martinmason
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What's the fastest way to increase capacity and address the semiconductor supply crunch??
We all know that more FABs are slow and expensive.
Additional equipment takes many quarters to buy, build and commission (assuming you have the clean-room space)
Yield improvements help - but most processes are already far down the yield optimization curve.
Can we make more more chips on the same tools by being smarter and more efficient in the semiconductor process control?
I'd love to get the communities thoughts on smarter semiconductor processing with AI/ML and in-situ metrology to drive process control based throughput (and yield?) efficiencies?
A 3% improvement in critical path throughput on a 30K wfr/month fab could be an extra ~900-1,000 wafers a month. What is being done to improve throughput on the existing tools and processes? Where is the critical path pinch point for throughput in most fabs?
We all know that more FABs are slow and expensive.
Additional equipment takes many quarters to buy, build and commission (assuming you have the clean-room space)
Yield improvements help - but most processes are already far down the yield optimization curve.
Can we make more more chips on the same tools by being smarter and more efficient in the semiconductor process control?
I'd love to get the communities thoughts on smarter semiconductor processing with AI/ML and in-situ metrology to drive process control based throughput (and yield?) efficiencies?
A 3% improvement in critical path throughput on a 30K wfr/month fab could be an extra ~900-1,000 wafers a month. What is being done to improve throughput on the existing tools and processes? Where is the critical path pinch point for throughput in most fabs?