The new tool has the ability to dramatically improve resolution and feature scaling for next-generation processors by changing the optics design for projecting printed images onto a silicon wafer. “With the addition of High NA EUV, Intel will have the most well-rounded lithography toolbox in ...
And while Intel manufacturing and design teams regularly create all manner of Frankenstein test-chips — to test new designs and intellectual properties and to solidify silicon processes — they don’t usually make them as functional and complete as Blue Sky Creek. In this case, the teams needed...
s greenfield investment of more than $28 billion to build two new leading-edge fabs in Ohio marks the single largest private-sector investment in the state's history. In 2022, we broke ground in the “Silicon Heartland” to establish a new regional economic cluster for U.S. chipmaking and...
Bringing together the performance and reliability of integrated photonics with the scalability of silicon to enable high-bandwidth, power-efficient connectivity. What Is Silicon Photonics? Silicon Photonics is a combination of two of the most important inventions of the 20th century—the silicon integrate...
Company researchers said the advance represented the most significant change in the materials used to manufacture silicon chips since Intel pioneered the modern integrated-circuit transistor more than ...
allow chipmakers to embed ever smaller features on silicon, beginning with chips at the 70-nanometer level. Current processors are manufactured on a 180 nanometer micron process. Smaller features mean more transistors can be squeezed onto smaller pieces of silicon, making for greater computing power...
The drama extended to other companies. In response to the funding dispute, Commerce scrapped a planned program for commercial research and development, forcing officials torejecta funding application fromApplied MaterialsInc. for a $4 billion Silicon Valley project. Efforts to boost the Chips Act by...
Light travels from inside an EUV machine onto the silicon wafers being turned into chips by bouncing through a series of mirrors. Those mirrors are made from more than 100 layers of material. According to ASML, they are polished until their surface is even to within one atom’s thickness. ...
A photo shows one of Intel's Tunnel Falls chips on a human finger to display its scale. Silicon spin qubits are up to 1 million times smaller than other qubit types. The Tunnel Falls chip measures approximately 50-nanometers square, potentially allowing for faster scaling. (Credi...
Intel will soon be cut out of Apple's processor supply chain as the tech giant moves to in-house silicon designs for Mac, but the chipmaker is looking to claw its way back in as a third-party manufacturer. Intel on Tuesday announced it will invest some$20 billionto build a pair of c...