Yesterday was Intel research day where Intel showed off a wide range of research projects that aim to keep the company healthy in the near to long term. In the Computational Lithography demo area, ...

Intel has successfully manufactured silicon transistors at a new microscopic level. The transistors measure just 20 nanometres in size and were created using a manufacturing technique called Extreme ...

AMD AND IBM DETAIL EARLY RESULTS USING IMMERSION AND ULTRA LOW-K IN 45NM CHIPS -- Advanced technologies provide improved performance and efficiency while reducing complexity in microprocessor design ...

LONDON (MarketWatch) -- Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. and IBM said they will roll out the first 45nm products using immersion lithography and ultra-low-K interconnect dielectrics in mid 2008. Current ...

How Does EUV Lithography Work? EUV Lithography is a state-of-the-art technology in chip manufacturing that uses highly energetic ultraviolet light to carve detailed patterns onto semiconductor ...

TSMC is planning to adopt double patterning extensively at 20nm, despite the high cost of doing so. Why? Because EUV hasn't come through. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X (opens in ...

In context: Lithography machines are some of the most complex and expensive used in chip manufacturing. They generate steady beams of light in the ultraviolet spectrum and filter that light until it ...

(Nanowerk News) In a joint R&D project, the Advanced Mask Technology Center (AMTC, Dresden), semiconductor equipment provider Vistec (Weilburg and Jena, Germany) and the German metrology institute PTB ...