Japan has placed a concrete manufacturing bet on silicon spin qubits: Hitachi, Ltd. announced on July 22 that it has been selected by Japan's New Energy and Industrial Technology Development ...

A 2D material called chromium oxychloride dramatically outperforms traditional hard masks in chip fabrication, resisting plasma etching far better at nanoscale thicknesses. (Nanowerk News) Making ...

Intel has broken ground on what it describes as an expansion of its mask operations center in Santa Clara, an essential first step in the chip manufacturing process. The new campus consists of two ...

Over the past several decades, the semiconductor industry has experienced sustained growth. Early expansion was driven by the widespread adoption of personal computers, while today demand is fueled by ...

The semiconductor industry is one of the most advanced and complex in the world. The semiconductor industry relies on highly specialized supply chains and manufacturing equipment. This ecosystem ...

IBM has developed the blueprint for producing a processor using sub-1-nanometer (nm) chip technology, outdoing its own efforts to increase efficiency and processing power with 2-nm tech from a few ...

The partnership brings one of the AI industry's top players to the Tempe based Amkor, which could onshore more of the semiconductor packaging process.

Macworld explains how Apple uses “binned” chips—processors with disabled cores due to manufacturing defects—to create more affordable products like the iPhone 17e and entry-level MacBook Air. This ...