March 17, 2015
Foundry veteran Simon Yang told Semicon China while things are looking up the country cannot count on ‘traditional’ methods or advantages if it's to be a major chipmaker.
December 16, 2014
The International Electron Device Meeting (IEDM) has once again provided a chance for the major chipmakers to go head-to-head with their latest processes - this time with finFETs.
October 20, 2014
GlobalFoundries is to acquire IBM's fabs in a deal that sees the server maker pay the foundry $1.5bn over five years and agree to exclusivity to 10nm.
July 2, 2014
STMicroelectronics is using the OpenPDK standard from Si2 to speed up the production and delivery of process design kits (PDKs) and asks for wider adoption by foundries.
June 20, 2014
At the VLSI Technology Symposium a team led by STMicroelectronics described the techniques used for the upcoming 14nm FD-SOI to boost speed and density over the 28nm version.
June 13, 2014
Panel discusses Moore's law scaling beyond the 14nm node to 5nm, where economic, device, interconnect, materials, lithography and design issues abound
June 9, 2014
Can applications provide useful input for verification? They can but not when run straight out of the box, panelists at DAC 2014 said.
April 15, 2014
But some research and process collaboration is set to continue in the background as Samsung, GlobalFoundries and IBM chart their own priorities.
October 11, 2013
The Indian government will meet up to a quarter of initial capital costs for a foundry capable of nodes up to 45nm and 40,000 wafer starts per month at 300mm.
August 12, 2013
Taking place in Chelmsford, MA on 27 August, the conference will feature user-authored papers, tutorials, a designer expo and keynotes from Cadence and IBM.