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Capacity Tightens as Shortage Fears Rise
As older fabs close and relatively few new fabs are coming online, total fab capacity is staying flat. SICAS reported the number of actual wafer starts per week is improving quickly, while capacity declines. SEMI said installed fab capacity will decline 4% this year, as 31 older fabs close. Low capex spending has analysts predicting chip shortages. More
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Intel Chip Vision: Run Slow to Stay Cool
Keeping power under control at data centers is causing a radical reassessment of chip design, according to Shekhar Borkar, Intel's director of MPU research. Cramming many cores on a die, most of them running at very low frequencies at operating voltages of less than half a volt, is likely to happen over the next decade. And self-aware systems will poll the processors about chip aging issues, such as NBTI.
Packaging: Weathering the Down Cycles
The advanced semiconductor packaging industry has learned how to weather the downcycles and is busy looking ahead to a better year in 2010, said Jim Walker, vice president of semiconductor manufacturing research at Gartner Inc.Applied to Acquire Semitool for $364M
Applied Materials will acquire Semitool for ~$364M, positioning Applied in the growing markets of wafer-level packaging and copper memory interconnects. Dean Freeman, equipment analyst at Gartner Inc., said the acquisition will give Applied a fresh start in copper deposition, after its internal effort was abandoned two years ago.
Rugged Nano Films to Enable Applications
Stronger nanoparticle films that are easier to handle have been developed by Vanderbilt University researchers. "Our films are so resilient that we can pick them up with a pair of tweezers and move them around on a surface without tearing," said James Dickerson, assistant professor of physics at Vanderbilt.
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