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Nano-refrigeration Firm Takes A Cool Look At Wafers
News As a result, the two wafers must be conformal, or exact topographical duplicates. Cool Chips, a company that wants to bring refrigeration into the nanotechnology era, has opened a prototype manufacturing facility, a crucial step in the long road to...
[April 19, 2004, 14:00]
Nanotube Breakthrough Paves Path For Carbon Chips
News Researchers at Stanford University and the University of California at Berkeley have come up with a way to grow carbon nanotubes on silicon wafers and a method of testing them -- two significant steps that could help pave the way for carbon chips.
[January 8, 2004, 7:50]
Intel To Postpone Chip Factory In Ireland
News Intel will postpone opening a fabrication facility for making PC processors for a year due to current market conditions and the advent of larger, more economical wafers. These wafers, which have diameters measuring 300mm rather than 200mm, are far...
[December 13, 2000, 12:16]
Soitec Streamlines Supply Chain, Boosts Productivity With Oracle Applications, Projects IRR Of 23%
White Papers Soitec's wafers are used by companies such as IBM, AMD, Motorola, Philips and Seiko Epson to produce semiconductor chips for a variety of applications, including high-performance computers, mobile computers and phones, watches, and automotive...
[May 5, 2005, 0:00]
Intel Spices Up Silicon For Ultrafast Future
News By adding a wide range of other semiconductor materials to silicon wafers, Gargini said, designers will be able to dial in the atomic properties of the materials they work with. You can't make wafers from them," he said, "but you can deposit these...
[March 10, 2006, 14:15]
IBM Saves Chipmaking Kit From An Early Bath
News In immersion lithography, silicon wafers are immersed in purified water. The wafers are immersed in water because water bends light rays better than air, which in turn can lead to sharper resolution and smaller patterns.
[February 20, 2006, 15:35]
IBM Teams Up With Singapore's Chartered
News Under the deal, IBM Microelectronics and Singapore's Chartered, a foundry that makes chips on behalf of companies that don't have their own factories, will jointly develop manufacturing processes for 90-nanometre chips and 65-nanometre chips on...
[November 27, 2002, 9:15]
Chip Breaks Speed Record In Deep Freeze
News Adding germanium, however, increases the price of producing wafers and chips that come out of the wafers, so SiGe chips are typically only found in a few select markets. IBM and Georgia Tech have coaxed a chip to run at 500GHz, a record for a...
[June 20, 2006, 9:15]
AMD To Open Third Processor Factory In 2004
News Unlike AMD's current microprocessor fabs in Austin, Texas, and Dresden, Germany, the plant will be used to process chips out of 300mm diameter wafers. The 300mm wafers, larger than the 200mm wafers used throughout the industry today, will allow...
[January 9, 2001, 8:47]
Intel Readies 2.4GHz Xeon
News Along with being faster than existing Xeons, the new chip will be the first Xeon manufactured on wafers with 300-millimeter diameters. More than twice as many chips can be produced from these wafers than standard 200-millimeter wafers for roughly...
[April 23, 2002, 9:03]
Barrett: Chips With Everything
News Chips produced on these larger wafers cost about 30 percent less to make and more than twice as many can be produced at once. On Tuesday, Intel announced it will convert Fab 12 in Chandler, Arizona, from processing wafers with 200-millimeter...
[February 19, 2003, 11:25]
Inside Intel's Dothan review
Reviews Dothan chips are produced on 300mm rather than 200mm wafers, delivering significant economies of scale. Inside, Dothan is the first mobile processor to be produced, like its desktop Prescott counterpart, using Intel's new 90nm process and the first...
[May 10, 2004, 8:20]
Molecules Draw Straight Line
News Currently, creating circuits on silicon chips involves several hundred different procedures, including coating the wafers with metallic vapours, printing circuit patterns that have been shrunk to microscopic dimensions onto wafer surfaces, and...
[July 24, 2003, 7:54]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Of course, shrinking circuit size also makes your circuits faster and consume less power, while bigger wafers don't do anything but make more chips. Still, Intel's announcement that it's gone from 200mm wafers to 300mm is just as important for...
[April 8, 2001, 22:20]
Intel, AMD Neck And Neck On Chip Costs
News They don't have the ability to spend money (on new factories) at the same rate as Intel" -- new factories that would allow AMD to produce larger wafers. Approximately 2.25 more chips can be popped out of one of these wafers than can be produced...
[May 16, 2002, 14:26]
Applied Materials Polishes Black Diamond
News Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing qualified the technology on its 130-nanometre manufacturing process and shipped 10,000 wafers containing the technology last year, according to Chuck Byers, a spokesman for TSMC.
[February 5, 2004, 8:00]
TI To Upgrade UltraSparc Manufacturing
News Sun's latest top-end chips, 1.05GHz products used in workstations, currently are manufactured from wafers 200 millimetres in diameter at TI's Kilby plant. TI announced on Wednesday that it has begun making 1.05GHz chips from 300mm wafers at its...
[July 18, 2002, 8:24]
Intel Uplifted By New Chip Plans
News By the end of the year, Intel hopes to have six factories making chips on 300-millimeter wafers, which it says will lower its manufacturing costs about 35 percent. The move to larger 300-millimeter wafers, the basic unit of chip production, allows...
[April 26, 2002, 8:34]
Dynamic RAM Readies For Rebound
News IDC predicts that increases in capacity, brought on by the transition to 12-inch wafers, will lead to an oversupply and thus hurt revenue in 2006 and 2007. Like other chipmakers, DRAM companies have begun shifting the size of wafers -- silicon...
[December 18, 2003, 11:00]
Chipmakers Join Forces On Nano Research
News Another aim of the project will be to allow the new chips to be cut from 300-millimeter wafers. Compared with 200mm wafers in current use, 300mm wafers allow chipmakers to produce about 2.5 times more chips per wafer, increasing production volume...
[July 30, 2002, 13:14]
