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Editorial Science and technology’s excellent adventure?
As semiconductor processing nears physical limits, manipulating technology to push ever further gets steadily more challenging.
World News BUSINESS TRENDS
Chinese semiconductor fab capital expenditures have whipsawed over the past three years, but next year Chinese fab capex is expected to be flat, and will extend to a relatively moderate 24.
Tech News New materials take a “BiTe” out of high-end CPU hot spots
Hot-spots resulting from nonuniform power dissipation over a chip are the bane of manufacturers of high-performance ICs such as CPUs, graphics chips, and DSPsand as CMOS devices continue to scale and total power dissipation increases, these hot-spots will only become more pronounced.
Tech News Healthy photomask industry confronts data, RET challenges
The long-suffering mask making industry is presently in fine shape, according to experts at the 26th Annual BACUS Symposium on Photomask Technology in Monterey, CA, Sept.
Tap Wafer-level packaging boosts yields of chip-on-board image sensors
Chip-on-board (COB) is the most dominant assembly process used to build over a million camera modules each day of the year.
Product News Product news
The Candela Optical Surface Analyzer 6300 series provides full surface disk topography metrology in both radial and circumferential directions for data storage substrates and finished media.
Industry Forum Optical film-thickness metrology enters the mix-and-match era
Optical film measurement has evolved from manual offline analytical lab instruments to fully automated inline tools loaded with a wide array of measurement capabilities through adding and merging more optics and algorithms while retaining predecessors.
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