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Wednesday 30 August 2023
SK Hynix accelerates high-NA DRAM development, with trial production set for 2024
After achieving breakthroughs in production technologies for high bandwidth memory (HBM) and 300-layer NAND flash chips, SK Hynix is accelerating the development of the next-generation...
Friday 30 June 2023
IMEC and ASML to develop High-NA EUV pilot line for sub-2nm process technology
Belgium-based Interuniversity Microelectronics Centre (IMEC), a world-renown research and innovation hub in nanoelectronics and digital technologies, signed an MOU on June 28 to intensify...
Monday 19 June 2023
Autonomy and regionalization jeopardize the "neutrality" underpinning chip industry growth
As geopolitical competition and the concept of national security gain a technological dimension, fueled by US-China rivalry and the post-pandemic supply chain disruption, semiconductors,...
Wednesday 17 May 2023
GF, Samsung, and TSMC join Imec's Sustainable Semiconductor Technologies & Systems program
Imec, the Belgium-based semiconductor research hub, announced on May 16 that GlobalFoundries, Samsung Electronics, and TSMC have joined its Sustainable Semiconductor Technologies...
Thursday 2 February 2023
Imec co-integrates high-quality SiN waveguide technology with its active silicon photonics platform
On January 31, Belgium-based semiconductor research hub Imec announced that it demonstrated co-integration of its high-quality silicon nitride waveguide technology with its silicon...
Thursday 26 January 2023
Japan chip development policy highlights security and revitalization
The Japanese government has set its semiconductor development policy based on two major principles - security and revitalization, shifting from relying entirely on domestic companies...
Monday 19 December 2022
New Japan chipmaker Rapidus faces challenges to mass produce 2nm chips by 2027
Japan's newly founded advanced chips manufacturing company Rapidus aims to develop 2nm chips mass production technology through cooperation with mainly the US and foray into the foundry...
Wednesday 7 December 2022
Imec to cooperate with Japan's Rapidus on 2nm technology
Belgium-based microelectronics research hub Imec has signed a Memorandum of Cooperation (MOC) with Japan's newly formed semiconductor champion Rapidus Corp.
Wednesday 9 November 2022
Reliance, HCL reportedly to invest in chip fab via ISMC
As the Indian government is keen to develop a semiconductor ecosystem amid its growing demand for electronics and the global supply chain relocation, big local conglomerates are reportedly...
Monday 7 November 2022
US foundry SkyWater announces progress in reshoring advanced packaging capability
US-based foundry SkyWater Technology has completed the first phase of its program to establish silicon interposer manufacturing, according to an announcement on November 3. The program,...
Thursday 8 September 2022
Chip industry seeks an ecosystem-wide solution as ESG catches up with Moore's Law
With traditional OSAT providers, IDMs and foundries like Intel, TSMC and ASE heading into advanced packaging technologies to tap the growing high performance computing market, concerns...
Friday 24 June 2022
Special budget needed to hasten quantum components production
Taiwan's national team for quantum technology development is facing difficulties in manufacturing quantum dots, quantum bits, control boards and photonic quantum bits, necessitating...
Monday 20 June 2022
Samsung eyeing closer ties with ASML, Imec
Samsung Electronics vice chairman Jay Y Lee's recent visits to both ASML in the Netherlands and Imec in Belgium have had industry observers believe that the Korea-based vendor is...
Wednesday 9 June 2021
Tokyo Electron to collaborate with imec-ASML joint high NA lab
Tokyo Electron has announced the company will introduce its leading-edge Coater/Developer to the imec-ASML joint high NA EUV research laboratory (joint high NA lab) in Veldhoven,...
Friday 10 July 2020
Imec, GF claim breakthrough in AI chip
Imec and Globalfoundries (GF) have jointly announced a hardware demonstration of a new artificial intelligence chip. Based on Imec's analog in memory computing (AiMC) architecture...