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- |Dec 16, 2019|
The IoT and automotive markets use devices fabricated at a wide range of technology nodes. Taking advances made at 300 mm and applying them via upgrades to 200 mm equipment is a cost appropriate...
- |Dec 3, 2019|
Addressing the critical need for higher wafer edge yield, Lam has introduced new capabilities in its Corvus® etch and Coronus® plasma bevel clean systems. Chipmakers have long sought to overcome...
- |Nov 22, 2019|
It is an exciting time to be in the semiconductor industry and driving technology development which is fueling the intelligent, interconnected systems that will transform the way we work and live....
- |Nov 18, 2019|
Atomic layer etching and deposition processes offer atomic scale control through the use of self-limiting reactions. Yang Pan, corporate vice president of advanced technology development, shares...
- |Oct 30, 2019|
The SEMICON Europa tradeshow, the annual premier event for the global electronics industry in Europe, will take place November 12-15, 2019, at Messe München in Munich, Germany. The event connects...
- |Oct 28, 2019|
Moore’s Law has been the center of the semiconductor universe, dominated by a singular focus and a relentless drive to reduce transistor size and integrate more, smaller, faster transistors on...
- |Oct 24, 2019|
Technology experts and business leaders will be heading to the Advanced Semiconductor Technology Conference (ASTC) 2019, organized by SEMI Southeast Asia. Held November 7-8, 2019 at the Marina Bay...
- |Oct 7, 2019|
The science and technology of materials, interfaces, and processing will be in the spotlight at the AVS 66th International Symposium and Exhibition, being held October 20-25 in Columbus, Ohio....
- |Sep 30, 2019|
The 21st Semiconductor Exhibition (SEDEX) will be held this year at COEX in Seoul, Korea, October 8-11. The tradeshow will cover the full spectrum of the semiconductor industry supply chain; it...
- |Sep 30, 2019|
The fall meeting of the Electrochemical Society will be held October 13-17 in Atlanta, Georgia. A forum for the latest scientific and technical developments in both electrochemistry and solid...
- |Sep 9, 2019|
The largest microelectronics event in Taiwan is coming to TaiNEX this fall, welcoming more than 45,000 visitors from around the world. From September 18-20, leaders from the semiconductor industry...
- |Sep 3, 2019|
At an industry and investor event held during the August 2019 Flash Memory Summit, Lam management made the case for why semiconductor innovation needs to accelerate in the 5G era and how Lam is...
- |Aug 7, 2019|
With the introduction of two new products for 3D NAND manufacturing, Lam expands its stress management product portfolio. The VECTOR DT® PECVD and EOS® GS wet etch systems enable continued 3D...
- |Jul 15, 2019|
Food security is a growing concern. With the world’s population forecast to increase from 7.6 billion in 2017 to 9.8 billion by 2050, it’s estimated that an additional billion metric tons of...
- |Jul 12, 2019|
The rapid pace of semiconductor evolution places huge demands on the companies making the equipment used to build integrated circuits. With each new silicon node comes a host of new requirements,...
- |Jul 8, 2019|
The AVS 19th International Conference on Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD 2019) featuring the 6th International Atomic Layer Etching Workshop (ALE 2019) will take place Sunday, July 21–Wednesday,...
- |Jun 24, 2019|
Gain insights, innovations, and intelligence in San Francisco this July 9-11 at the annual SEMICON West tradeshow. Industry leaders from around the world will gather for more than 80 hours of...
- |Jun 10, 2019|
Richard Gottscho, executive vice president and CTO of Lam Research, sat down with Semiconductor Engineering to talk about how to utilize more data from sensors in manufacturing equipment, the...
- |May 13, 2019|
Electrochemistry and solid state science and technology will be featured at the 235th ECS Meeting, to be held May 26–30 in Dallas, Texas. Over the week, nearly two thousand talks will be given...
- |May 6, 2019|
Building semiconductors is an incredibly exacting process, with critical dimensions posing significant equipment challenges – and with the possibility that small process excursions can cause the...
- |Apr 29, 2019|
On May 7, 2019, semiconductor leaders and industry experts from around the world will convene at the Malaysia International Trade & Exhibition Centre (MITEC) in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia to showcase...
- |Apr 24, 2019|
Addressing a need for self-maintaining semiconductor equipment, Lam has developed an etch productivity solution that extends the mean time between cleans (MTBC), a major limiter of etch system...
- |Mar 25, 2019|
More than most industries, ours is identified with a single element, silicon. Consider the self-adopted naming conventions of all the places that want to be recognized as members of the...
