Semiconductor consolidation is the trend of semiconductor companies collaborating in order to come to a practical synergy with the goal of being able to operate in a business model that can sustain profitability.
Since the rapid adoption of the modern day chip in the 1960s, most companies involved in producing semiconductors were extremely vertically integrated. Semiconductor companies owned and operated their own fabrication plants and also the processing technologies that facilitated the creation of the chips. Research, design, testing, production, and manufacturing were all kept "in house".
Advances in the semiconductor industry made the market extremely competitive and companies began to use a technology roadmap that helped set goals for the industry. This roadmap came to be known as Moore's Law, a statistical trend seen by Intel's co-founder Gordon Moore in which the number of transistors on an integrated circuit is doubled approximately every 2 years. This increase in transistor numbers meant that chips were getting smaller and faster as time progressed.
As chips continued to get faster, so did the levels of sophistication within the circuitry. Companies were constantly updating machinery to be able to keep up with production demands and overhauls of newer circuits. Companies raced to make transistors smaller in order to pack more of them on the same size silicon and enable faster chips. This practice became known as "shrinkage".
Companies were now in a race against each other and themselves to create the next fastest chip, as all goals were to meet or exceed Moore's Law. With the shrinking of sizes in semiconductors, production became much more intricate. Fabrication machines, which were producing chips at the millimeter level in the 1960s, were now operating in the micrometer and heading into the nanometer scale. , most cutting edge processor makers are working in the 32 nm level and heading into full 22 nm production; sizes comparable to the human DNA strand.
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Intro into the relation between physical and structural properties; introduction into different X-Ray techniques; examples of successful technological transfer using X-Ray techniques;
Structural prope
This course explains the origin of optical and electrical properties of semiconductors. The course elaborates how they change when the semiconductors are reduced to sizes of few nanometers. The course
This course introduces advanced fabrication methods enabling the manufacturing of novel micro- and nanosystems (NEMS/MEMS). Both top-down techniques (lithography, stenciling, scanning probes, additive
Selon la loi de Rock, du nom de son découvreur , le coût d'une fonderie de semi-conducteurs double tous les quatre ans, car le procédé de fabrication, la photolithographie, utilisé depuis une quarantaine d’années se rapproche toujours plus de ses limites physiques. En 2003, le prix d’une unité de fabrication était de l’ordre de 2 à de dollars. En 2004, pour la seule mise à niveau des installations, Intel a annoncé un investissement de plus de dollars dans son usine Fab12 en Arizona pour la fabrication de puces à partir de wafers de de diamètre, qui ont remplacé les wafers vers la fin 2005.
In the microelectronics industry, a semiconductor fabrication plant (commonly called a fab; sometimes foundry) is a factory for semiconductor device fabrication. Fabs require many expensive devices to function. Estimates put the cost of building a new fab over one billion U.S. dollars with values as high as 3–4billionnotbeinguncommon.TSMCinvested9.3 billion in its Fab15 300 mm wafer manufacturing facility in Taiwan. The same company estimations suggest that their future fab might cost $20 billion.
droite|150px Le terme fabless, contraction des mots anglophones fabrication et less (sans usine, sans unité de fabrication), désigne une société qui conçoit ses produits et sous-traite l'intégralité de sa fabrication. Le modèle a d'abord été développé dans le secteur des semi-conducteurs puis s'est développé à tous les secteurs d'activité. Le terme fabless est introduit en 2001 lorsque Serge Tchuruk, dirigeant d'Alcatel, annonce une stratégie de cessions de ses centres de production pour se concentrer sur la conception de produits et la sous-traitance pour la fabrication.
Plonge dans l'évolution et les limites potentielles de la loi de Moore, analysant son impact sur l'industrie des semi-conducteurs et l'innovation technologique.
Couvre l'intégration de processus dans la fabrication de semi-conducteurs, y compris le processus à double puits, les méthodes d'isolation, l'ajustement de la tension de seuil et la formation de siliciure.
Introduit la conception de circuits intégrés CMOS analogiques et souligne l'importance de bonnes compétences en conception analogique.
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