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There are many threads about backside power but I am lost on a key point: when/how is the backside metal put in place?
Conventionally, a finished wafer would be ground from the backside to expose vias.
In BP, it seems to be that the power lines are laid down first and the transistors are...
I am in charge of upcoming ASMC panel discussion. We are bringing together experts to talk about "unintended consequences of CHIPS on Moore's Law". I need to put together a few strong graphics but I am having difficulty locating long-series data. Here is specifically what I am looking for:
1-...
I need help from the community for an upcoming event (ASMC).
Considering the cost of land, of equipment etc. what would be the size of a generic competitive logic foundry being built today? TSMC is often confusing the issue by not calling each fab complex with its own name. So you end up with...
Call off the dogs. The CHIPS act is dead. It will not pass in one form or another this year. I am not sure that it's good or bad as there's been many iterations. What I do know is that as a country, we are laser focused... on other things. Consider that in the last 20 years:
1- We decided that...
There's been many excellent discussions on this forum about chip shortages affecting many industries (automotive in particular). It's a story with many chapters so no need to re-hash here.
I am wondering if the growth of crypto mining is an important factor to the overall tightness of the IC...