- |Mar 19, 2019|
New sensing and actuating technologies for cars are introducing a new generation of 200 mm tools. Michelle Bourke, strategic marketing director in the customer support group, shares her thoughts...
- |Mar 4, 2019|
At this year’s SEMICON China, industry leaders from around the globe will come together for this fast-growing and dynamic microelectronics market to view products, technologies and brands that...
- |Feb 11, 2019|
The SPIE Advanced Lithography symposium brings together leaders across the semiconductor industry to discuss the latest challenges in lithography and patterning. Held at the San Jose Convention...
- |Jan 22, 2019|
Our increasingly connected and ever “smarter” world generates increasing amounts of data, putting pressure on manufacturers who face new technical challenges in delivering the increasing...
- |Jan 10, 2019|
As one of the largest tradeshows and exhibitions in the region, SEMICON Korea brings together the best and the brightest of the semiconductor industry. Held from January 23 to January 25 at COEX,...
- |Jan 2, 2019|
Welcome back to the Lam Blog! To help start the new year, we want to share some of our favorite stories from 2018. Some of these articles highlight the driving forces in our industry, such as...
- |Dec 10, 2018|
Parents sharing stories about their childhoods and the miles of snow they had to walk through to get to school is not a new pastime. In fact, these anecdotes are often used to compare current...
- |Dec 3, 2018|
Robotics is the next technological revolution. Fiber optics, cables, and chips are shaping and directing our future. Here, we review some robotic milestones and take a peek into Lam’s commitment...
- |Nov 26, 2018|
The Electronics Packaging Technology Conference (EPTC 2018), an international event organized by the IEEE Reliability/CPMT/ED Singapore Chapter, will be held December 4–7 at the Resorts World...
- |Nov 12, 2018|
From November 13-16, the annual SEMICON Europa tradeshow will be at Messe München in Munich, Germany. Tens of thousands of highly influential industry attendees from around the world will convene...
- |Oct 29, 2018|
For hundreds of years, libraries have assembled and provided access to major written collections, serving as vital centers for those who thirst for knowledge. More recently, libraries have been...
- |Oct 15, 2018|
The full semiconductor industry supply chain will be on display at the 20th Semiconductor Exhibition (SEDEX) at COEX in Seoul, Korea, October 24-26. The tradeshow will showcase memory, sensor,...
- |Oct 8, 2018|
The AVS 65th International Symposium and Exhibition begins on October 21st in beautiful Long Beach, California. Scientists, engineers, and industry leaders from around the globe will gather to...
- |Sep 24, 2018|
Starting on September 30, scientists, engineers, researchers, and industry professionals from around the globe will meet in Cancun, Mexico, at the Americas International Meeting on...
- |Sep 4, 2018|
Atomic layer etching (ALE) is one of the chipmaking processes that makes our data-driven world possible. After being confined to the laboratory for decades, ALE has awakened to become the most...
- |Aug 27, 2018|
This fall, SEMICON Taiwan, the largest microelectronics event in Taiwan, will welcome more than 40,000 visitors from around the globe. Taking place September 5-7 at the Taipei Nangang Exhibition...
- |Aug 13, 2018|
Electroplating is a common manufacturing process that applies a thin layer of one metal onto another. The U.S. penny, for example, has been made of zinc with a thin, electroplated coating of...
- |Jul 23, 2018|
One of the most important conferences for the atomic layer processing community, the AVS 18th International Conference on Atomic Layer Deposition featuring the 5th International Atomic Layer...
- |Jul 2, 2018|
The big ideas shaping the world will be in the spotlight at SEMICON West, a premier microelectronics industry tradeshow. Held this year on July 11-13 in San Francisco, the show will feature...
- |Jun 21, 2018|
This month, copper interconnects turned 20. That’s probably something like 200 in “technology years” considering the pace of innovation today. Yet even after 20 years of advances in...
- |May 14, 2018|
Industry advancements and novel transformations in semiconductors will be addressed at SEMICON Southeast Asia 2018 from May 22-24 at the new Malaysia International Trade & Exhibition Centre...
- |Apr 16, 2018|
From PCRAM and MRAM to RRAM and more, there’s a whole new alphabet soup of memory technologies making their way to the fab. Fueling this development are technology advances in gaming and mobile...
- |Mar 5, 2018|
As one of the semiconductor industry’s largest annual tradeshow, SEMICON China is a great place to connect, collaborate, and innovate with the region’s growing chipmaking business. Attendees...
