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EUV Pellicles

EUV Pellicles
by Paul McLellan on 07-31-2014 at 8:01 am

Shakespeare reckoned that a man went through seven stages in his life.All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances, And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages.

Well, an EUV mask seems to only go through three main stages:

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    Moderate growth and minor correction in semiconductors

    Moderate growth and minor correction in semiconductors
    by Bill Jewell on 07-22-2014 at 1:30 pm

    At SEMICON West two weeks ago, Bob Johnson of Gartner presented the outlook for the semiconductor market, semiconductor capital spending, and wafer fab equipment spending. Thanks to Daniel Nenni for providing the link to the SEMI/Gartner Market Symposium presentations at https://sites.google.com/a/semi.org/market-symposium/home/speaker-presentationsRead More


    SEMICON Update: 450mm, EUV, FinFET, and More

    SEMICON Update: 450mm, EUV, FinFET, and More
    by Scotten Jones on 07-19-2014 at 3:00 pm

    I spent all of last week at SEMICON West meeting with customers, potential customers, partners and various industry analysts and experts. I was involved in many interesting discussions over the course of the week and I thought I would share some of the more interesting observations:

    Alternate Fin Materials Pushed Out
    I have for… Read More


    EUV and DSA from Imec and #semiconwest

    EUV and DSA from Imec and #semiconwest
    by Paul McLellan on 07-14-2014 at 7:00 am

    All the details of how we will build semiconductors going forward depend on whether we have EUV in our arsenal or not. Imec is very close to this since they work closely with ASML (who are about an hour and half’s drive away just outside Eindhoven in the Netherlands). At the imec technology symposium we were given a quick summary… Read More


    Imec’s Process Secret Decoder Ring

    Imec’s Process Secret Decoder Ring
    by Paul McLellan on 07-12-2014 at 11:00 am

    To wrap up Semicon West, let’s go back to Monday and the imec presentations. In fact, An Steegen’s presentation titled The Semiconductor Roadmap. She covered a lot of ground, but some of her slides contain a wealth of information. Let’s look at the options for 10nm, 7nm and a little 5nm, what imec call N10, N7 and… Read More


    Bob Metcalfe Keynote at #semiconwest

    Bob Metcalfe Keynote at #semiconwest
    by Paul McLellan on 07-10-2014 at 9:00 am

    My PhD is in distributed file systems so one of the key networking papers was Metcalfe and Boggs, 1976. It was titled Ethernet: Distributed Packet Switching for Local Computer Networks. This was the paper that introduced the world to Ethernet and to Bob Metcalfe. He was on stage yesterday here at Semicon West to give the afternoon… Read More


    Mark Adams Keynote at #semiconwest

    Mark Adams Keynote at #semiconwest
    by Paul McLellan on 07-09-2014 at 12:58 pm

    The first surprise of the opening keynote for Semicon West was on the slides that were cycling on the screen as the room filled up. Somehow our book Fabless had managed to be in the rotation.

    The opening keynote was by Mark Adams, the President of Micron. He was talking about upcoming big changes in the semiconductor environment, although… Read More


    The Internet of Things @ SEMICON West 2014!

    The Internet of Things @ SEMICON West 2014!
    by Daniel Nenni on 07-09-2014 at 9:00 am

    Clearly I’m a fan of IoT in regards to the future of the fabless semiconductor industry. The fabless semiconductor transformation unleashed all sorts of innovation giving us the SoC and the life changing mobile devices SoCs enable. Unfortunately modern SoC design is expensive and raising capital for semiconductor start-ups… Read More


    IMEC Technology Symposium

    IMEC Technology Symposium
    by Paul McLellan on 07-08-2014 at 12:52 pm

    Yesterday I attended the IMEC Technology Forum at Semicon West. As always with IMEC, they present so much information it is like drinking from a firehose. I’ll say more about the future of process technology in a blog later this week, but this blog is about IMEC itself. It is an amazing success story. Let’s face it, if you were going … Read More