This future chip manufacturing technology looks evolutionary rather than revolutionary. The company's next generation technology, known as 10-nanometer, is expected to go into production during the ...

Chipmakers face a multitude of challenges in the fab at 10nm/7nm and beyond, but one technology that is typically under the radar is becoming especially difficult—metrology. Metrology, the art of ...

The IC industry entered the finFET era in 2011, when Intel leapfrogged the competition and rolled out the newfangled transistor technology at the 22nm node. Intel hopes to ramp up its ...

The semiconductor industry faces a major change in the way that ICs are made in order to keep improving performance and density, a change that has potential ramifications for design methodologies.

Since the inception of the integrated-circuit (IC) industry, design metrics such as performance, power, area, cost, and time-to-market have remained the same. In fact, Moore’s law is all about ...

TOKYO & NEW YORK & SUNNYVALE, Calif. – 16 Dec 2008: Toshiba Corporation (TOKYO:6502), IBM (NYSE: IBM), and AMD (NYSE:AMD) today announced that they have together developed a Static Random Access ...