NAND Flash memory is the most competitive market in the semiconductor industry. With cost to manufacturer being the most important factor, manufacturers are forced to make the tradeoff between ...

As 40-nanometer NAND flash products are prepared for mass production, and as technologies emerge to achieve densities beyond 2 bits per cell (multilevel-cell technology), with 3- and 4-bit/cell ...

Semiconductor Engineering sat down to discuss lithography and photomask technologies with Gregory McIntyre, director of the Advanced Patterning Department at IMEC; Harry Levinson, senior fellow and ...

It also means solid state drives (SSD) with twice the capacity of current drives. This week, Intel and Micron officially announced their joint chip manufacturing venture, IM Flash Technologies (IMFT), ...

Intel Corp. and Micron Technology Inc. on Monday plan to announce the world’s first 25-nanometer NAND flash technology, which will make it possible to double the storage capacity of devices like ...

SanDisk Corporation and Toshiba Corporation announced the co-development of multi-level cell (MLC) NAND flash memory using 32-nanometer (nm) process technology to produce a 32-gigabit (Gb) ...

When IM Flash Technologies (IMFT) announced this week that its manufacturing a 25-nanometer (nm) NAND flash chip, the company also admitted that shrinking the technology much further may not be ...

It’s the tale of two promising and separate 3D chip architectures. One technology is slowly taking root, while the other one is heating up. 3D stacked-die using through-silicon vias (TSVs) is on the ...

Canon expects its nanoimprint lithography machine to ship this year, competing with ASML's EVU gear as economies around the world are keen to expand their chip production capacity on their home turfs, ...

These are the most-read tech stories during the week of December 4-8: Approximately 1,400 ASML equipment installed in China, limited application for advanced chip expected The number of ASML machines ...