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Exclusive usually = hit piece. Unnamed sources etc... :sleep:
Lip-Bu is out talking to customers so the foundry strategy may change...
Jul 5, 2025
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A memory/display fab would have been more reasonable for Samsung in US 🤣
Jul 5, 2025
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What was the least IBM Process that yielded well and had good volumes? This is the reason I don't have confidence in Rapidus should have...
Jul 5, 2025
300mm production started in 2002 in Rio Rancho, NM. Fab 11X cost $2B, a huge sum at the time.
Conversely, 200mm has lasted a long time...
Jul 5, 2025
If Samsung’s fabs in Korea can’t secure enough meaningful leading edge node orders from external customers, why bother spending money to...
Jul 5, 2025
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I think the notions of a “standard PDK” and “PDK quality” are both tricky because a PDK is the complete design tool and methodology...
Jul 5, 2025
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Is the trend of US and EU companies shutting down 6 and 8 inch fabs mean that they won’t be able to start production on new material...
Jul 5, 2025
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Yield... Widen the metal a bit. Increases via enclosure and make it easier on the end-of-line rule. Perhaps add a dummy at the end of...
Jul 5, 2025
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Folks argue that Intel is important to the US given that it’s one of two us based companies doing leading edge logic semiconductor...
Jul 5, 2025
South Korea's Samsung has invested billions in the U.S. and plans further spending to expand chipmaking capacity there. (Source photos...
Jul 5, 2025
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I think the notions of a “standard PDK” and “PDK quality” are both tricky because a PDK is the complete design tool and methodology...
Jul 5, 2025
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Is the Intel culture really that broken? that is unfortunate.. :(
Jul 5, 2025
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There is a vast difference in the degree of empowerment of process engineers at TSMC vs. Intel (and Samsung).
TSMC practices continuous...
Jul 5, 2025
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I think the notions of a “standard PDK” and “PDK quality” are both tricky because a PDK is the complete design tool and methodology...
Jul 5, 2025
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I think the notions of a “standard PDK” and “PDK quality” are both tricky because a PDK is the complete design tool and methodology...
Jul 5, 2025
Like.
Exclusive usually = hit piece. Unnamed sources etc... :sleep: Lip-Bu is out talking to customers so the foundry strategy may change...
hist78 reacted to benb's post in the thread NXP plans to close four 8-inch wafer fabs and expand production capacity to 12-inch wafers with