Apple's long-time manufacturing partner, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), is preparing to raise prices for ...

A silicon wafer is a thin slice of crystalline silicon typically grown using the Czochralski process, which involves pulling a crystal seed from a molten silicon bath. A silicon wafer is a thin slice ...

Apple’s 2026 iPhones could become more expensive as the company moves to a 2nm A20 chip. Rising TSMC wafer prices may ...

Intel Foundry is making major strides in 2025, and that could help Intel close the lead on Apple Silicon. While Intel has taken aim at Apple's M4 in both performance and power efficiency, team blue ...

Major processes in semiconductor wafer fabrication: 1) wafer preparation, 2) pattern transfer, 3) doping, 4) deposition, 5) etching, and 6) packaging. The process of creating semiconductors can be ...

Semiconductor manufacturer Xanoptix (Merrimack, NH) has developed a wafer-scale process for the 3-D stacking of silicon with either GaAs or InP to make compound semiconductors. The company's Hybrid ...

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 ...

From large TSVs for MEMS to nanoTSVs for backside power delivery, cost-effective process flows for these interconnects are essential for making 2.5D and 3D packages more feasible. Through-silicon vias ...