SEMI predicts strong 300mm growth to 2026
SEMI predicts 300mm capacity to grow to almost 10,000 wafers per month in 2026, up from 6,500 in 2021.
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MACOM to use GlobalFoundries 300mm SOI for PICs
MACOM has decided to use GlobalFoundries' 90nm SOI process on 300mm wafers to build higher-integration optical-switching devices for servers.
Switch to orbit mode boosts MRAM on 300mm wafers
Imec will at this week’s VLSI Symposia describe how it fabricated a form of magnetic memory suitable for use as a non-volatile cache onto 300mm wafers using CMOS-compatible processes.
Japan one year on: a need to rebuild exposed?
Beyond the earthquake, analyst IHS says the tragedy revealed systemic problems with an aging semiconductor fab base
System-level design meets power
In the world of power semiconductors, not many companies try to go fabless. The tradeoffs between design and process offer many more options for system-level design, argued Infineon's Reinhard Ploss at the ISS Europe conference.