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GlobalFoundries Unveils Roadmap for Next-Generation 5G Mmwave Applications
Oct 17, 2017GlobalFoundries of Santa Clara, CA, USA (one of the world’s largest semiconductor foundries, with more than 250 customers and operations in Singapore, Germany and the USA) has announced its vision and roadmap for a range of technology ...
Tags: semiconductor, wireless networks
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Imec Demos First Sub-10nm Germanium Gate-All-Around FETs
Jun 16, 2017At the 2017 Symposia on VLSI Technology and Circuits in Kyoto, Japan (5-8 June), nanoelectronics and photovoltaics research centre Imec of Leuven, Belgium unveiled new process improvements for next-generation devices. For the first time it ...
Tags: Imec, transistors
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Ultratech Receives Multiple Laser System Order
May 22, 2017Ultratech, a supplier of lithography, laser processing and inspection systems used to manufacture semiconductor devices and high-brightness LEDs (HBLEDs), as well as atomic layer deposition (ALD) systems, today announced that it has ...
Tags: laser spike, FinFETs
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Moore's Law and China's Fast-Growing IC Industry
Mar 20, 2017At Semicon China 2017, executives at chip giant Intel, IC packager Advanced Semiconductor Engineering, equipment vendors ASML, Lam Research and Tokyo Electron (TEL), and nano-electronics research institute Imec talked about innovation to ...
Tags: IC, Semiconductor, IC Industry
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Galaxy S8 Could Get Qualcomm's Powerful New Snapdragon 835 Chip
Nov 23, 2016Details about Qualcomm’s recently announced Snapdragon 835 chip have been leaked online, including information about what phones will feature the new processor. Information on the Snapdragon 835 has been posted to China’s ...
Tags: Snapdragon 835, Galaxy S8
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Market for 10nm Mobile Chips to Heat up in 2017
Nov 23, 2016Qualcomm, Samsung Electronics, MediaTek, Apple and Spreadtrum Communications are gearing up to roll out their 10nm mobile chips which will be shipped in smartphones during 2017. Qualcomm recently announced its 10nm mobile chips will be ...
Tags: Mobile Chips, Samsung
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Samsung's Galaxy S8 Could Get Huge Boost to Power or Battery Life
Oct 25, 2016Samsung’s Galaxy S8 has the potential to be way more powerful (or have a much better battery life) than its predecessor thanks to brand new chip technology. Starting today, Samsung is manufacturing the industry’s first chips ...
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Samsung Starts Industry's First Mass Production of System-on-Chip with 10-Nanometer FinFET Technology
Oct 25, 2016Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., a world leader in advanced semiconductor technology, today announced that it has commenced mass production of System-on-Chip (SoC) products with 10-nanometer (nm) FinFET technology for which would make it ...
Tags: FinFET Technology, Nanometer
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Samsung Mass Produces Industry's First Application Processor for Wearable Devices Built on 14-Nanometer FinFET Technology
Oct 13, 2016Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., a world leader in advanced semiconductor technology, today announced that it has begun mass production of the Exynos 7 Dual 7270. It is the first mobile application processor (AP) in the industry designed ...
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Samsung Mass Produces 14-Nanometer Exynos Processor with Full Connectivity Integration
Sep 29, 2016Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., a world leader in advanced semiconductor technology, today announced that it has begun mass production of Exynos 7 Quad 7570, the company’s newest mobile application processor (AP) built on 14-nanometer ...
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AppliedMicro, Macom and BrPhotonics Demo First 100Gb/s PAM-4 Single-Wavelength Solution Enabling 100Gb/s and 400Gb/s Connectivity in QSFP Transceivers
Sep 21, 2016Applied Micro Circuits Corp of Santa Clara, CA, USA (which provides silicon-based computing and connectivity solutions for next-generation cloud infrastructure and data centers), BrPhotonics (BrP) of Campinas-SP, Brazil (a joint venture ...
Tags: Applied Micro, BrP, MACOM
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RASIRC Renews Funding for ALD Research at UCSD
Sep 7, 2016RASIRC Inc of San Diego, CA, USA (whose products purify and deliver ultra-pure liquids and gases) has renewed its funding agreement with the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) for on-going semiconductor processing research. The gift ...
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Boosting Transconductance in Indium Gallium Arsenide finFETs
Sep 6, 2016Researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the USA have claimed record transconductance for III-V fin field-effect transistors (finFETs) when normalized according to fin width [Alon Vardi and Jesús A. del Alamo, ...
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Apple's iPhone 8 Chip Design Is Already Finalised
May 9, 2016The design for Apple’s A11 chip – the one intended for use on next year’s iPhone 8 – is already being finalised, apparently. That’s according to a report by technology industry news site DigiTimes, which ...
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More China Firms Developing Own ARM-Based Chips
Nov 29, 2015China-based ZTE has received a cash injection from the government enabling the company to accelerate the development of its own application processors, while Lenovo also intends to develop ARM-based chips in-house, according to industry ...
Tags: ARM-Based Chips, IC Industry