Author’s Note: This is the last in a series of 10 installments that explore certain fundamental truths about process control—defect inspection and metrology—for the semiconductor industry. Each article introduces one of the 10 fundamental truths and highlights its implications. Within this article we will use the term inspection to imply either defect inspection or a parametric measurement such as film thickness or critical dimension (CD). In the eighth installment1 in…
Semiconductors
Samsung Foundry Begins Partnership with Silvaco to Launch their Semiconductor IP Assets
Silvaco Inc., a supplier of EDA software and design IP, announced that the semiconductor design IP of Samsung Foundry is now marketed, licensed and supported through Silvaco Inc. The addition of Samsung production-proven design IP complements Silvaco’s existing SIPware™ IP products and solutions—embedded processors, wired interfaces, bus fabrics, peripheral controllers, cores for automotive, consumer and IoT/sensor applications. The initial offering of hard design IP is for the 14nm process node and is…
Metal nanoclusters can be used as semiconductors: Key properties observed for first time
Tiny nanoclusters of metal atoms – such as gold and silver – have properties which…
Samsung completes 5nm EUV development
Samsung Electronics makes major strides in EUV-based advanced nodes, including 7nm mass production and 6nm…
MagnaChip launches 28nm OLED DDIC for smartphone displays
MagnaChip Semiconductor Corporation, a designer and manufacturer of analog and mixed-signal semiconductor products, announced today…
Semiconductor photomask sales reach record high of $4B
Following a record-breaking 2017, worldwide semiconductor photomask sales set a new high of $4.04 billion…
NRL develops laser processing method to increase efficiency of optoelectronic devices
Scientists at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) discovered a new method to passivate defects…
2018 global semiconductor equipment sales jump to record $64.5B
Worldwide sales of semiconductor manufacturing equipment surged 14 percent from $56.62 billion in 2017 to…
Measurement of semiconductor material quality is now 100,000 times more sensitive
The enhanced power of the new measuring technique to characterize materials at scales much smaller…
