From quartz sand to silicon wafers, the manufacturing process is critical for achieving the purity and quality needed for advanced semiconductor applications.

When contamination defects surface in advanced nodes, the root cause often spans tools, materials, and handling. This piece outlines how defect mapping, TEM, and SPC data converge to prove causation.

Semiconductor manufacturing is the foundation for technologies ranging from smartphones and electric vehicles to artificial intelligence and cloud computing. The process demands extreme precision in ...

ChEmpower Corp., a semiconductor materials company that develops polishing pads and chemical solutions, today announced Chakra, its first product designed to improve efficiency, reduce costs and ...

Specialty devices are the unsung heroes of modern life. For many in the semiconductor industry today, the spotlight is on the SiC and GaN power devices used in automotive, green energy, fast-charge ...

“We have 600 petabytes of data across Intel,” said Aziz Safa, corporate VP & GM Intel Foundry Automation at the recent PDF Solutions Users Conference. “The challenge is to be able to run algorithms on ...

Late defect discovery erodes yield, profit, and reliability. Here’s why inspection coverage and failure analysis drive ...

As the semiconductor industry moves to smaller scales, it must overcome several technical challenges. In 2025, we expect three key developments to make headlines: Gate-All-Around transistor designs, ...

Long and complex hiring cycles As compared to software hiring, semiconductor recruitment cannot rely on rapid technical ...