Every wafer test touch-down requires a balance between a good electrical contact and preventing damage to the wafer and probe card. Done wrong, it can ruin a wafer and the customized probe card and ...

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

Unable to scale horizontally, due to a combination of lithography delays and power constraints, manufacturers are stacking devices vertically. This has become essential as the proliferation of mobile ...

Researchers in Japan have developed a new method for making 5-cm (2-in) wafers of diamond that could be used for quantum memory. The ultra-high purity of the diamond allows it to store a staggering ...

The long-held skepticism around wafer-scale architectures is deep and goes back decades. Few have tried and all have failed, either for business or technology reasons, including the venerable Gene ...

The AI startup Cerebras has shown that a single wafer-scale Cerebras CS-1 can outperform one of the fastest supercomputers in the US by more than 200 times for physics simulations and many AI ...

The Chinese unit of Netherlands-based Nexperia has locked in supplies of silicon wafers from local firms to cover its entire 2026 production for one type of power chip, a document showed, after the ...

Samsung, SK hynix, and Micron are fighting each other over new 16-Hi HBM memory, as NVIDIA requests the new 16-Hi HBM memory ...

We initiate coverage on Soitec SOI with a EUR 190 fair value estimate and narrow moat rating supported by intangible assets. Shares currently trade at EUR 140, offering a 35% upside. Chips are ...

Cerebras Systems and the federal Department of Energy’s National Energy Technology Laboratory today announced that the company’s CS-1 system is more than 10,000 times faster than a graphics processing ...