Paul Farrar, general manager of the G450C consortium, said early work has demonstrated good results and that he sees no real barriers to implementing 450mm wafers from a technical standpoint.
50 years ago: February 1964
In the February 1964 issue of Solid State Technology, Bell Laboratories described scientific advances that made possible a telephone cable system across the Atlantic Ocean. Features focused on GaAs IR emitters, tunnel diode amplifiers and ways to determine thermal resistance by flux plotting.
High cost per wafer, long design cycles may delay 20nm and beyond
Handel Jones, founder and CEO of International Business Strategies (IBS), spoke at SEMI’s Industry Strategy Symposium last week, focusing on key trends, factors impacting the growth of the industry and the migration to smaller feature dimensions. He is bullish about 2014 and industry innovation, but cautious about how quickly the industry will move to new technology nodes due to higher costs, and long design cycles.
The magic behind the gadget and the need for innovation
Rick Wallace, president and CEO of KLA-Tencor, provided the keynote talk at the SEMI Industry Strategy Symposium (ISS) this year, held Jan 12-15 in Half Moon Bay, CA. He said he believes the semiconductor industry might be facing a “Concorde”…
50 years ago: January 1964
In January of 1964, only six years after Kilby’s invention of the integrated circuit, it was clear that microelectronics were here to stay, and were rapidly changing the shape of the electronics industry. In the Editorial in the January 1964 issue, Editor Sam Marshall writes that estimates for the market for microelectronics in 1964 “vary between 25 and 50 million dollars.” In 2013, the market exceeded $300 billion.
Is It Time for A Roadmap for Equipment and Materials?
There is plenty of information that a savvy supplier can pull from the ITRS about what technology is needed and what the market demand might look like. But it’s time to take it to the next step.
Challenges of 10nm and 7nm CMOS at IEDM
Process technology (including litho) and process integration remains the most critical factor in determining success moving forward.
Countdown to The ConFab 2014
We had our second conference call yesterday with advisory board of The ConFab (a special thanks to Lori Nye of Brewer Science who called in from Japan at 2:00 am her time. Above and Beyond the call of dutry!). The…
IEDM’s special focus session highlights diverse challenge
A special session at IEDM will feature presentations on many of today’s hot topics: memory, LEDs, silicon photonics, interposers, SOI finFETS and 450mm.
Progress in Intrachip Optical Interconnects and Silicon Photonics
In a keynote talk at The ConFab earlier this year, Samsung exec Yoon Woo (Y.W.) Lee. predicted that optical interconnects would soon be required.
