It sat inside of a big box whose job was to take silicon wafers in on one side and spit out integrated circuits on the other. [BrendaEM] never really divulges how she got her hands on something so ...

Silicon wafers are fundamental in manufacturing the electronic “chips” that pervade almost every aspect of our lives. New applications in IoT, wearable and mobile devices, self-driving cars, cloud ...

CAD Rendering of the Final Assembly of Project SWCFI (Silicon Wafer Center-Finding Improvement). This project explores improving the inspection process of silicon wafers for quality control in the ...

A team of engineers at Fudan University has successfully designed, built and run a 32-bit RISC-V microprocessor that uses molybdenum disulfide instead of silicon as its semiconductor component.

Ditching traditional silicon, commonplace for conventional processors and compute devices, this RISC-V-based microprocessor ... producing 300mm semiconductor wafers. The Cambridge boffins ...

This innovative solution is designed to meet the growing demand for high-throughput electro-optical testing of silicon photonic wafers driven by co-packaged optics (CPO) applications. The new test ...

MILPITAS, Calif. — May 1, 2024 — Worldwide silicon wafer shipments decreased 5.4% quarter-over-quarter to 2,834 million square inches in the first quarter of 2024, a 13.2% drop from the 3,265 million ...