How the Father of FinFETs Helped Save Moore’s Law

How the Father of FinFETs Helped Save Moore’s Law
by Daniel Nenni on 10-07-2025 at 8:00 am

Chenming Hu and Obama

In the early 2000s, Moore’s Law—the observation that the number of transistors on a chip doubles roughly every two years—was facing an existential crisis. As semiconductor nodes shrank below 90nm, planar transistors suffered from debilitating issues: leakage currents soared, power efficiency plummeted, and scaling became… Read More


AI Revives Chipmaking as Tech’s Core Engine

AI Revives Chipmaking as Tech’s Core Engine
by Daniel Nenni on 09-17-2025 at 8:00 am

The Economist

A century ago, 391 San Antonio Road in Mountain View, California, housed an apricot-packing shed. Today, it’s marked by sculptures of diodes and a transistor, commemorating the 1956 founding of Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory—the birthplace of Silicon Valley. William Shockley, co-inventor of the transistor, aimed… Read More


From Atoms to Tokens: Semiconductor Supply Chain Evolution

From Atoms to Tokens: Semiconductor Supply Chain Evolution
by Admin on 08-02-2025 at 7:00 am

On July 18, 2025, a DACtv session titled “From Atoms to Tokens” explored the semiconductor supply chain’s transformation, as presented in the YouTube video. The speaker tackled the challenges and innovations from the atomic level of chip fabrication to the tokenized ecosystems of AI-driven data centers, emphasizing the critical… Read More


CEO Interview with Brad Booth of NLM Photonics

CEO Interview with Brad Booth of NLM Photonics
by Daniel Nenni on 03-24-2025 at 10:00 am

Brad Booth

Brad Booth, CEO of NLM Photonics, is a distinguished technology strategy and development leader, and influential in industry consortia and standardization. Prior to NLM, Booth served at Meta Platforms and Microsoft Azure, where he focused on developing next-generation optical connectivity solutions for Cloud and AI data… Read More


CEO Interview with Jonas Sundqvist of AlixLabs

CEO Interview with Jonas Sundqvist of AlixLabs
by Daniel Nenni on 03-21-2025 at 6:00 am

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Jonas Sundqvist received his PhD in inorganic chemistry from Uppsala University, Department for Materials Chemistry at The Ångström Laboratory in 2003 where he developed ALD and CVD processes for metal oxide ALD and CVD processes using metal iodides. Jonas is in charge of the daily business at AlixLabs – as a co-founder, he’s… Read More


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


From Space-Central to Space-Time Balanced – A Perspective for Moore’s Law 2.0 and A Holistic Paradigm for Emergence

From Space-Central to Space-Time Balanced – A Perspective for Moore’s Law 2.0 and A Holistic Paradigm for Emergence
by Daniel Nenni on 10-24-2024 at 4:00 pm

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A friend of SemiWiki published an article on Moore’s Law in IEEE that I think is worth reading:

IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, Vol. 41, Issue 4.

The topic of Moore’s Law is of paramount importance, reaching almost the entire field of electronics (and the semiconductor industry). In the course of six decades, for the first… Read More


Why Glass Substrates?

Why Glass Substrates?
by Sharada Yeluri on 08-13-2024 at 6:00 am

Intel Glass Substrates

The demand for high-performance and sustainable computing and networking silicon for AI has undoubtedly increased R&D dollars and the pace of innovation in semiconductor technology. With Moore’s Law slowing down at the chip level, there is a desire to pack as many chiplets as possible inside ASIC packages and get … Read More


The Case for U.S. CHIPS Act 2

The Case for U.S. CHIPS Act 2
by Admin on 06-03-2024 at 8:00 am

America CHIPs ACT

Despite murky goals and moving targets, the recent CHIPS Act sets the stage for long term government incentives.

Authored by Jo Levy and Kaden Chaung

On April 25, 2024, the U.S. Department of Commerce announced the fourth, and most likely final, grant under the current U.S. CHIPS Act for leading-edge semiconductor manufacturing.… Read More


SPIE Let there be Light! High NA Kickoff! Samsung Slows? “Rapid” Decline?

SPIE Let there be Light! High NA Kickoff! Samsung Slows? “Rapid” Decline?
by Robert Maire on 03-03-2024 at 6:00 am

High NA EUV 2024

– High NA EUV’s coming out party – “Dawn” of the Angstrom Era
– Well attended, positive vibes, not much new but good progress
– Concerns about Samsung slowing spend while Intel accelerates
– KLA reticle inspection quandary – Risky business in China

SPIE was a High-NA
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