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The memory industry (1): The era of DRAM driving semiconductor manufacturing process improvement

Semiconductor is a high-tech industry that requires continuous investment in the development of cutting-edge technologies to create new economic value. With the advantage of entering the market early, ...
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DRAM MIMCAP process is next focus for IMEC 32-nm project

LONDON — Belgian research organization IMEC has extended its work on 32-nm CMOS device scaling to include a project on DRAM MIMCAP (metal-insulator-metal capacitors) process technology. The group says ...
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Startup remakes MOSFETs in 0.35-micron DRAM process

SAN FRANCISCO — Advanced Analogic Technologies Inc. is causing waves in the normally staid world of analog chip design by claiming it can build highly efficient power MOSFETs and low-dropout ...
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The memory industry (2): The era of makers utilizing manufacturing processes and equipment for both DRAM and 2D NAND flash

NAND flash was invented by Toshiba in 1989 and entered commercial mass production in the early 2000s. Since NAND flash has much faster access speed than mechanical hard drives, and since small-storage ...
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Samsung employee copies 10nm DRAM process notes and leaks them to China

One night, the lights in Samsung Electronics' semiconductor research building stayed on late as usual. It was that day when the hands of A, a core researcher in DRAM development at Samsung Electronics ...