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TSMC explores using 510x515 mm rectangular silicon wafers — tripling the usable area of current 300mm diameter tech
Instead of 300mm diameter wafers ... 300-mm silicon wafers and are crucial for producing AI processors for clients like Nvidia, AMD, Amazon, and Google. However, as AI chips grow in size and ...
PC Magazine11mon
12-inch wafer
A 300mm semiconductor wafer, which is the maximum wafer size in use as of 2024. Although 18-inch (450mm) wafers have been developed, the billions in cost to change all the chip-making machinery in ...
Optics28d
imec makes silicon photonics laser ‘breakthrough’ on 300 mm wafers
For that reason, the direct epitaxial growth of high-quality III-V optical gain materials selectively on large-size silicon ... the first full wafer-scale fabrication of electrically pumped GaAs-based ...
Electronics Weekly27d
First full wafer-scale fabrication of electrically-pumped GaAs-based nano-ridge lasers on 300 mm silicon wafers
Imec has demonstrated electrically-driven GaAs-based multi-quantum-well nano-ridge laser diodes fully, monolithically fabricated on 300 mm silicon wafers in ... materials selectively on large-size ...