Posts Tagged «fabs»
How combining cobalt and copper could improve chip yields, boost performance May 14, 2014 at 3:34 pm
Applied Materials has found a new way to scale interconnects to smaller process geometries without compromising their effectiveness. It turns out a cobalt sheath can dramatically improve reliability at smaller process geometries.
Intel pumps up its foundry business, might snatch Apple’s SoCs away from Samsung March 7, 2013 at 9:48 am
With slowing revenues from the PC sector, slow progress into the mobile market, and excess capacity on its industry-leading production lines, Intel is set to move into the foundry business in a big way — possibly by stealing Apple’s mobile chip business away from Samsung.
MIT creates self-assembling 3D nanostructures, could be the future of computer chips June 8, 2012 at 10:09 am
While self-assembling structures have been made from polymers before, this is the first time that multi-layer, configurable layouts have been created, opening up the path to self-assembled computer chips.
Deliberate excellence: Why Intel leads the world in semiconductor manufacturing May 1, 2012 at 10:00 am
Intel’s fabrication facilities are generally regarded as the best in the world, but discussions of why that’s so are few and far between. We spoke to Intel Technical Fellow Mark Bohr to gain insight on what keeps the company’s facilities on the cutting edge.