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Chipmakers on fast track to 10GHz
News The lithography technique now used, called deep ultraviolet, will suffice for one or two more generations of manufacturing processes, down to chip features the size of 100 nanometers, or one-tenth of a micron.
[January 16, 2001, 14:45]
Intel faces delays to 0.13 micron move
News As PC chips get ever smaller, advanced lithography techniques and emerging chip technologies such as IBM's development of carbon-based nanotubes are becoming more important to the chip industry's rush to double chip power every 18 months -- the...
[April 30, 2001, 13:08]
Intel uses EUV tool to speed chips
News The new tool uses Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography (EUV) to print extremely small circuit patterns on chips, resulting in smaller features that let chipmakers pack many more transistors onto their semiconductors.
[April 23, 2002, 8:22]
Coalition shows off process for faster chips
News Extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography, showcased at a press conference at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory on Wednesday, will allow chip manufacturers to "draw" circuits as small as 10 nanometres wide.
[April 12, 2001, 13:42]
Intel draws chips with extreme UV
News Intel will use the EUV lithography tool -- which "draws" lines on silicon wafers that eventually become metal circuits -- to help refine a new manufacturing process that it expects to adopt during 2009.
[August 2, 2004, 8:30]
Intel: One step closer to 10GHz
News DUV lithography uses light with a wavelength of 248 nanometers that passes through the photomask, printing an image of the chip on silicon. The chipmaker announced Thursday that it has delivered the first standard-format photomasks for use with...
[March 9, 2001, 8:38]
Merger approval paves way for faster chips
News The US government has approved the acquisition of Silicon Valley Group by the Netherlands' ASM Lithography, a deal which will create the world's largest supplier of semiconductor manufacturing tools and which could have far-reaching consequences...
[May 3, 2001, 13:06]
Chip designers' Dream Team: 10GHz or bust
News EUV lithography works in much the same way, except that we have to use a different wavelength of light and we need to use different lenses. Lithography is a process of transferring circuit geometries to the silicon surface.
[February 15, 2001, 14:36]
Stakes get higher for chip gear
News As the customers consolidate, it will exacerbate the up and down cycles," said Robert Atkins, chief executive of Cymer, which specialises in light sources for the lithography machines used to "draw" circuits onto chips.
[July 24, 2002, 6:27]
Moore's Law on course for another two years
News However, it appears that extreme ultraviolet lithography, a future chipmaking technology championed by Intel, may get delayed. One clear part of the process, however, is that Intel will use dry, or standard, lithography techniques for 45nm chips.
[January 26, 2006, 9:15]
Intel puts Tualatin chips on launch pad
News Intel's manufacturing plans have been impacted this year by delays by SVG Lithography in providing the lithography equipment to be used in the transition. Intel is set to launch a new version of its mobile Pentium III chip, code-named Tualatin, on...
[July 26, 2001, 11:30]
IDF: Where no chip has gone before
News Sometime in the decade, Extreme Ultraviolet (EUV) lithography will replace conventional lithography. For one thing, lithography, the science of printing circuit patterns onto chips, will have to change.
[September 13, 2002, 7:46]
IBM thinks big about nanotechnology
News Microprocessors and related gear will not only get smaller and more powerful -- for instance, terabits of storage will fit into devices the size of a wristwatch, said Thies -- but they will also become far less expensive to manufacture because...
[May 16, 2002, 10:07]
AMD and IBM expand alliance
News The two also will also expand their cooperation to include developing new transistors, interconnects (the wires that connect transistors), lithography and packaging. The two companies, along with Micron and Infineon, are also part of a $580m...
[August 16, 2005, 10:00]
Intel to reveal chip-packing breakthrough
News These layers will be applied through the similar, although less advanced, lithography and etching techniques used to produce the main chip. This gives Intel a chance to use lithography tools that are much coarser than you can use with...
[October 8, 2001, 10:06]
Celebrating 60 years of transistors
News Lithography, the technique exploited to draw circuits, was supposed to hit a wall at one micron, and then at 250-nanometere manufacturing. That's because, some people theorised, it would be impossible to draw circuits smaller than the wavelength of...
[December 17, 2007, 7:33]
HP introduces new chip mould
News Wei Wu, an HP Labs researcher, and Bo Pi, chief executive of Nanolithosystems, examine an imprint lithography tool Chipmakers are notoriously conservative when it comes to adopting new lithography techniques.
[May 2, 2007, 10:38]
Chipmakers' capital spend signposts recovery
News This includes new lithography tools, which are devices used during manufacturing to map out the features inside chips. After years of cutting budgets, chipmakers will spend more on building facilities in 2003 -- an increase that could benefit chip...
[July 11, 2003, 7:35]
IBM taking Moore's Law by the horns
News V-Groove, in addition to lithography techniques, uses chemicals to create an anisotropic chemical reaction. New technology breakthroughs from IBM Research promise to extend the reach of Moore's Law, the chip industry's most closely held measure of...
[August 11, 2000, 15:03]
There's life in the old law yet, says Moore
News I remember we didn't think we could go beyond one micron because of optical lithography," Moore said, referring to an obstacle overcome in the early '90s. Moore's Law postulates that the number of transistors on a chip doubles every two years.
[July 10, 2002, 10:46]
