Across the semiconductor industry, both FD-SOI and finFET transistor technologies are in high volume production, with IC manufacturers looking to extend both technologies to gain additional ...

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First collaboration milestone speeds validation of IP and design correlation on UMC's 14-nm FinFET process Process qualification vehicle validates key process and IP test structures Tapeout helps ...

Samsung has officially confirmed today that it has completed the qualification of 8nm FinFET LPP (Low Power Plus) process and it is now ready for production. The company has also stated that the new ...

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, ...

Providing higher performance and power efficiency over the older 10nm FinFET process, Samsung noted that the 8nm process should become production-ready after qualifying the initial testing. Samsung ...

One of the long-term ramifications of the tensions between the US and China has been an acceleration of China's efforts to move its government and corporate users towards natively-produced ...

Samsung has announced that it has geared up into mass production of its 2nd generation 10nm FinFET manufacturing process technology, moving from 10nm LPE (Low Power Early) to 10nm LPP (Low Power Plus) ...

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 ...