- |Feb 26, 2018|
Looking ahead into the new year in technology often proves quite interesting and educational. For 2018, one well-established market – automotive – is gaining the attention of many technology...
- |Feb 20, 2018|
Continuing to make device components ever smaller and closely packed together is one of the challenges faced by the advanced patterning community every day. From February 25 to March 1, experts in...
- |Jan 22, 2018|
For more than thirty years, SEMICON Korea has been known as one of the largest semiconductor shows in the Korean semiconductor industry. This premier event for electronics manufacturing will...
- |Jan 16, 2018|
New semiconductor applications are ever changing and improving our lives, from new smartphones and wearables to healthcare, factory automation, and artificial intelligence. The humble memory chip...
- |Dec 4, 2017|
As a premier exposition for the electronics manufacturing supply chain, SEMICON Japan will brighten up Tokyo this December with the theme “dreams start here.” The SEMI tradeshows are each...
- |Oct 30, 2017|
For the first time, SEMICON Europa will be co-located with productronica – one of the world’s leading trade fairs for electronics development and production – at Messe München in Munich,...
- |Oct 23, 2017|
Some of the greatest minds in science and technology will be convening in Tampa for the 64th annual AVS International Symposium & Exhibition starting on October 29, 2017. Among the topics of...
- |Sep 25, 2017|
We often hear that advanced chips contain billions of transistors – an incredible, mind-blowing fact to be sure – but did you know that large-scale integrated chips (that are the size of a...
- |Sep 20, 2017|
Scientists, engineers, researchers, and industry professionals from around the globe will descend upon National Harbor, Maryland, this October to interact at the 232nd Electrochemical Society...
- |Sep 11, 2017|
Multiple patterning continues to be an important technique for enabling pitch shrinking in advanced chip designs. However, as the number of steps grows, managing process variation is a key...
- |Sep 5, 2017|
The semiconductor manufacturing community is ready to connect at SEMICON Taiwan, the premier event for microelectronics manufacturing in Taiwan. This year, the event is expected to attract more...
- |Aug 28, 2017|
“Data is giving rise to a new economy” – The Economist (2017). This compelling reality makes the continued development of high-capacity data storage technologies like 3D NAND ever more...
- |Aug 7, 2017|
Chipmakers want every part of the wafer to produce, or yield, good die. Advances in process technologies over the years have just about made this a reality, even as feature dimensions continue to...
- |Jul 31, 2017|
The industry’s transition to 3D NAND is being driven by several important advantages, including its ability to deliver higher capacity with a lower cost per bit. These vertical architectures...
- |Jul 10, 2017|
The demands of our modern world for more connectivity, functionality, and capacity from our electronic devices – alongside the seemingly endless imagination for new applications – are pushing...
- |Jul 3, 2017|
If you’re part of the semiconductor industry, you know there are few better networking and technical sharing venues than the SEMICON tradeshows, and SEMICON West is no exception. Being held in...
- |Jun 12, 2017|
Used to extend the capabilities of conventional lithography, multiple patterning is a process of overlaying patterns of larger dimensions to achieve smaller and/or more tightly packed features. In...
- |May 15, 2017|
Imagine being able to deposit a film of material just a few atomic layers at a time. As impossible as that sounds, atomic layer deposition (ALD) is a reality. In fact, it’s being used in an...
- |Apr 10, 2017|
Southeast Asia is a major hub for the chip industry’s assembly, packaging, and test services – back-end manufacturing processes that are becoming an increasingly important topic of discussion....
- |Apr 7, 2017|
Panel-level fan-out chip manufacturing – using large square or rectangular substrates instead of wafers – is being developed as a means to lower the cost of back-end processes for some...
- |Mar 6, 2017|
In recent years, SEMICON China has become the semiconductor industry’s largest annual tradeshow, with much of its popularity likely due to the region’s growing chipmaking business. Attendees...
- |Feb 21, 2017|
It really is remarkable how our favorite tech products continue to become more compact and powerful, with today’s nanoscale chipmaking quite literally pushing the limits of what is possible. One...
- |Feb 6, 2017|
For its 30th anniversary, SEMICON Korea anticipates hosting its largest show ever, with an estimated 40,000 attendees converging at COEX in Seoul on February 8-10, 2017. Korea is the world’s...
- |Jan 17, 2017|
Ever open the body of your smartphone (perhaps unintentionally) and see small, black rectangles stuck on a circuit board? Those black rectangles are packaged chips. The external chip structure...
- |Dec 12, 2016|
This year marks the 40th anniversary for SEMICON Japan, one of the most extensive international exhibitions of semiconductor equipment and materials. Each SEMI tradeshow has its own unique...
