At the December 2021 IEDM conference (a conference for people who design advanced semiconductors), IBM announced it was turning transistors on their heads to keep Moore’s Law scaling alive. The new ...

Researchers at Purdue University have reported important progress in developing finFETs, a type of transistor that some say will eventually substitute the silicon-based kind because it allows ...

Chipmakers face a multitude of challenges in the fab at 10nm/7nm and beyond, but one technology that is typically under the radar is becoming especially difficult—metrology. Metrology, the art of ...

The IC industry entered the finFET era in 2011, when Intel leapfrogged the competition and rolled out the newfangled transistor technology at the 22nm node. Intel hopes to ramp up its ...

The semiconductor industry faces a major change in the way that ICs are made in order to keep improving performance and density, a change that has potential ramifications for design methodologies.

Since the inception of the integrated-circuit (IC) industry, design metrics such as performance, power, area, cost, and time-to-market have remained the same. In fact, Moore’s law is all about ...

TOKYO & NEW YORK & SUNNYVALE, Calif. – 16 Dec 2008: Toshiba Corporation (TOKYO:6502), IBM (NYSE: IBM), and AMD (NYSE:AMD) today announced that they have together developed a Static Random Access ...