Category: Manufacturing
Manufacturing
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Costs for Sub-20nm Wafers put Another Nail in Moore’s Law’s Coffin
IC Insights has just published the September Update to The 2018 McClean Report, and one figure (reproduced below) puts yet another nail into the…
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For Lease: Birthplace of the IC
The lease listing on the Pacific American Group’s Web site reads: “Eight Forty Four East Charleston Road is a historically relevant commercial building in…
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391 San Antonio Road: The House that William Shockley Built (and Destroyed)
Once upon a time, the Santa Clara Valley was called the Valley of Heart’s Delight; the main industry was growing prunes; and there were orchards…
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EDPS (The Electronic Design Process Symposium) is Silicon Valley’s Hidden Gem, September 13-14, 2018
For twenty-five years, EDPS—the Electronic Design Process Symposium—has been probing the very limits of design. While it formerly took place in exotic locale of Sand…
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A New Step Forward for 3D Printed Fashion?
3D printed fashion is not new at this point. Printed accessories, jewelery, and even dresses have been showing up at Maker Faires, 3D Printing shows,…
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Nanoimprint for Photonics
We’ve talked about photonics before and we’ve talked about nanoimprint lithography (NIL) before. Creating silicon photonics features requires masking, which requires lithography, and so it…
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Monolithic Plastic… Or Not
With semiconductors, we have this expectation that, at some future time, we’ll be able to integrate everything onto a single chip. Analog, digital, MEMS… you…
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50% Deeper TSVs
We’ve been talking about through-silicon vias (TSVs) for years now, but 2.5D and 3D ICs are still trickling out at the high end. Processing costs…
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Semiconductor CapEx to grow 5.6% in 2015
Semiconductor, meet cycle. It’s another up/down go-around for semiconductor capital spending, according to the latest Gartner report that predicts that 2015 will be nearly flat…