From quartz sand to silicon wafers, the manufacturing process is critical for achieving the purity and quality needed for advanced semiconductor applications.

In the fast-paced world of semiconductor manufacturing, achieving higher yields and reducing costs are constant challenges. Ideally, yield should only be impacted by unavoidable defects when ...

Semiconductor manufacturing is the foundation for technologies ranging from smartphones and electric vehicles to artificial intelligence and cloud computing. The process demands extreme precision in ...

Explore how Sandra Shaji, a Samsung engineering leader, is pioneering DTCO infrastructure for sub-2nm semiconductor design.

TL;DR: Samsung Electronics has begun developing its next-generation 1nm process node, termed the "dream semiconductor process," requiring new technologies and High-NA EUV lithography. Mass production ...

A team of Chinese researchers has built a ferroelectric transistor with a gate length of just 1 nanometer that runs on 0.6 ...

Hidden semiconductor defects often pass inspection but fail later in operation. Learn how latent defects form, evade ...

Long and complex hiring cycles As compared to software hiring, semiconductor recruitment cannot rely on rapid technical ...

As the semiconductor industry moves to smaller scales, it must overcome several technical challenges. In 2025, we expect three key developments to make headlines: Gate-All-Around transistor designs, ...

When contamination defects surface in advanced nodes, the root cause often spans tools, materials, and handling. This piece outlines how defect mapping, TEM, and SPC data converge to prove causation.

“We have 600 petabytes of data across Intel,” said Aziz Safa, corporate VP & GM Intel Foundry Automation at the recent PDF Solutions Users Conference. “The challenge is to be able to run algorithms on ...