Podcast EP265: The History of Moore’s Law and What Lies Ahead with Intel’s Mr. Transistor

Podcast EP265: The History of Moore’s Law and What Lies Ahead with Intel’s Mr. Transistor
by Daniel Nenni on 12-08-2024 at 6:00 am

Dan is joined by Dr. Tahir Ghani, Intel senior fellow and director of process pathfinding in Intel’s Technology Research Group. Tahir has a 30-year career at Intel working on many innovations, including strained silicon, high-K metal gate devices, FinFETs, RibbonFETs, and backside power delivery (BSPD), among others. He has… Read More


70th Annual IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting

70th Annual IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting
by Admin on 07-23-2024 at 8:35 pm

IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM) is the world’s preeminent forum for reporting technological breakthroughs in the areas of semiconductor and electronic device technology, design, manufacturing, physics, and modeling. IEDM is the flagship conference for nanometer-scale CMOS transistor technology,… Read More


IEDM: What Comes After Silicon?

IEDM: What Comes After Silicon?
by admin on 01-09-2024 at 10:00 am

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The annual International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM) took place last month. One of the presentations on the short course was by Matthew Metz of Intel titled New Materials Systems for Moore’s Law Continuation. In essence this was a look at some of the possibilities for what comes after silicon runs out of steam.

Matthew started… Read More


IEDM 2023 is Coming in December

IEDM 2023 is Coming in December
by Scotten Jones on 10-19-2023 at 6:00 am

IEDM 2023

Anyone who has read my previous IEDM articles will know I view it as one of the best conferences on semiconductor process technology. From the tutorials, short courses and the conference papers there are so many great opportunities to keep up to date on the latest developments. The following are the conference organizers’ announcements… Read More


Samsung Versus TSMC Update 2022

Samsung Versus TSMC Update 2022
by Daniel Nenni on 12-02-2022 at 6:00 am

TSMC Versus Samsung

After attending the TSMC and Samsung foundry conferences I wanted to share some quick opinions about the foundry business. Nothing earth shattering but interesting just the same. Both conferences were well attended. If we are not back to the pre pandemic numbers we are very close to it.

TSMC and Samsung both acknowledged that there… Read More


IEDM 2022 is shaping up

IEDM 2022 is shaping up
by Scotten Jones on 07-17-2022 at 10:00 am

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IEDM is one of the premiere conferences for the latest information on leading edge semiconductor technology. The 68th annual International Electron Devices Meeting will be held December 3rd through 7th at the San Francisco Hilton.

The paper submission deadline is July 14, 2022, and the late-news deadline is August 22, 2022. … Read More


Podcast EP52: A Preview of the Upcoming IEDM Meeting

Podcast EP52: A Preview of the Upcoming IEDM Meeting
by Daniel Nenni on 12-10-2021 at 10:00 am

Dan is joined by Srabanti Chowdhury, the publicity co-chair for IEDM, which will be an in-person conference December 11-15 at the Hilton San Francisco Union Square. Dan explores the topics to be discussed at the upcoming meeting and what they suggest about the future of semiconductors.

Srabanti Chowdhury is an associate … Read More


IEDM 2021 – Back to in Person

IEDM 2021 – Back to in Person
by Scotten Jones on 10-18-2021 at 6:00 am

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Anyone who has read my previous articles about IEDM knows I consider it the premier conference on process technology.

Last year due to COVID IEDM was virtual and although virtual offers some advantages the hallway conversations that can be such an important part of the conference are lost. This year IEDM is returning as a live event… Read More


IEDM 2020 Starts this Weekend

IEDM 2020 Starts this Weekend
by Scotten Jones on 12-10-2020 at 6:00 am

IEDM 2020 Logo

As I have discussed before, I believe that IEDM is the premier technical conference for understanding leading edge process technologies. Beginning this coming weekend, this year’s edition of IEDM will be held virtually, and I highly recommend attending.

The conference held a press briefing last Monday. The tutorial and short… Read More


Tracing Technology’s Evolution with Patents

Tracing Technology’s Evolution with Patents
by Arabinda Das on 04-23-2020 at 10:00 am

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We live in an age of abundant information. There is a tremendous exchange of ideas crisscrossing the world enabling new innovative type of products to pop up daily. Therefore, in this era there is a greater need to understand competitive intelligence. Corporate companies today are interested in what other competitors are brewing… Read More