A silicon wafer is a thin slice of crystalline silicon typically grown using the Czochralski process, which involves pulling a crystal seed from a molten silicon bath. A silicon wafer is a thin slice ...

The long-held skepticism around wafer-scale architectures is deep and goes back decades. Few have tried and all have failed, either for business or technology reasons, including the venerable Gene ...

The shift from planar SoCs to 3D-ICs and advanced packages requires much thinner wafers in order to improve performance and reduce power, reducing the distance that signals need to travel and the ...

Stacking chiplets vertically using short and direct wafer-to-wafer bonds can reduce signal delay to negligible levels, enabling smaller, thinner packages with faster memory/processor speeds and lower ...

The AI startup Cerebras has shown that a single wafer-scale Cerebras CS-1 can outperform one of the fastest supercomputers in the US by more than 200 times for physics simulations and many AI ...

Testing, sorting, packaging and testing. And then some more testing. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The world of semiconductor ...

Silicon carbide (SiC) has arrived, and it’s a big deal. It was written all over APEC 2023 show with a string attached: the cost of a SiC device is significantly higher than its silicon counterpart.

China’s top wafer makers raised prices on key n-type formats, signaling potential module price rises toward $0.21 (CNY 1) per ...

In a panel discussion Thursday morning, representatives of a SEMI study group presented a strong case against an early move to 450 mm wafers. Their arguments were quantitative, based on an economic ...

WTF?! A Reddit user claims to have discovered an entire 12nm TSMC wafer discarded in a dumpster near one of the chipmaker's fabs in China. While it was just a test wafer, the find sparked jokes about ...