Editorial: Nanometer Nonsense

Both leading foundries allowed customers to claim they were using a 4nm process when, in fact, they were using 5nm technology. This situation renders node names meaningless.
25Jul

SEMICON West. SMIC’s 7nm Chips. EUV changing Fab Economics

SEMICON West. SMIC’s 7nm Chips. EUV changing Fab Economics G. Dan Hutcheson The Chip Insider® SEMICON West was packed as the world’s silicon-birds came back to their migratory path, after two years of various COVID forced lockdowns, in an attempt to regain their bearings on where the industry was
22Jul

Temperatures are cooling off, but the path is still clear

Temperatures are cooling off, but the path is still clear Andrea Lati Order activity for semiconductor equipment continued to trend down, slipping to 89 degrees The rate of decline has moderated in the last two weeks following a steep drop in June The sentiment at SEMICON West was positive Equipment
21Jul

Teardown: Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 5G

Teardown: Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 5G Foldable phones, once thought to be a dream, have become a reality. While flip phones were introduced many years ago as one of the first iterations of expanding cell phone form factors, it wasn’t the screen that folded but more the phone housing and keyboard
21Jul

Teardown: Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Fold laptop

Teardown: Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Fold laptop Foldable electronics are growing in number but remain a niche market overall. Consumers are interested in the technology but the practicality of using foldable electronics is something that just hasn’t caught on in waves. While foldable smartphones have been
19Jul

RISC-V Extension Eliminates Division

RISC-V International, the governing body of the open-standard instruction set, recently approved four new specifications that address multiplication, bootloaders, and debugging, reducing the gap with Arm.
18Jul