state of Karnataka. The consortium,…
The company expects to start producing 3-nanometer chips in Tainan in the second half and 2-nanometer chips at new factories in Hsinchu.
TSMC Arizona is on time and on track to bring the most…
The EU has targeted an increase in its share of the global semiconductor industry from 9% now up to 30% by 2030. But to hit this target, it needs to re-think its approach to the manufacturing of…
First new memory fab in the U.S. in 20 years will create an estimated 17,000 new American jobs.
New planned Micron Fab in Idaho
Micron Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: MU), one of the world’s…
Replicating the human brain in software and silicon is a longstanding goal of artificial intelligence (AI) research. And while neuromorphic chips have made significant inroads in being able to run…
A new leak says that TSMC has decided to abandon its N3 process and will instead concentrate on the more efficicent N3E node. This technology will be possibly used for Apple's A17 Bionic mobile AP.…
As TSMC gears up to bring advanced semiconductor manufacturing to the U.S., the company’s American employees recount their experiences receiving job training in Taiwan.
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SK Hynix is accelerating the development of a next-generation standard for 4D NAND flashes by mass-producing 238-layer products, the world's highest layers.
Source: https://www.businesskorea.co…
