Tag: manufacturing
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Bringing the 5G Vision Into Focus: 6 Questions with Dan Rodriguez Dan Rodriguez, Vice President and General Manager for Intel’s Network Platforms Group, sees vast opportunities in a future with fully transformed 5G networks that are agile, flexible, and scalable. Watch his recent interview or read the Q&A below to discover how Intel is accelerating this network transformation—and providing tremendous potential for communications service providers, enterprises, and society. The following excerpt...
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Maskmaking – 50 Years of History in Enabling Moore’s Law Will Continue with EUV If a picture is worth a thousand words, how many words is a photomask worth? SPIE’s 2017 Advanced Lithography Conference is underway and Dr. Frank Abboud, Vice President Technology Manufacturing Group and General Manager, Intel Mask Operation kicked off his keynote presentation “Photomask Technology Challenges for Upcoming technology Nodes” by comparing the amount of digitized data in a 14nm photomask...
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EUV Lithography – Progress on the Journey to Manufacturing Magic SPIE’s annual Advanced Lithography conference is underway, and as Intel’s Britt Turkot, senior principal engineer in Logic Technology Development Lithography, described in her keynote, significant strides have been made in EUV lithography over the past year taking the technology from a question of if to a question of when. EUVL is solidly on a path to HVM insertion as soon...
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A sneak peek at chips of the future What IS IEDM? IEDM stands for the International Electron Devices Meeting, and it is THE international forum for nanoscale device technology. Papers at this forum represent the “best-of-the-best” in device accomplishments for the calendar year. 1400 people attended the conference, with an acceptance rate for papers of ~35% (and that includes the invited papers!) The forum oscillates in location between...
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What’s Behind the Products you Love? When your computing device – be it a smartphone, tablet, or Ultrabook – just ‘works,’ you never have to think about where it came from or how it works. It just does. It’s your window to the world. It’s your connection to your friends and family. It’s how you get your work done. It’s how you shop. It’s how you...
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Enforcing Moore’s Law through Technology Research – Part 4 Welcome to the fourth installment! I've been blogging about research progress towards making compound semiconductors mainstream and talking about both challenges and opportunities. Enforcing Moore's Law through Technology Research Enforcing Moore's Law through Technology Research - Part 2 Enforcing Moore's Law through Technology Research - Part 3 In this blog, I'll update the progress and give a look ahead to...
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A Minute On Manufacturing Access You may have seen an announcement today from privately-held Achronix, which plans to start manufacturing a future line of FPGA products on our forthcoming 22 nanometer chip-making process.As many of you know, Intel enjoys a multi-year lead on manufacturing and process technology. Our factories or "fabs" are our prized possession. In fact, we just recently announced another $6-8 billion multi-year...
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Transistors: Past, Present, Future, and Future-er Today I had the privilege of presenting a plenary talk at the 2010 Device Research Conference (DRC) at Notre Dame University in South Bend, Indiana. DRC is one of the premier conferences in the semiconductor industry, and the focus is on what kinds of semiconductor devices will need to be researched now for them to be ready for production use...
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Sneak Peek – Intel Developer Forum Preview In San Francisco Sept. 22-24, "the world's biggest geekfest" will take place at Moscone Center West. In its 12th year, the Intel Developer Forum highlights Intel's upcoming technology advancements and product plans to top CIOs, CTOs, hardware and software experts and industry analysts, bloggers and media.< For breaking news today ahead of IDF, please visit here >Next week, we will...
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Intel News Ahead of IDF: New Chips; Manufacturing Efforts Ahead of what will be a packed Intel Developer Forum, Sept. 22-24 in San Francisco, here's some news around a newly planned family of future "embedded" processors for non-PC equipment and gear code-named Jasper Forest -- and details around our manufacturing prowess, specifically in our shift to 32 nanometer production.< Click here for an IDF preview -- and/or all of...
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