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Projected 23% CAGR in MEMS microphone market attracts crowd of entrants
SEMICON West preview: Companies are scrambling for a piece of the growing market of MEMS microphones for mobile phones, where applications are widening and demands are getting more sophisticated.
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CEA-Leti Annual Review: The heart of Europe's semiconductor industry challenges
At CEA-Leti's Annual Review, Leti CEO Laurent Malier noted how the important role that research and technology organizations should play in strengthening industry in Europe, and how their roles differ from groups in other regions.
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CEA-Leti Annual Review: IDMs' top 3 challenges
At CEA-Leti's Annual Review, STMicroelectronics CTO Jean-Marc Chery reviewed the challenges facing IDM companies focused on SoC markets, and the three primary challenges for IDMs: FinFETs, EUV lithography, and 450mm.
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Semiconductor gases bounce back, wet chemicals on their way
Semiconductor wet chemicals saw 13% growth year-over-year in 2010, while the electronics fab gasses market grew 16%, according to 2 new reports from Techcet Group.
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AMAT debuts DRAM fab tools for denser transistors
Applied Materials debuted 3 systems for next-generation DRAM chip manufacturing: the Applied Centura DPN HDTM system to improve the gate insulator scaling; the Applied Endura HAR Cobalt PVD system for high-aspect-ratio contact structures; and the Applied Endura Versa XLR W PVD system for reduced ...
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Extending optical lithography with complementary e-beam lithography
David Lam summarizes how the industry does not have to "throw out" optical lithography as it proceeds to more advanced nodes -- complementary e-beam lithography (CEBL) is part of the overall solution, "complementary lithography," that can overcome the resolution limitations of 193i technology.
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FDSOI improves CMOS scalability, speed, power consumption at 11nm
Leti has demonstrated the ability of fully depleted silicon on insulator (FDSOI) technology to improve CMOS scalability down to the 11nm node, together with an associated variability reduction of the electrical characteristics by a factor of two compared to regular technologies.
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Power management ICs for green energy applications
Executive Overview The power management IC (PMIC) has become a critical component in virtually every electronics product today. Much of this demand is being fueled by the global transition to green energy solutions. Highlighted will be a 0.18m BCDMOS process with 30V LDMOS transistors having an Rsp
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World News
BUSINESS TRENDS VLSI tool champs prove customer service matters VLSI Research's out with its annual "Best supplier" rankings, and there's a tie atop the leaderboard. Nine-time champ Varian Semi. Equip. Assoc. and first-timer Novellus both scored 8.18 in the "large supplier" category of chipmaking
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SEMICON West 2011, Day 1: SOI vs. FinFET, ReRAM vs. 3D NAND, and lots of video data
The TechXPOT session on Emerging Architectures for Logic and Memory provided a number of interesting perspectives on some of the big transitions in device technologies, which seem to be arriving at an ever-increasing pace, reports Olov Karlsson from Intermolecular.
