- Watch your step: IC technology and tools face economic hurdles
The semiconductor industry is unique in having a blueprint for development that has proved accurate for 39 years. In 1965, Electronics magazine asked Gordon Moore, PhD, a founder of Intel Corp and then director of the research-and-development laboratories at Fairchild Semiconductor to write an article discussing the future of semiconductor ......
- Nanotech Bolsters Semiconductor Manufacturing — Gradually
Paradoxically, in an industry that thrives on advanced technology, "change" is a pestilential concept to be avoided at all costs. Only when the semiconductor engineer finds that further workarounds are impossible, and that only a major alteration will allow passage into the next design node, will what today is termed ......
- 2004 Editors' Choice Best Product Awards
Each year, Semiconductor International honors the industry's suppliers with the Editors' Choice Best Product Awards for proven products that exemplify excellence in semiconductor manufacturing. The editors at Semiconductor International recognize both front- and back-end semiconductor manufacturing products that advance the assembly, manufacturability, quality control, inspection and testing of devices, as ......
- From test equipment to consumer gadgets
With the consumer electronics chip market estimated to have grown at more than 25 percent over the last year, many semiconductor companies have refocused themselves to try to catch a piece of the action. Few seem to be doing quite as big a makeover, however, as the semiconductor division of ......
- In Situ Particle Detection for Pre-Metal Sputter Etch
Particle control during wafer processing continues to be a critical factor in the successful production of semiconductors. Although cleanroom particle control has matured with the implementation of fully automated wafer handling systems, the major source of yield-limiting particle events — the actual wafer processing environment — continues to create particle ......
- Experimental study on input and bottleneck scheduling
for a semiconductor fabrication line.
********** Young Hoon Lee (1) Jongkwan Park (1) Sooyoung Kim (2) In semiconductor manufacturing, the key production criteria are a short cycle time and the maximization of the production capacity. It is known that the production capacity mainly depends on the bottleneck machines in the photolithography processes used in the ......
- Agilent Exits Semis
Agilent Technologies Inc. today announced its plans to exit the semiconductor business. The company laid out a series of actions that will bring it back to its roots as a pure-play global measurement powerhouse, which, Agilent believes, will create tangible value for its shareholders. The problem, according to Jack Trautman, ......