The company rolling out Australia's National Broadband Network (NBN) has revealed that it is replacing copper lines where necessary in rolling out its fibre-to-the-node (FttN) network. NBN CEO Bill ...
Today’s sub-22-nanometer chips are placing a strain on the ability to connect their billions of transistors with traditional copper interconnects. As the number of metallization layers escalates from ...
Copper resistivity will remain a challenge for the semiconductor industry, but chip designers are likely to use hierarchical design workarounds to modify the metal for linewidths at the 45 nm ...
Copper resistivity will remain a challenge for the semiconductor industry, altough design workarounds will likely be used to modify the metal for linewidths at the 45nm technology node, according to ...
San Jose, Calif. – July 13, 2009 – Novellus Systems (NASDAQ:NVLS) announced today that it has developed an advanced Hollow Cathode Magnetron (HCM®) IONX™ PVD copper seed process that will enable ...