VLSI Symposia: Samsung eyes EUV for mainstream chip-making at 7nm

At VLSI 2018, Samsung unveiled its forthcoming 7nm FinFET platform technology, said to be the first mainstream semiconductor manufacturing technology to use extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography for single-patterning of middle- and back-end-of-the line features – EUV is expected to offer better pattern uniformity and cost advantages versus standard multiple-patterning approaches for extreme scaling. by Gary ...

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Four ways LEDs make cities smarter

Russ Sharer spells out four reasons for using LED lighting as the hardware foundation for smart city IoT connectivity. Smart cities demand smarter systems integration. If we are to build a variety of community and citizen services upon an internet of things (IoT) infrastructure deployed initially for outdoor lighting control, the network will require a ...

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UMC buys out Mie Fujitsu Semiconductor stake

 UMC has bought out the 84% shareholding held by Fujitsu in their four year-old  foundry jv Mie Fujitsu Semiconductor (MIFS). UMC paid  $520 million for the shares. The foundry now becomes a wholly-owned subsidiary of Fujitsu. “With existing 300mm fabs in Taiwan, China and Singapore, Japan-based MIFS will help customers further diversify their manufacturing risk ...

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Montreal researchers demo invisibility cloak

 Researchers from the Montreal National Institute for Scientific Research have demonstrated a new approach to creating an invisibility cloak. The Montreal researchers show hoe cloaking can be achieved by manipulating the frequency of light waves as they pass through an object. The cloak operates by selectively transferring energy from certain colours of the light wave ...

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ON Semi has MCM PWM buck regulators with integrated MOSFETs

Supporting an input voltage range of 4.5 V to 65 V, an output current of up to 10 A and output power of 100 W, ON Semiconductor’s FAN6500X family of buck converters combines the fixed frequency control scheme with flexible Type III compensation and fault protection. ON  has integrated its PowerTrench MOSFET technology to create ...

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