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29 Jul 23

This Machine Could Keep Moore’s Law on Track

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

Over the last half-century, we’ve come to think of Moore’s Law—the roughly biennial doubling of the number of transistors in a given area of silicon, the gains that drive computing forward—as something that just happens, as though it were a natural, inevitable process, akin to evolution or aging. The reality,…

12 Jun 23

The Semiconductor Industry’s Most Important Tool Goes Green

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

In the complex quest to keep increasing the density of transistors, extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography is the most critical tool. Costing more than US $100 million, these trailer-size systems bounce near x-ray wavelength light off of a complex cascade of mirrors and onto silicon wafers to create patterns with nanometer-scale…

23 Mar 23

Nvidia Speeds Key Chipmaking Computation by 40x

Computer & Information Technology

Nvidia says it has found a way to speed up a computation-limited step in the chipmaking process so that it happens 40 times as fast as today’s standard. Called inverse lithography, it’s a key tool that allows chipmakers to print nanometer-scale features using light with a longer wavelength than the…