Walden Rhines & His Affair with AI
In the last three years, starting from the third quarter of 2017 to be more accurate, all of a sudden…
Liquid Crystal Metasurfaces Used to Steer Beams
Lumotive, a Seattle-based, venture-backed startup, is unveiling Wednesday a lidar technology based on metamaterials, a relatively new and exotic technological…
Open-Source Silicon Highlights at Open Compute Project
Microsoft and partners released open-source RTL for a new data compression scheme, and Intel said that another effort may do…
Counterfeits Costing Semiconductor Industry Billions
Counterfeit components are anything but uncommon and probably, by all accounts, underreported.
Overcoming Edge Placement Error (EPE)
Edge placement error has emerged as a new challenge to good semiconductor yields, says an expert from Applied Materials who…
SPIE Conference Predicts Bumpy Chip Roadmap
The semiconductor roadmap could extend a decade to a 1-nm node or it could falter before the 3-nm node for…
Sri Lanka, An Emerging Electrical and Electronics Sector
The Electrical and Electronics Industry in Sri Lanka has grown over the past 40 years into a key industrial manufacturing…
U.S.-China Crisis: Repercussions for Chip Industry
As China-U.S. relations appear to deteriorate, we asked Ernst how his views on China have changed in recent years.
TSMC loses US$550 Million Due to Bad Photoresist
TSMC has been forced to update their first quarter guidance following the assessment of all the wafers affected by what…
China’s Chip Fab Capacity Catching North America
China, which is currently locked in a trade war with the U.S., has stated that it would pump more than…
Wafer Demand Bullish for 2019
Despite a decline in spending for leading-edge devices, the latest Semi Global 200mm Fab Outlook prepares for growing demand.
Trump Prioritises Artificial Intelligence
U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order directing U.S. federal agencies to prioritize investments in artificial intelligence R&D.
