Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has announced that it will skip the 22nm manufacturing process node and move directly to a 20nm technology, and TSMC is expected...
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) is scheduled to enter trial production on its 22nm high performance process node in the third quarter of 2012, and then move to the...
Customers have turned more active in placing orders, according to Antonio Mesquida Kusters, Director of Market Intelligence for ASML. Citing predictions by research firms, Kusters...
IMEC, a Belgium-based research center in nanoelectronics and nanotechnology, and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) on October 6 jointly announced the extension of...
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) will maintain its plans to begin trial production on 18-inch wafers in 2012 despite a conservative outlook prevailing across most...
United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC) currently focuses its R&D on 28nm and 22nm processes and related key technologies as well as 18-inch wafers, according to company central...
Intel president and CEO Paul Otellini has displayed a silicon wafer containing its first working chips built on 22nm process technology. The 22nm test circuits include both SRAM memory...
KLA-Tencor has introduced the Teron 600-series reticle defect inspection system to address a major transition in mask design at the 2Xnm logic (3Xnm half-pitch memory) node. The new...
R&D expenses are estimated to equal 25% of KLA-Tencor's overall sales in 2009, with the expenditure mainly on the development of next-generation products for 3X/2Xnm and beyond...
The semiconductor industry has long been preoccupied with smaller transistors and larger silicon wafers, in its effort to meet the ever-increasing demands of consumer technology....
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has announced it will join a three-year program led by the CEA-Leti research institute on electron-beam (e-beam) maskless lithography...
IMEC, an Belgium-based nanoelectronics research center in nanoelectronics and nanotechnology, has signed an expanded research agreement with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company...
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has seen a delay in the delivery of 300mm multiple electron-beam (e-beam) maskless lithography equipment from Mapper Lithography...
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has said it is on track to increase manpower within its R&D and design service units by 30% and 15%, respectively, while proceeding...
Globalfoundries, the spin-off of AMD's former manufacturing operations, is working to build its customer base in Taiwan and Japan, according to company CEO Doug Grose. Grose, who...