In order to stay competitive, semiconductor fabrication plants (fabs) must increase throughput and lower costs. At the same time processes are becoming more complex with shorter life cycles. In this environment, some fabs are turning to their workforce for the added capacity, flexibility, and ...
1 All of this investment is expected to create up to 48,000 jobs at fabrication plants (fabs), some of which are slated to begin operating in the next two to three years. These new job numbers do not account for the rise in attrition the industry is likely to experience in the same ...
Auto chiplet consortium; more nuke plants for AI; critical IC materials risk; TIMs; Foxconn in Mexico; ML in auto MCUs; 3nm PHY chiplet; chip health monitoring; AI test. by The SE Staff Metrology Advances Step Up To Sub-2nm Device Node Needs Fab processes that enable stacked transistors...
An ongoing issue of congressional interest is the retention of high-value semiconductor manufacturing in the United States. In 2015, semiconductor manufacturers directly employed 181,000 workers, who earned an average wage of $138,100, more than twice the average wage for all U.S. manufacturing w...
(Phys.org) —By applying pressure to a semiconductor, researchers have been able to transform a semiconductor into a "topological insulator" (TI), an intriguing state of matter in which a material's interior is insulating but its surfaces or edges are co
NEW YORK (AP) — Nvidia is replacing Intel on the Dow Jones Industrial Average, ending a 25-year-run for a pioneering semiconductor company that has fallen behind as Nvidia cornered the market for chips that run artificial intelligence systems.
As computer processors have continued to shrink down to sizes where billions of transistors are on single chip, heat has increasingly become a bigger factor in their performance. If those CPUs did not get as hot in the first place, then much less energy would be needed to keep them cool. ...
For example, a number of TSMC plants have attained a process water recycling rate of higher than 90%, when the average global rate within the semiconductor industry is 85%. Similarly, the company's average removal efficiency of volatile organic compounds (VOC) treatment exhaust is relatively ...
Details of power generation and transmission projects around the world, including renewable, nuclear and conventional power plants.
Some studies have shown that invasive plants sustain lower levels of herbivore damage when compared to native species, but how damage affects fitness and population dynamics remains unclear. We used a system...