The Chip Shots blog channels the observations of Fabtech's Senior Contributing Editor from -- U.S., Tom Cheyney, a 20-year veteran of semiconductor and advanced micro/nanoelectronics trade journalism. Tom was editor in chief of MICRO (the original home of Chip Shots) until it ceased publication in July 2006; he also serves as Senior Contributing Editor for Small Times. Tom calls Los Angeles home.
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Dec 14, 2007 at 08:13 AM |
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The Churchill Hotel may not be the newest or trendiest hotel in Washington, DC, but it does have a certain air of old-school class, making it a fitting site for Chipworks' Dick James now-becoming-annual (and always entertaining) "Ongoing History of Strain" invite-only presentation at IEDM.Write Comment (0 comments) |
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Dec 13, 2007 at 01:29 PM |
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One recurring front-end-of-line process theme from this week's IEDM was the critical importance of advanced, next-gen annealing in the ability to achieve the junction depth scaling needed for sub-45-nm technologies.Write Comment (0 comments) |
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Dec 11, 2007 at 02:01 PM |
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No single International Electron Devices meeting (IEDM) paper was more eagerly anticipated---or cynically discounted---as Intel's morning presentation on the Big Kahuna's Moore's Law saving, production-worthy 45-nm logic technology featuring high-k dielectrics/metal gates.Write Comment (3 comments) |
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Dec 11, 2007 at 08:00 AM |
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In yesterday's opening segment of Chip Shots' story about the official launch of Chinese equipment supplier AMEC, chairman/CEO Gerald Yin shared a bit of the company's background and strategic thinking.Write Comment (0 comments) |
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Dec 10, 2007 at 08:00 AM |
Gerald Yin didn't waste any time offering a key tenet of the AMEC mission statement: "We want to be leaders, rather than followers, by continuing to innovate new technologies and new products," the company chairman/CEO told me during an embargoed mid-November briefing in Silicon Valley.
After more than three years of careful preparation, AMEC (which stands for the deceptively generic sounding "Advanced Micro-Fabrication Equipment"), the first advanced semiconductor process equipment player to set up shop in China, came out of semistealth mode and launched its 65-/45-nm, 300-mm dielectric etch and HPCVD product line during Semicon Japan week.Write Comment (0 comments) |
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Dec 06, 2007 at 04:01 PM |
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When I read the brief report about Micrel's contract manufacturing of solar cells in its San Jose semiconductor facility, I did a double take: "They're running PV wafers and semi wafers in the same fab?" I thought.Write Comment (0 comments) |
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Dec 04, 2007 at 04:26 PM |
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After months---OK, a month or so---of speculation (including in Chip Shots' November 2 posting), Cypress Semi spinoff SVTC and Sematech subsidiary ATDF have finally announced their merger, creating what is probably the world's largest development foundry operation.Write Comment (0 comments) |
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Dec 03, 2007 at 04:42 PM |
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When you go to the newly launched www.gsaglobal.org site (which can also be reached by clicking on the same old fsa.org link), you see a graphic, where the "F" in the old FSA logo morphs into a "G," representing the new acronym for what was, until last week, the Fabless Semiconductor Association and what has become the Global Semiconductor Alliance.Write Comment (0 comments) |
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Nov 28, 2007 at 07:26 PM |
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As I scarfed my pasta during the lunch break at the mid-October press gathering at IMEC, Paul Heremans told me about the center's SOLAR+ Program's work in the organic photovoltaics (OPV) arena, including an upcoming paper at the Materials Research Society meeting about a spray-on deposition method: Not sprayed on with a spin-coating tool but deposited with an inexpensive airbrush nozzle like those used to paint cars! After swallowing my mouthful, I confirmed what Paul had said and asked what kind of conversion efficiencies the method had achieved.Write Comment (1 comments) |
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Nov 27, 2007 at 11:59 PM |
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Although it ranks as one of the more ambitious ongoing acquisitional gameplans, the parade of buyouts by Evans Analytical Group (EAG) has not exactly garnered above-the-fold microelectronics industry news coverage.Write Comment (0 comments) |
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