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Agere Systems to sell Madrid chip fabrication facility
July 26, 2001 - Allentown, PA - Agere Systems has signed a definitive agreement to sell its Madrid, Spain chip fabrication facility to BP, a leading global energy company. On July 4, 2001, BP announced it had agreed in principle to …
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Design and chip fabrication need to be linked
In the digital design world there have long been two camps, often separated geographically and rarely in contact with each other. One is the design camp, full of banks of workstations ablaze with color-coded chip layouts; the designers follow a set of design rules supplied by the fab to avoid such
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GigOptix-ramps-Thin-Film-Polymer-on-Silicon-optical-modulator-chip-fab-at-MEMS-foundry
… Innovative Micro Technology, Inc. (IMT) as its optical chip fabrication partner. GGOX is now in the process of transferring ..... modulator chips for telecom applications. The modulator chip fabrication process uses a production flow that is compatible …
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SIA to pick cancer study contractor by end of the year
… retrospective epidemiological cancer study among U.S. chip fabrication employees. The selection process will begin once ..... move forward with a study on cancer among U.S. chip fabrication employees, saying a contractor to conduct the study …
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IQE and II-VI Inc. launch 150mm GaN HEMT epi wafers on SiC substrates
… reduction, production capacity and yield improvement, as well as potential for insertion into a wider range of chip fabrication facilities. To date, commercial market penetration of GaN HEMTs has been limited by the higher cost of epitaxial …
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Cleanroom spending dominated by Asia for foreseeable future
… Company forecasts that in 2015, 78% of the world’s semiconductor cleanroom hardware purchases will be for Asian chip fabrication facilities, which will make 74% of the world's semiconductors. Memory storage and flat panel display manufacturing …
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MIT etches MEMS structures with glass stamp
… Fang says. The glass stamp technique is an alternative to electron-beam (e-beam) lithography for lab-on- chip fabrication . Fabricating a 6mm 2 pattern using e-beam litho typically takes half a day and would price them at $600 each, Fang …
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3D progress seen at SiP global summit
… interconnect wiring. They found the interposer was an excellent way to handle the 28nm chip low- k fragility. Chip fabrication , interposer fabrication and bumping is being done by TSMC. Chip bumping and module assembly is being done by Amkor …
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At 22nm, the focus is first order effects
… support these efforts, 3D process and device simulation (TCAD) is now required as a way to guide and optimize the chip fabrication process. An important example of the need for 3D TCAD simulation is in the process optimization of SRAM cells …
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Maskless lithography progress from the IMAGINE Workshop
… pattern collapse. In TSMC’s view, the next two key ML2 tool challenges are high-brightness cathode and blanker chip fabrication , although Chen said he considers these to be only engineering issues. TSMC is working very actively to establish …
