The Chinese unit of Netherlands-based Nexperia has locked in supplies of silicon wafers from local firms to cover its entire ...

At this year's IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM 2025), imec, a research and innovation hub in advanced ...

The AI startup Cerebras has shown that a single wafer-scale Cerebras CS-1 can outperform one of the fastest supercomputers in the US by more than 200 times for physics simulations and many AI ...

Every wafer test touch-down requires a balance between a good electrical contact and preventing damage to the wafer and probe card. Done wrong, it can ruin a wafer and the customized probe card and ...

A new film-thickness measurement system promises to collapse wafer inspection times delivering full 300 mm-wafer thickness maps in under a heartbeat and boosting throughput for semiconductor fabs.

Researchers in Japan have developed a new method for making 5-cm (2-in) wafers of diamond that could be used for quantum memory. The ultra-high purity of the diamond allows it to store a staggering ...