Consumer to Industrial Data Explosion Hits Supply Chain
Traffic to the cloud is doubling each year, driving demand for new technologies for everything from the RF front end of mobile phones to the architecture of data centers. “5G is not like the other Gs — it’s an inflection from consumer to industry,”...
Supply Chain Needs Paradigm Shift in How to Look at Defect Control
The future of contamination control in the next-generation supply chain for beyond 14nm-node semiconductor processes faces stringent challenges. While Moore’s Law is driving scale reduction, the industry is also facing ever-increasing process...
Lithography Trends: Patterning Not Like It Used to Be
Prior to 1997, the industry enjoyed the “mask maker’s holiday” when IC feature sizes were larger than the lithography wavelength and the industry enjoyed the number of transistors per area doubling for no additional cost. This era ended when 248nm...
Sweat Patch Mops Up Real-time Performance Monitor
In 2016, the Nano-Bio Manufacturing Consortium (NBMC), a FlexTech-managed consortium focused on human performance monitoring technology, and funded in part by the Air Force Research Laboratories (AFRL), contracted with a broad-based team of industry...