Credit: TSMC Silicon is the understated hero of the modern world, found in everything from CPUs and medical implants to precious stones, window glass, and bakeware. But what makes silicon so special? Join us for an overview of silicon: where it's found, how it got here, and how we ...
Debugging a chip when it fails test in a non-obvious way or when a chip fails and the cause needs to be determined Interfacing to focused ion beam (FIB) systems for microsurgery and deeper analysis of the chip using the real silicon Much of the challenge in handling designs at this stage...
While the design of these custom silicon chips is proprietary, their manufacturing is often outsourced to other companies. Apple's M1 chip in the 2020 MacBook series, for example, is produced by TSMC.Examples of custom siliconListed below are the various silicon chips that are developed by ...
Around the same time, Apple’s semiconductor design experience had grown rapidly. Their collaboration with TSMC – the company that actually made their chips – opened the door to better and better nodes (the actual manufacturing process used for the chips). With Intel’s chips stagnating, Apple...
In summary, micro-electromechanical systems fuse electrical and mechanical components on integrated chips to enable transformative applications. With ongoing innovations in manufacturing and design, MEMS will continue growing as a key technology across industries from automotive to medical to consumer electroni...
The base-level M5 is not the only chip we’ll see in the next generation of Apple silicon — Apple will also be working on mid-range and high-end chips for its more advanced Macs. According to Ming-Chi Kuo, the M5 Pro and M5 Max should be released in 2025, with the M5 Ultra fol...
I think the most important thing I see in terms of the industry with the CHIPS Act is that today we’ve got not just Intel, but TSMC, Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron. These are the five companies whose products and processes are at the most advanced nodes in semicondu...
Presumably the issue that was reported to affect the M1/M2 and M3 chips at a fundamental level has been fixed in the M4 which is one other reason Apple are skipping the M3 for most of the new models and going straight to M4. Reactions: cosmos and parameter Razorpit macrumors 65816 Feb...
hopping between traces via quantum tunneling. This "current leakage" introduces noise that mucks up the square waves of a binary signal like how JPEG artifacts ruin old photos. Worse, it also makes chips vulnerable to thermal runaway, which can destroy a chip altogether. Like the brain, only...
High-end Raptor Lake chips seem to be breaking down on the daily, even CPU's used in server environments seem to have a failure rate of ~25%. Intel as a company is not giving us, the consumers, any updates into their investigation. I have been offered a replacement CPU/r...