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Intuitively, it would've been the the automation unfriendly wirebonded packaging which should've been more expensive. Why a simpler WLCSP is priced higher?
How real is the idea of an alliance of multiple 2nd tier foundries fielding common sub-40nm nodes, or at least coming to some degree of IP standardisation?
Import substitution speeds up as Chinese MCU suppliers target automotive sector
Annie Huang, roundup; Jack Wu, DIGITIMES AsiaThursday 16 February 20230
Credit: DIGITIMES
The wave of import substitution in China's semiconductor sector, coupled with the strong demand from the EV market, has led...
I began reading on MEMS industry, and how one enters it. It seem there are close to no "feeder industries" into it, and most opportunities on working on new MEMS developments come from university->industry transition.
MEMS made crazy advances over the last decade, and I still can't fathom how...
It seems that Greens didn't score a change, if not slid a bit.
Tsai has announced her resignation as a DPP's chair.
I have a distant feeling that blue will be less generous with the industry in their localities. Greens were always strong around Hsinchu, and south in general.
Hello fellows,
Did anybody work on something using Kandou bus? How true it is the popular notion that KB is marginally better than PAM-4 at extra ~50% transistor count?
Outside of the fabrication space, does anybody have an account of somebody succesfully working in semi soace alone? Whether it is individual IP selling, hdl outsourcing, niche consulting, specialist service for fabrication, or working as a fabless?
https://www.soft-epi.com/document/epiwafer
It seems they managed to get well past the sub-1% efficiencies for red on InGaN. That's way more than Porotech, Raxium, etc.
This is still way behind commercial AlInGaP red leds, but this now means that an InGaN RGB device is practically possible.
Passing birdies been telling that Google made a decision to make own CPUs from scratch, and is now recruiting for that.
They want a fully proprietary platform from the ground up.
Most of the team is planned to be brain drained from IBM Research — possibly the last place left in North America...
So, I lived long enough to see first major war in my lifetime. Something the last 2-3 generations were fortunate not to see after the end of WW2.
The enormous, industry-wide cap-ex earmarked for the coming decade will have to go somewhere, but we already see very inevitable consumption decline...
Hello ladies, and gentlemen, does anybody know of any of good repute?
We scoured everything in China, and so far every road goes to Weibu as the only genuinely trustable contractor.
So, here is the link https://semiengineering.com/startup-funding-january-2022/
And out of those 34 remaining, many got mainland funders, or having nothing to do with mainstream semi industry, like the capacitor company.
I keep reading on how people on the last gen node are faring, and besides power it seems there are no clear way forward.
1. Pellicle — is ready, but appeared to be a mixed blessing for productivity, and yields
2. Tool cleaning, and other maintenance — an unavoidable fixed cost. Fabs seem to be...
There is a frustrating amount of trial, and failure involved designing power circuits for very low voltage, but power hungry chips like CPUs, GPUs, and such.
Even people buying reference designs often trip with capacitor selection, and such.
I believe, it should be universal now that for <1V...
What era semi equipment do IGBT makers run on? Any open access info on the process?
There is a very serious capacity crunch for IGBTs now since all electrical appliances run off inverters. It been the case even before COVID.
One fellow in a very well doing consumer electronics brand been...
