finFET

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

Machine learning, smarter cars, and the infrastructure to support a sixfold increase in IoT and edge devices have helped push up the number of teams doing finFET designs to more than 100, according to Tom Beckley of Cadence.

Among the papers at this year's VLSI Symposia in Hawaii in June, Samsung will describe a 7nm CMOS process that uses EUV lithography to tighten up device features on minimum-pitch interconnects.

What will 3D integration look like? IEDM 2016 explored some of the options ranging from IoT sensors to advanced logic.

At the 62nd annual IEDM taking place in early December two of the leading groups in process development will take the wraps off their 7nm finFET technologies.

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

DTCO work by GlobalFoundries and Qualcomm reported at VLSI Symposia shows the need to minimize fin counts in future finFET processes.

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.

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

Synopsys is updating its custom design tools to make working with finFET based processes easier.