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Intel Uses EUV Tool To Speed Chips
News The use of EUV will allow us to keep on the Moore's Law path with a new technology generation every two years," Peter Silverman, director of lithography capital equipment development at Intel, said Monday.
[April 23, 2002, 8:22]
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 Faces Delays To 0.13 Micron Move
News Last week SVG Lithography, based in Connecticut in the US, told industry journal Semiconductor Business News it would delay shipments of its Micrascan V 193-nanometer wavelength lithography system by three to four months.
[April 30, 2001, 13:08]
Moore's Law On Course For Another Two Years
News One clear part of the process, however, is that Intel will use dry, or standard, lithography techniques for 45nm chips. According to Intel, extreme ultraviolet lithography is "more likely for 22nm" manufacturing, which starts in 2011.
[January 26, 2006, 9:15]
Chipmakers On Fast Track To 10GHz
News Advances such as this with next-generation lithography processes are vital to chipmakers such as Intel and Advanced Micro Devices, as EUV is the method by which they plan to continue boosting chip speeds in coming years.
[January 16, 2001, 14:45]
Merger Approval Paves Way For Faster Chips
News The next-generation lithography technique chosen by Intel, extreme ultraviolet (EUV), will allow the manufacture of chips with geometry of 0.07 microns and below, and running at 10GHz and faster. The US government has approved the acquisition of...
[May 3, 2001, 13:06]
Intel: One Step Closer To 10GHz
News The chipmaker announced Thursday that it has delivered the first standard-format photomasks for use with Extreme Ultraviolet (EUV) lithography. Because of EUV's relatively smooth road to development, most industry experts believe the technology...
[March 9, 2001, 8:38]
Coalition Shows Off Process For Faster Chips
News Lithography has been one of the limiting factors of our industry," said Craig Barrett, chief executive officer of Intel, one of the primary members of the EUV LLC coalition. Extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography, showcased at a press conference at...
[April 12, 2001, 13:42]
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]
The Problems Of Processor Manufacture
News Are you going to continue to be able to use dry lithography on future processes? IBM has recently announced it is using immersion lithography, where chips are immersed in a fluid that bends laser light to get smaller feature sizes.
[March 10, 2006, 17:05]
IDF: Where No Chip Has Gone Before
News For one thing, lithography, the science of printing circuit patterns onto chips, will have to change. Sometime in the decade, Extreme Ultraviolet (EUV) lithography will replace conventional lithography.
[September 13, 2002, 7:46]
Semi Equipment Makers Merge In $1.6bn Deal
News Dutch semiconductor equipment maker ASM Lithography Holding will acquire rival Silicon Valley Group in a stock swap worth $1.6bn (£1bn). The companies said the deal, which would create the largest provider of lithography equipment to the...
[October 2, 2000, 12:58]
Intel To Reveal Chip-packing Breakthrough
News This gives Intel a chance to use lithography tools that are much coarser than you can use with microprocessors," which let the chipmaker recycle old equipment, Brookwood said. As a result, packaging research ranks up with the company's work on...
[October 8, 2001, 10:06]
IBM Saves Chipmaking Kit From An Early Bath
News In the past decade, Intel — along with AMD and to a lesser extent IBM — has promoted extreme ultraviolet lithography (EUV). The breakthrough revolves around an enhanced, experimental version of immersion lithography.
[February 20, 2006, 15:35]
Moore's Law To Roll On For Another Decade
News Progress in lithography, the science of "drawing" circuits on chips, will also have to be made. Extreme Ultraviolet (EUV) lithography uses light with much smaller wavelengths and will start to come onto the market in 2007.
[February 11, 2003, 7:59]
Intel To Unveil Nanotech Plans
News Subsequently, the decade will see the emergence of new types of packaging that will solve the problem of channeling substantial amounts of power into small chips, the use of optical technology inside computers and the emergence of Extreme...
[September 4, 2002, 13:48]
Intel May Start Making Chips In China
News These controls have put limits on what equipment can be brought into the country from the US, and currently extend to lithography equipment capable of producing features smaller than 180nm, according to a list of controlled equipment on a website...
[March 14, 2007, 9:07]
UMC Produces First 45nm SRAM
News UMC, the second largest supplier of integrated circuits in the world, says the new chips use its own logic process with immersion lithography for its 12 layers. Immersion lithography is used to enhance resolution by putting a liquid medium between...
[November 20, 2006, 23:00]
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. The doubling will slow down a bit but continue to chug along, said Gordon Moore, the law's...
[July 10, 2002, 10:46]
IBM Taking Moore's Law By The Horns
News V-Groove, in addition to lithography techniques, uses chemicals to create an anisotropic chemical reaction. Moore's Law, an observation of Intel cofounder Gordon Moore, states that the number of transistors in a processor will double every 24 months.
[August 11, 2000, 15:03]
