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From FinFETs To Gate-All-Around - Semiconductor Engineering
Nov 19, 2020 · Gate-all-around, or GAA transistors, are a modified transistor structure where the gate contacts the channel from all sides and enables continued scaling. Such transistors are referred to as gate-all-around, or GAA, transistors, and different variants have been proposed. Early GAA devices will use vertically-stacked nanosheets.
Where All The Semiconductor Investments Are Going
Nov 17, 2022 · Where All The Semiconductor Investments Are Going. Details on more than $500B in new investments by nearly 50 companies; what’s behind the expansion frenzy, why now, and challenges ahead. November 17th, 2022 - By: Ed Sperling. Companies and countries are funneling huge sums of money into semiconductor manufacturing, materials, and research ...
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Semiconductor Engineering was created by chip architects, engineers, journalists, end users, industry organizations and standards bodies to provide deep insights into the increasingly complex task of designing, testing, verifying, integrating and manufacturing semiconductors, as well as insights into the market dynamics that make it all possible. The goal of this site is to provide useful ...
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Nov 7, 2024 · The semiconductor industry is undergoing a profound shift in packaging technologies to ones that rely on close collaboration among multiple stakeholders to solve intricate, multi-faceted, and extraordinarily complex problems. At the heart of this change is the convergence of heterogeneous integration, chiplets, and 3D stacking.
Chip Industry Week In Review - Semiconductor Engineering
September 8th, 2023 - By: The SE Staff. By Liz Allan, Jesse Allen, and Karen Heyman. Global semiconductor equipment billings dipped 2% year-over-year to US$25.8 billion in Q2, and slipped 4% compared with Q1, according to SEMI. Similarly, the top 10 semiconductor foundries reported a 1.1% quarterly-over-quarter revenue decline in Q2.
Semiconductor Engineering - Category Main Page: Research
Research Bits: Oct. 14. Si-photonics chip emits beam of light; towards piezoelectric converters without transformers; digital twin for autonomous driving. Published on October 14th, 2024 by Liz Allan.
Semiconductor Device Manufacturing Process Challenges And …
Dec 7, 2023 · Major processes in semiconductor wafer fabrication: 1) wafer preparation, 2) pattern transfer, 3) doping, 4) deposition, 5) etching, and 6) packaging. The process of creating semiconductors can be broken down into several key steps. The first step is wafer preparation. A silicon wafer is chosen as the starting material for the semiconductor ...
Thinking Big: From Chips To Systems - Semiconductor Engineering
Feb 27, 2024 · Multi-die systems require new tools, technologies, and some very different approaches to design automation. February 27th, 2024 - By: Ed Sperling. Semiconductor Engineering sat down with Aart de Geus, executive chair and founder of Synopsys, to talk about the shift from chips to systems, next-generation transistors, and what’s required to ...
Emerging Technologies Driving Heterogeneous Integration
Sep 24, 2024 · Emerging Technologies Driving Heterogeneous Integration. New architectures, opportunities, and challenges as chipmakers move from monolithic architectures to chiplets. As chips are disaggregated into chiplets, more features are being added into these devices that chipmakers were unable to include in the past due to reticle size limits and the ...