SANTA CLARA, Calif. — A sudden shift towards 300-mm chip manufacturing is causing shortages of 300-mm silicon wafers in the market right now, according to analysts from VLSI Research Inc. “Supply is ...

Ever wonder how Intel makes a CPU? Here's a glimpse at some of the amazingly sophisticated work going on daily inside those cutting-edge fabrication plants. A microprocessor is the most complex ...

The brow furrowing actually began last year. G. Dan Hutcheson, president of San Jose, CA-based market research firm VLSI Research Inc., started wondering last fall if the semiconductor industry's long ...

“With the improvement of VLSI technology, on-chip power grid design is becoming more challenging than before. In this design phase of VLSI CAD, power grids are generated in order to make power and ...

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 ...