The atomic layer etch (ALE) market is starting to heat up as chipmakers push to 10nm and beyond. ALE is a promising next-generation etch technology that has been in R&D for the last several years, but ...

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — During the Semicon West trade show, Applied Materials Inc. has rolled out a new etcher offering that could intensify the competition against Lam, TEL and others. The Centura ...

Over the past decade, the need for increasingly smaller, denser, more powerful chips has been driving semiconductor manufacturers to move away from planar structures in favor of increasingly complex ...

New Portfolio Leapfrogs the Competition with Innovative Etch Techniques and Chemistries to Support Development of Advanced Logic and Memory Solutions As modern technologies and devices continue to ...

On Wednesday, U.S. chip equipment maker Lam Research Corp (NASDAQ:LRCX) launched two new tools for building advanced artificial intelligence chips. The company introduced Akara, an innovative plasma ...

Applied Materials Inc. says it can do away with the middle etch-stop layer in copper dual-damascene/low-k stacks and provide better critical dimension (CD) control with its new EnTek Centura chamber.

Memory prices are grabbing headlines, but the more consequential story for the next decade of computing is unfolding one layer deeper in the supply chain. The specialized tools that etch, deposit, and ...