10nm

June 25, 2018

Node-variant FinFET tweaks try to improve cost, performance

Foundries have taken aim at standard-cell track height and design-rule tweaks to try to improve the area efficiency and performance of derivative finFET processes.
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May 4, 2018

7nm process with EUV to feature at VLSI

Samsung Electronics will describe at the upcoming VLSI Symposia how its engineers have applied EUV to a variety of layers in a 7nm finFET process.
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June 21, 2017

Panels see congestion and resistance dominate the leading-edge node battle

Placement-aware synthesis and an array of post-layout recovery steps have helped drive up the clock speed and silicon utilization of a series high-end SoCs on leading-edge processes developed by customers of Synopsys' implementation tools.
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June 18, 2017

Samsung 7nm uses EUV and split fin widths to push speeds

EUV and fin optimization help build Samsung's upcoming 7nm process, the company discloses at the VLSI Technology Symposium.
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February 23, 2017

Ceva DSP multiplies execution units for MIMO 5G

Ceva's latest iteration of its XC architecture aims at the intensive DSP required for 5G basestations.
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January 9, 2017

VLSI Symposia issue calls for papers

Online paper submissions are now open for the 2017 Symposia on VLSI Technology and Circuits.
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October 10, 2016

Speeding up AMS design in the age of finFETs

STMicroelectronics, Samsung, GSI Technology and Synopsys talk about the challenges of doing AMS design on finFET processes.
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August 27, 2016

Creating a reference design flow for 10nm processes: video

Synopsys video details challenges of 10nm design and its collaboration with Samsung Semiconductor to build a full flow to address them.
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May 18, 2016

ARM completes multicore test chip on 10nm finFET

ARM says it has received test chips designed to check how well an SoC built around a 64bit multicore Cortex v8-A processor complex would work TSMC's upcoming 10nm FinFET process technology.
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April 7, 2016

SNUG 2016: Intel, TSMC, GloFo back post-finFET research at UC Berkeley

But project lead Chenming Hu, 'finFET's father', has also highlighted important changes in the funding landscape for university research.

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