Intel’s Chief Engineering Officer Venkata (Murthy) Renduchintala is to leave on August 3rd and the company’s process development will now be headed by Ann Kelleher (pictured). Last week it was revealed that the 7nm process was a year behind schedule. Two years ago, Intel’s process guru Mark Bohr left after the 10nm process was running several years late. Before joining ...
TSMC is today committing to source 100% renewable electricity globally as part of RE100 – a global initiative led by international non-profit the Climate Group. RE100 has the support of over 240 global businesses switching to 100% renewable power. TSMC is the first semiconductor manufacturer to join RE100. ”As companies pursue growth, they also must take environmentally friendly action. TSMC is ...
Intel said yesterday that its 7nm process is six months behind schedule. The company is looking at pushing more wafers out to foundry. “We’re going to be pretty pragmatic about if and when we should be making stuff inside or making outside, and making sure that we have optionality to build internally, mix and match inside and outside, or go ...
LG Electronics’ latest commercial solar panel can reach an efficiency of 21.4%. It is the LG370N1C-N5, styled a ‘premium’ product by the company – an n-type monocrystalline panel producing 370W max from its 1.7 x 1m surface (irradiance 1,000W/m2, 25°C, 1.5AM). Open-circuit under the same illumination it delivers 41.8V, and short-circuit the figure is 10.92A. Maximum power is achieved at 35.8V ...
Last week, it was announced that Cambridge GaN Devices (CGD) will lead a €10.3m European project (‘GaNext’) to develop fast-switching intelligent GaN power modules. But who is this small UK company that has been trusted to lead a consortium that includes semiconductor giant Infineon? The answer is: a fabless GaN power transistor maker built on technology invented at the University of ...
Samsung Foundry has low yields on its EUV 5nm process which could delay Qualcomm’s latest chip-sets, reports Digitimes. However Samsung had not expected to get to get ASML’s EUV equipment for the 5nm line installed until the end of June, so the process is at a very early stage. It had not been thought that Samsung would be in volume production ...
Google is offering to fab open-source chip designs for free. They have to be on 130nm and quantities are limited to 100 ICs. In a FOSSi (Free and Open Source Silicon) Dial-Up talk, Tim Ansell of Google announced SkyWater PDK, the first manufacturable, open source process design kit. The PDK allows you to produce an IC to be manufactured by ...
With any new SoC project, there are more things to go wrong than ever imagined during the optimistic early phase of defining the product, writes Ron Press, of Mentor, a Siemens Business. However, the semiconductor industry continues to deliver incredible advances in IC capabilities. The most successful companies continually refine and optimize all aspects of chip design and fabrication, including ...
In the last decade, an exciting dynamic is propelling manufacturing towards 3D printing, or additive manufacturing (AM), writes Bill Davis of Siemens Digital Industries Software, discussing the digital twin. From a machining perspective, additive manufacturing enables designers to consolidate components, leading to less expensive parts, superior reliability, increased durability, and creative design. Also, from a smart manufacturing perspective, a comprehensive ...
Globalfoundries has filed papers to officially close its FD-SOI fab in Chengdu, China and lay off its 74 employees. GloFo and the town of Chengdu had a jv to build a $10 billion 300mm fab for 22nm FD-SOI. The plan was to begin production of mainstream process technologies in 2018 and then focus on manufacturing 22FD-SOI, with volume production expected to ...
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