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The U.S. Will Start Manufacturing Advanced Chips

December 27, 2024
Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Metallurgy & Material Science

After years of planning, building, geopolitical wrangling, and workforce challenges, the world’s largest semiconductor foundry, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) is officially starting mass production at an advanced chip-manufacturing facility in Phoenix in 2025. The fab represents the arrival of advanced chip manufacturing in the United States and a test…

December 16, 2024
Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Metallurgy & Material Science

The future of memory is massive, diverse, and tightly integrated with processing. That was the message of an invited talk this week at the International Electron Devices Meeting in San Francisco. H.-S. Philip Wong, an electrical engineer at Stanford University and former vice president of research at TSMC who remains…

December 12, 2024
Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Metallurgy & Material Science

This week at the International Electron Devices Meeting in San Francisco, research teams spanning academia and industry presented data on high-performance carbon nanotube transistors (CNTs) and circuits. While it may be a decade or more before these devices are integrated into products, engineers at the conference argued that the field…

December 12, 2024
Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Metallurgy & Material Science

TSMC described its next generation transistor technology this week at the IEEE International Electron Device Meeting (IEDM) in San Francisco. The N2, or 2-nanometer, technology is the semiconductor foundry giant’s first foray into a new transistor architecture, called nanosheet or gate-all-around.Samsung has a process for manufacturing similar devices, and both…

October 9, 2024
Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Metallurgy & Material Science

Already positioned at the center of the global semiconductor industry, Taiwan now wants to make itself a hub for innovation in advanced artificial intelligence. The island nation’s new leadership, in place since May 2024, has taken a number of steps to help the country take better advantage of the AI…

October 2, 2024
Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Metallurgy & Material Science

The majority of the world’s advanced logic chips are made in Taiwan, and most of those are made by one company: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC). While it seems risky for companies like Nvidia, Apple, and Google to depend so much on one supplier, for Taiwan’s leaders, that’s a feature,…

September 3, 2024
Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Metallurgy & Material Science

The wind blowing in from the Taiwan Strait regularly blasts across Changhua Coastal Industrial Park. On this expanse of reclaimed land outside Taichung, Taiwan’s second largest city, 80 wind turbines, a pair of gas-fired power plants, and 4.3 square kilometers of solar farms generate electricity for Taiwan’s grid. More than…

May 14, 2024
Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Metallurgy & Material Science

In 2022, the United States fabricated 0 percent of the world’s most advanced logic chips. By 2032, that share could rise to 28 percent. So says a new report from the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) and Boston Consulting Group. If the report’s prediction pans out, the country should meet U.S.…

April 30, 2024
Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Metallurgy & Material Science

At TSMC’s North American Technology Symposium on Wednesday, the company detailed both its semiconductor technology and chip-packaging technology road maps. While the former is key to keeping the traditional part of Moore’s Law going, the latter could accelerate a trend toward processors made from more and more silicon, leading quickly…

28 Mar 24

How We’ll Reach a 1 Trillion Transistor GPU

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

In 1997 the IBM Deep Blue supercomputer defeated world chess champion Garry Kasparov. It was a groundbreaking demonstration of supercomputer technology and a first glimpse into how high-performance computing might one day overtake human-level intelligence. In the 10 years that followed, we began to use artificial intelligence for many practical…

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