Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), the world's leading semiconductor foundry, has been riding a wave of growth driven by artificial intelligence (AI) and advanced technology nodes. As ...

The challenges before semiconductor fabs are expansive and evolving. As the size of chips shrinks from nanometers to eventually angstroms, the complexity of the manufacturing process increases in ...

Semiconductor manufacturing is going through massive transformational challenges driven by strong demand for advanced computing, fueled by AI, cloud, the electrification of the economy, and the need ...

The end of the earnings season is always a good time to take a step back and see who shined (and who not so much). Let’s take ...

Applied Materials has launched the SEMVision™ H20, a new defect review system designed to enhance the analysis of nanoscale defects in advanced semiconductor chips. This system utilizes cutting-edge ...

For years — since the first "Terminator" movie, really — employees have worried about artificial intelligence replacing them in the workplace. Though AI implementation could lead to fewer jobs in ...

In this Q&A, you will learn about some of the technologies and techniques that are making it possible to address advanced ...

Mark Najarian from Thermo Fisher Scientific, talks to Neil Tyler about the company's role in semiconductor fabrication.

Modern advanced packaging processes and shrinking semiconductor device sizes mean that it is vital to consistently eliminate sub-20 nm defects and surface contaminants. To do this effectively, the ...

In ADAS, semiconductors process sensor data to deliver features such as automatic braking, collision warnings, and lane-keeping assistance. As electric vehicles (EVs) and autonomous driving gain ...

The first step for semiconductor chips is visual inspection using an optical microscope or electrical measurements. 2 Mechanical probing, electron beams, emission microscopy, liquid crystal, etc., are ...