They’re both years late, but two long-awaited manufacturing changes are finally nearing implementation in the semiconductor industry. One is the processing of much larger silicon wafer disks, which ...
Building a circuit to blink an LED is the hardware world’s version of the venerable “Hello, world!” program — it teaches you the basics in a friendly, approachable way. And the blinky light project ...
PRINCETON, N.J. — Sarnoff Corp. here this week announced it has applied charged-coupled device (CCD) technology and its camera expertise to develop a new deep-submicron semiconductor inspection system ...
ST. FLORIAN, Austria, July 12 /PRNewswire/–EV Group (EVG), a leading supplier of wafer bonding and lithography equipment for the MEMS, nanotechnology and semiconductor markets, today announced that it ...
The content of trace impurities, such as interstitial oxygen and substitutional carbon, in silicon is crucial in determining the mechanical and physical characteristics of silicon wafers. The ...
Why is 450-mm development so important to Intel (and Samsung and TSMC)? A few years ago, Intel and TSMC began heavily promoting the need for a transition from the current standard silicon wafer size, ...