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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]
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]
Molecules draw straight line
News Researchers at the University of Wisconsin have come up with a way to organise molecules through lithography, which is the science of "drawing" chip circuits. The MRSEC team managed to draw two different types of alternating lines into silicon...
[July 24, 2003, 7:54]
Intel uses EUV tool to speed chips
News Lenses, used on current lithography machines, would distort patterns this small. 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...
[April 23, 2002, 8:22]
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]
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]
IBM saves chipmaking kit from an early bath
News The breakthrough revolves around an enhanced, experimental version of immersion lithography. In immersion lithography, silicon wafers are immersed in purified water. Immersion lithography will start getting used commercially in the relatively near...
[February 20, 2006, 15:35]
Design Methods for Attaining IBM System z9 Processor Cycle-Time Goals
White Papers In particular, although the processor-subsystem cycle-time improvement was driven primarily by the technology migration from CMOS 9S (130-nm lithography) for the prior IBM System z990 to CMOS 10S0 (90-nm lithography) for the new system, the...
[May 26, 2007, 1:00]
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]
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]
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]
IBM hopes to use DNA to build chips
News Our goal is to use these structures as bread boards on which to assemble carbon nanotubes, silicon nanowires, quantum dots," said Greg Wallraff, an IBM scientist and a lithography and materials expert working on the project.
[February 20, 2008, 17:33]
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]
'Tennis-shoe glue' sticks circuits to chips
News If the process can eventually be used in mass production, it could help solve one of the significant problems facing semiconductor manufacturers: the cost and complexity of lithography. Advances in lithography are often subject to lengthy delays...
[December 8, 2003, 7:55]
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]
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]
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]
Intel to unveil nanotech plans
News With current chipmaking methods, each transistor has to be precisely laid down through lithography, a time-consuming process that costs billions of dollars. Subsequently, the decade will see the emergence of new types of packaging that will solve...
[September 4, 2002, 13:48]
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]
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]
