Modern chips are manufactured on slabs of silicon less than a millimeter thick. But semiconductor companies try to slice these silicon wafers thinner and thinner to squeeze more performance out of ...

Three companies have made headlines for their efforts, and failures, to produce polysilicon in the US this year.

Elias Valverde II / Staff Photographer TAIPEI — Taiwanese silicon wafer manufacturer GlobalWafers said Friday it would invest an additional $4 billion in the United States to meet growing customer ...

With a thickness of only 20 µm and a diameter of 300 mm, Infineon’s silicon power wafers are the thinnest in the industry. These ultra-thin wafers are a quarter the thickness of a human hair and half ...

Backside power delivery is being called a game changer — a breakthrough technology and the next great enabler in CMOS scaling. It promises significant PPA advances, including faster switching, lower ...

Oct 29, 2024, Munich – 29 October 2024 – Infineon Technologies AG (FSE: IFX / OTCQX: IFNNY) announced it has unveiled an advance in handling and processing “the thinnest silicon power wafers ever ...

Prices may be falling, and competition is fierce, but the silicon wafer industry is still booming as China strives to build an independent supply chain for advanced semiconductors. Against this ...

Private equity firm ZMC has announced via press release that it has acquired a controlling stake in Pure Wafer, the largest semiconductor silicon solutions and services company in the United States.

The big picture: Infineon has developed the world's thinnest silicon power wafers, measuring just 20 micrometers in thickness – about the same as a human hair. These wafers promise significant ...

SHERMAN, Texas (KXII) - Since breaking ground in December of 2022, the idea that GlobalWafers America should be in Sherman, TX has become reality. GWA President Mark England says the 300 millimeter ...

As great as silicon is for semiconductor applications, it has one weakness in that using it for lasers isn’t very practical. Never say never though, as it turns out that you can now grow lasers ...

imec, a Belgium-based research and innovation hub in nanoelectronics and digital technologies, has announced “a significant milestone in silicon photonics” with the successful demonstration of ...