The shift from planar SoCs to 3D-ICs and advanced packages requires much thinner wafers in order to improve performance and reduce power, reducing the distance that signals need to travel and the ...

WTF?! A Reddit user claims to have discovered an entire 12nm TSMC wafer discarded in a dumpster near one of the chipmaker's fabs in China. While it was just a test wafer, the find sparked jokes ...

The company will transfer wafer production from the Miyazaki plant of its subsidiary Sumco Techxiv to other manufacturing facilities, as it restructures the production for silicon wafers of 200mm ...

Despite this resilience, the earthquake may have affected between 10,000 to 20,000 wafers currently in production. These wafers are critical for TSMC's operations, particularly within its advanced ...

NexWafe’s high-throughput epitaxy tool, ProCon 2.5. Image: NexWafe German solar wafer manufacturer NexWafe has announced “key milestones” in its epitaxial wafer production which it claims ...

A new way to make ultra-thin diamond wafers using sticky tape could help produce diamond-based electronics, which might one day be a useful alternative to silicon-based designs. Diamond has ...

Dec 4 (Reuters) - Soitec (SOIT.PA), opens new tab will supply GlobalFoundries (GF) (GFS.O), opens new tab with its RF-SOI wafers for GF's latest radio platform. The French semiconductor ...

According to Infineon, these wafers—the thinnest of its type to be mass-produced—will enhance the efficiency, density, and reliability of its power converters. Modern chips are manufactured on ...

With a thickness of only 20 µm and a diameter of 300 mm, Infineon’s silicon power wafers are the thinnest in the industry. These ultra-thin wafers are a quarter the thickness of a human hair and half ...

Infineon has unveiled the world’s thinnest silicon power wafers, with a thickness of 20 micrometers and a diameter of 300 millimeters. The company said the newly produced wafers are half as thick as ...

That includes businesses that produce the wafers that are ultimately turned into semiconductors, as well as manufacturers of chips and chipmaking equipment.