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TSMC to be the first to 20nm process, prepares to mass-produce 16nm FinFET chips in 2014

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) is the leading mobile chip foundry, making the majority of world’s mobile chips, including Nvidia’s Tegra chips and Apple’s A6 chip, too. They’ve now ...
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TSMC Offers Its FinFET Technology to Academia for IC Design Skills Development

HSINCHU, Taiwan, R.O.C., Feb. 3, 2023 – TSMC today announced the launch of its “TSMC University FinFET Program,” aimed at developing future IC design talent for the industry and empowering academic ...
Semiconductor Engineering

The Future Of FinFETs At 5nm And Beyond

While contact gate pitch (GP) and fin pitch (FP) scaling continues to provide higher performance and lower power to finFET platforms, controlling RC parasitics and achieving higher transistor ...
Digi Times

New NXP automotive processors built using TSMC 16nm FinFET process

NXP Semiconductors and TSMC have jointly announced volume production of NXP's S32G2 vehicle network processors and S32R294 radar processor built using TSMC's 16nm FinFET process technology. This marks ...
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TSMC Certifies Synopsys' Digital and Custom Design Platforms on TSMC 5nm FinFET Process Technology

IC Compiler II and Design Compiler Graphical provide a complete digital implementation flow delivering optimized power, performance, area, and full via pillar support StarRC, PrimeTime, NanoTime, and ...
Digi Times

SMIC sees 14nm process start generating revenues

Semiconductor Manufacturing International (SMIC) started generating revenues from 14nm FinFET process technology in the fourth quarter of 2019, when the China-based pure-play foundry saw its gross ...
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Synopsys and UMC Collaborate to Accelerate Development of UMC’s 14-nm FinFET Process

First collaboration milestone speeds validation of IP and design correlation on UMC's 14-nm FinFET process Process qualification vehicle validates key process and IP test structures Tapeout helps ...
Electronic Design

Process Boosts Next-Gen FinFET Gate Reliability

Imec recently unveiled strained Germanium devices based on a silicon-replacement process, a first according to the research center. The process involves growing a Ge/SiGe quantum-well heterostructure ...
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SMIC commences small-scale trial production of its second-gen N+1 process

At an interactive platform recently, the Shanghai-based Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp (SMIC) hinted that it has started small-scale trial production of its second-generation N+1 ...
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Denton's Ion Beam Deposition Technology Will Challenge Applied Materials' Overengineered ALD System

Logic semiconductor manufacturers plan to replace FinFET devices with Gate All Around at sub-3nm nodes. Applied Materials has introduced a complex seven chamber system with Atomic Layer Deposition as ...
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Faraday Launches Cortex-A53-based Platform to Accelerate FinFET SoC Development

HSINCHU, Taiwan--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Faraday Technology Corporation (TWSE: 3035), leading ASIC design service and IP provider, today launched SoCreative!VI™ A600 SoC development platform implemented in ...