Semiconductor Engineering

How FinFET Device Performance Is Affected By Epitaxial Process Variations

As the need to scale transistors to ever-smaller sizes continues to press on technology designers, the impact of parasitic resistance and capacitance can approach or even outpace other aspects of ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Using A Virtual DOE To Predict Process Windows And Device Performance Of Advanced FinFET Technology

With continuing finFET device process scaling, micro loading control becomes increasingly important due to its significant impact on yield and device performance [1-2]. Micro-loading occurs when the ...
Digi Times

Samsung completes qualification of 2nd-gen 10nm process technology

Samsung Electronics has announced that its second-generation 10nm FinFET process technology, 10LPP (Low Power Plus), has been qualified and is ready for production. With further enhancement in 3D ...
EDN

Mentor Graphics Certified for TSMC 10nm FinFET Process Technology

Mentor Graphics partnered with TSMC to add a spectrum of new capabilities for their mutual customers' adoption of 10nm FinFET technology. The new capabilities include advanced double patterning, DRC ...
EDN

From FinFET to GAA: Samsung’s fab journey to 3 nm and 2 nm

Samsung Electronics has announced that its development of the 3 nm gate-all-around (GAA) process called 3GAE is on track and that it has made available version 0.1 of its process design kit (PDK) in ...
Business Wire

Cadence Achieves EDA Certification for TSMC 5nm and 7nm+ FinFET Process Technologies to Facilitate Mobile and HPC Design Creation

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:CDNS) today announced its continued collaboration with TSMC to certify its design solutions for TSMC 5nm and 7nm+ FinFET process ...
Android

Samsung Gets Ready for 14nm FinFET Chips

TSMC and Global Foundries have already announced their plans for 14nm and 16nm FinFET chips, that they should start building in 2014, and then we’ll probably see them no sooner than 2015, which is ...
ExtremeTech

GlobalFoundries announces new 7nm FinFET process, full node shrink

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Digi Times

SMIC to move 12nm FinFET process to risk production by year-end 2019

China's Semiconductor Manufacturing International (SMIC) has kicked off volume production of 14nm FinFET chips, and plans to move a newer 12nm FinFET process to risk production by the end of 2019, ...
Gizmochina

Samsung Kickstarts Mass Production of Its 2nd-Gen 10nm FinFET Process Technology

Samsung isn’t all about smartphone as the world’s top smartphone vendor also has interests in electronics, display panels, and semiconductor manufacture. Samsung is even a leading name in advanced ...
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 ...