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IMEC announces directed self-assembly process line

European research institute IMEC has co-developed a directed self-assembly manufacturing process to improve both optical and extreme ultraviolet ...

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Good question @resistion - I don't know, but I think for critical levels of something like a memory ...

Researchers develop novel form of hafnium oxide

A research team working under Andrew Flewitt at the Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge has developed a novel form of hafnium ...

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As far as I am aware it is pretty universally carefully engineered hafnium oxide used in HKMG. Not ...

Reports: trace carcinogens found in Korean wafer fabs

Cancer-inducing chemicals were found in chip making facilities belonging to Samsung, Hynix and Fairchild Semiconductor, according to local reports ...

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I think you are right but you are not meant to detect them in the open enivironment where workers ...

ARM tips 'gods and giants' roadmap

Processor and related IP licensor ARM Holdings plc has disclosed the names, but little else, on the roadmap of cores it is working on in 2012 and ...

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Yes Warren East did indicate when to expect Atlas/Apollo. I quote him in copy "We expect Atlas, ...

Automating the MEMS design processes

With the MEMS market growing at an annual compound growth rate of 50 percent, electronic design automation tools from Coventor are adding scripting to ...

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I am just wondering how is the simulation of the mechanical part done. It is easy to simulate the ...

Freescale's CEO sees light at end of the tunnel

Freescale Semiconductor CEO Rich Beyer said the semiconductor industry is close to the end of the current downturn on a day when his company reported ...

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Good sign! Hope this prediction can really become true. Besides the inventory issue, what is the ...

European startup attempts many-core revolution

French startup Kalray is attempting to break through the many-core barrier with a 256-core processor array integrated on a 28-nm CMOS chip.

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Don't forget Martin Marietta with their Geometric Arithmetic Parallel Processor (GAPP) in 1988. A ...

Startup proposes processor on DRAM process

Venray Technology has proposed building a small microprocessor on a DRAM process to save power.

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This thing is going to rock the world.

Intel shuffles execs, names COO

Intel announced the promotions of Brian Krzanich to chief operating officer and Dadi Perlmutter to chief product officer.

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Patricia Sellers wrote a couple of nice pieces on Sean Maloney last year. His passion for his work ...

EDA/IP Weekly Roundup – Jan 18th

Agilent, ASELTA Nanographics, Carbon Design Systems, lots of space people and David Yeh made the lineup today. See here for their news…

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TSMC's 28-nm process in trouble, says analyst

Mike Bryant, technology analyst with Future Horizons Ltd. has said that foundry Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. is in trouble with its ...

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It sounds like there is no clear story here, one says no yield and another says on target for defect ...

Mentor and Freescale partner on virtual platforms

Tools and IP begin the blur the line and Mentor and Freescale provide another example of that..

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This kind of development suite was really a need for Freescale products, Mentor Graphics has very ...

Semiconductor News

Apple claims Motorola misusing Qualcomm license

Apple filed a lawsuit against Motorola Mobility seeking to block Motorola from asserting patents against Apple in German lawsuit, according to ...

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The fight is getting interesting. If Moto & Qualcomm has some cross licensing agreement then no way ...

Analyst: Micron still in negotiations with Elpida

Memory chip vendor Micron Technology did not address rumors that it has been in talks to invest in or acquire Japan's Elpida Memory at its analyst ...

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Paying off some of Elpida's debt for some of its market share..could be tempting for Micron. Elpida ...

Amkor cuts workforce

Semiconductor test and packaging house Amkor Technology revealed that it took a $4 million charge in the fourth quarter of 2011 for restructuring ...

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Thought it could ride the TSV wave, also partnering with GlobalFoundries.

Commentary

SoCs: Unsung heroes of the smartphone revolution

Majeed Ahmad

The smartphone revolution enabled by the convergence of voice, data and video in a single mobile device wouldn't have been possible without the SoC, the author argues.

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Rumored Japanese chip merger by the numbers

Dylan McGrath

Merging the SoC businesses of Renesas, Fujitsu and Panasonic would create a large company, but the exact size in sales is difficult to pinpoint.

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ST-E is not looking good at the moment especially considering the mega-merge happened even earlier ...

Japan Inc. faces choppy seas

Junko Yoshida

The blueprint for proposed merger/joint venture plan has fingerprints of Japan’s bureaucrats at Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (MEITI) all over it. Practically speaking, such business engineering makes little sense.

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Aggressive marketing may be another area. If semiconductor business of this merger closely work with ...

FujiPanaRene: clinging to the wreckage

Peter Clarke

The latest plan from Japan Inc., to merge the semiconductor interests of three companies, has signs of a top-down driven reactive disaster waiting to happen, according to Peter Clarke.

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Which makes sense for Apple. Vertical integration, it seems, really only makes sense for a company ...

Viewpoint: How will the chip wars be won? -- Part 1

Pushkar Ranade

For decades, silicon technology development has been shaped by the growth of the PC industry and the need to continuously increase the performance of digital transistors. A maturing PC industry and a rapidly growing mobile market are changing the dynamics.

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I think this is all very interesting... clearly we have a growing problem in our ability to advance ...

 

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