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E61M5Touring reacted to Fred Chen's post in the thread Stochastics: Yield-Killing Gap No One Wants to Talk About with Like.

In mid-2024, TSMC apparently indicated that they prioritized throughput over curing stochastics. TSMC "optimized the EUV exposure dose...

Jul 30, 2025
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E61M5Touring reacted to Investor1234's post in the thread Stochastics: Yield-Killing Gap No One Wants to Talk About with Like.

There are a lot of SPIE litho papers on this - in particular on resists and how they've helped keep dose under control. I think TSMC has...

Jul 30, 2025
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E61M5Touring reacted to Fred Chen's post in the thread Stochastics: Yield-Killing Gap No One Wants to Talk About with Like.

My understanding is that while increasing dose is probably the earliest proposal, users have mostly not done so because of two reasons...

Jul 30, 2025
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E61M5Touring reacted to Investor1234's post in the thread Stochastics: Yield-Killing Gap No One Wants to Talk About with Like.

TSMC obviously - but these issues with stochastics are not new. It was covered in depth in the 2022 IRDS Lithography roadmap...

Jul 30, 2025
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E61M5Touring reacted to coldsolder215's post in the thread Stochastics: Yield-Killing Gap No One Wants to Talk About with Like.

My pet apocalyptic scenario is some unfathomable aging mechanism in sub-2nm devices causes a massive chip casualty event that brings...

Jul 30, 2025
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E61M5Touring reacted to user nl's post in the thread Stochastics: Yield-Killing Gap No One Wants to Talk About with Like.

Thanks, a very nice story. Chris sounds a lot better/more optimistic these days, also about resist options for mitigation of this issue...

Jul 30, 2025
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E61M5Touring reacted to Fred Chen's post in the thread Stochastics: Yield-Killing Gap No One Wants to Talk About with Like.

By Chris Mack, CTO, Fractilia 07.18.2025 The Stochastics resolution gap costs chipmakers billions in delayed yield ramps, compromised...

Jul 30, 2025
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Fred Chen replied to the thread Stochastics: Yield-Killing Gap No One Wants to Talk About.

In mid-2024, TSMC apparently indicated that they prioritized throughput over curing stochastics. TSMC "optimized the EUV exposure dose...

Jul 29, 2025
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vslee reacted to DanX's post in the thread Intel Reports Second-Quarter 2025 Financial Results with Like.

This is unfair. It's not the same story

Jul 29, 2025
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Fred Chen reacted to benb's post in the thread Stochastics: Yield-Killing Gap No One Wants to Talk About with Like.

Cool website, cool company. I'll spread the word. https://www.fractilia.com/intro-to-stochastics SEM Tool Fleet Matching interesting

Jul 29, 2025
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samwilde reacted to hist78's post in the thread Samsung to Produce Tesla Chips in $16.5 Billion Multiyear Deal with Haha.

Don’t underestimate Elon Musk’s capabilities, he might push Samsung Taylor fab’s yield to 120%!

Jul 29, 2025
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samwilde reacted to siliconbruh999's post in the thread Samsung to Produce Tesla Chips in $16.5 Billion Multiyear Deal with Haha.

I am waiting for yields reached 100% due to musk watching the line and yield dropped when he stopped watching them.

Jul 29, 2025
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vslee reacted to hist78's post in the thread Intel Reports Second-Quarter 2025 Financial Results with Like.

I think you may not be very familiar with how Taiwan, the Republic of China, and its politics or how a democracy works. People who...

Jul 29, 2025
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vslee reacted to ai268's post in the thread Intel Reports Second-Quarter 2025 Financial Results with Like.

Finally, someone mentions about Digital. How about Control Data, Data General, Unisys, Wang, Honeywell, NCR, Tandem, Apollo, Convex...

Jul 29, 2025
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samwilde reacted to DanX's post in the thread Samsung to Produce Tesla Chips in $16.5 Billion Multiyear Deal with Like.

As I figure it, IFS has absolutely no grasp of the fab ecosystem. If they are serious about fabs, BTC miner customer should be their...

Jul 29, 2025

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