2024 was a tough year for Samsung Foundry, the company’s semiconductor division. The poor yield of its 3nm wafers negatively ...

Process excursion, or any deviation in a certain process, significantly impacts the cost of semiconductor manufacturing process and product yield. During production, process excursion can be detected ...

Chipmakers are ramping new tools and methodologies to achieve sufficient yield faster, despite smaller device dimensions, a growing number of systematic defects, immense data volumes, and massive ...

Samsung Foundry is not exactly known to be the best chip manufacturer out there. The company has admitted that its current mass production of leading-edge process technologies is not on par with ...

TSMC has achieved a 60% yield in its 2-nanometer manufacturing process, according to reports from local Taiwanese media. Yield refers to the efficiency of a manufacturing node, measured by the number ...

What just happened? Samsung has committed to spending over $100 billion to improve its chip manufacturing arm, but the company is experiencing serious yield issues on its advanced process nodes that ...

How do you calculate your Process Sigma? Determining the lowest acceptable defect rate in your production is a way to ...

Why it matters: TSMC may be the current leader in process technologies, but Samsung is planning to take away its crown in the coming years. To that end, the Korean giant has already improved the yield ...