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Chip Industry Week In Review
[Podcast version is here.] TSMC said it will produce 30% of its leading-edge chips in Arizona when all six of its fabs are operational, a total investment of $165 billion, Axios reported. In its latest...
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Chip Industry Week in Review
To listen to the podcast version, click here. TSMC unveiled an unusually detailed roadmap at this week’s North America Technology Symposium, including future architectures for 3D-ICs for...
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E-Beam Inspection Proves Essential For Advanced Nodes
Electron-beam inspection is proving to be indispensable for finding critical defects at sub-5nm dimensions. The challenge now is how to speed up the process to make it economically palatable to fabs....
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Chip Industry Week in Review
Newly proposed U.S. legislation called the Chip Security Act would use location verification tracking as a tool to help combat chip smuggling. This follows a report by the Economist that showed Taiwan...
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Photomask Japan 2025: A Strong Signal For The Future Of Our Industry
Photomask Japan (PMJ) 2025 was, without a doubt, the most exciting edition I’ve attended in recent years. From a surge in attendance to a packed agenda full of technical depth and forward-looking...
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InGaOx GAA transistor Researchers from the University of Tokyo created a gate-all-around transistor made from gallium-doped indium oxide (InGaOx). Doping indium oxide with gallium suppressed oxygen...
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High-Quality Data Needed To Better Utilize Fab Data Streams
Fab operations have wrestled with big data management issues for decades. Standards help, but only if sufficient attention to detail is taken during collection. Semiconductor wafer manufaFcturing...
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Chip Industry Week in Review
Texas Instruments will invest more than $60 billion to build and expand seven semiconductor fabs in Texas and Utah, supporting more than 60,000 U.S. jobs. Chinese automakers — including SAIC Motor,...
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Chip Industry Week in Review
Apple plans to increase its U.S. investment by an additional $100 billion over four years, which includes the launch of an advanced manufacturing supply chain program, spurring a number of related chip...
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Chip Industry Week in Review
Lines are blurring between government and industry: On the heels of last week’s resignation demand, Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan met with President Trump on Monday, with the President later saying, “The...
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