- |Nov 28, 2016|
Did you know that different patterns require different types of multiple patterning? Today’s advanced chips are more complex than ever before, with transistors and other structures that are...
- |Nov 14, 2016|
Greek philosopher Democritus (460-370 BC) first proposed the existence of an ultimate particle, which he described as “atomos.” He probably never dreamed that one day there would be devices so...
- |Nov 7, 2016|
State-of-the-art advances in plasma research and thin film science will be discussed at the AVS 63rd International Symposium and Exhibition, being held November 6-11 in Nashville, Tennessee. This...
- |Sep 26, 2016|
Electrochemistry and solid-state science and technology will come together at the PRiME 2016 Meeting, held October 2-7 in Honolulu, Hawaii. One of the largest research conferences in the world,...
- |Sep 12, 2016|
Transistors are at the heart of our cherished electronics. Millions, or even billions, of these tiny switches go to work for us when we check our mobile phones, use our computers, start our...
- |Sep 6, 2016|
With the introduction of Lam’s latest Flex™ dielectric etch system, we have expanded our atomic layer etching (ALE) portfolio to include both conductor and dielectric etch. At the 10 nm...
- |Aug 29, 2016|
The semiconductor manufacturing community is gearing up for SEMICON Taiwan, the largest microelectronics event in Taiwan, which is expected to attract more than 40,000 visitors from around the...
- |Aug 9, 2016|
Addressing critical needs for next-generation 3D NAND and DRAM devices, Lam has developed the industry’s first all-atomic layer deposition (ALD) low-fluorine tungsten (LFW) fill process with its...
- |Aug 1, 2016|
Multiple patterning is an innovative approach to scaling semiconductors, but it also poses significant challenges controlling process variations. Lam’s Rick Gottscho, executive vice president of...
- |Jul 25, 2016|
Chip designs are changing. Features are shrinking to incredibly small dimensions and radically new device architectures are being devised to supply consumers with smaller, more powerful...
- |Jul 17, 2016|
The semiconductor industry has long relied on the development of innovative device architectures and technologies to continue device scaling. Making these a reality in production, however,...
- |Jul 11, 2016|
The semiconductor industry uses so many unique terms, it practically has its own language. To keep up on the latest developments, knowing that “language” can be really helpful. For instance,...
- |Jun 27, 2016|
What’s left after the relatively easy semiconductor manufacturing issues have been solved? The wicked hard problems – including things like scaling transistors down to 5 nm, reducing power...
- |Jun 19, 2016|
Industry experts came together recently to discuss some of the critical challenges facing interconnect scaling. As the number of transistors on advanced chips continues to increase, fabricating...
- |May 23, 2016|
Dave Hemker, CTO at Lam Research, sat down with Semiconductor Engineering to look at some of the key issues on the process and manufacturing side, and some of the key developments that will...
- |May 16, 2016|
The continual scaling of device dimensions drives the need for ever smaller interconnects, the intricate wiring that links up to billions of individual components on a chip. As advanced devices...
- |Apr 25, 2016|
Building on its inaugural success last year, this year’s SEMICON Southeast Asia 2016 takes place April 26-28 at the SPICE Arena in Penang, Malaysia. Lam is pleased to be a premier sponsor of...
- |Apr 11, 2016|
Since its introduction in the 1980s, NAND flash memory has radically changed how we store our digital data. Remember ordering duplicate photos when getting camera film developed or burning your...
- |Mar 4, 2016|
The global semiconductor industry will be heading to the Shanghai New International Expo Centre for this year’s SEMICON China, which takes place March 15-17. Held in one of the largest and most...
- |Feb 29, 2016|
We often hear the word “inflection” used in the semiconductor industry, but what does it mean? In general, inflection refers to a point of change. In mathematics, for instance, an inflection...
- |Feb 15, 2016|
Is Moore’s Law still on track? Can transistors, already more than a thousand times smaller than a grain of sand, continue to get even smaller? This is the challenge faced by the advanced...
- |Feb 1, 2016|
One of the most astounding aspects of semiconductor chips is their incredibly small scale. Practically measured in atoms, some feature dimensions are on the order of nanometers (nm) – that’s...
- |Jan 18, 2016|
With the new year underway, you may be wondering what lies ahead for the semiconductor world. Once again, Solid State Technology has checked in with industry leaders for their thoughts on the...
- |Jan 11, 2016|
From materials research to plasma fundamentals, Lam’s technologists are contributing to practical and theoretical developments in their fields. One way they help advance technology and expand...