Then you will need a special wire cutter. Not wirecutter - a wire cutter, that is a machine with a thin wire that cuts wafer into chips and minimizes dust. After that, you need an assembly machine ...

Yet unlike software, where industry leadership can shift in a matter of months, success in lithography is a slow-moving race ...

How much does it cost TSMC to start up its new chip-manufacturing plants on US soil? According to a new study by TechInsights ...

And here we’ve been complaining about Flat Pack No-Lead chips when this guy is prototyping with Ball Grid Array in a Wafer-Level Chip Scale Package (WLCSP). Haven’t heard that acronym before?

While not cutting-edge, that fab still produces reasonably advanced 12nm node chips ... to be what's known as a "test wafer" used to calibrate the lithography machines that pattern the circuitry ...

There may be dozens of photomasks to make one chip and hundreds of steps, both machine and human ... a layer of silicon dioxide insulation on the wafer's surface. The insulation is coated with ...

But as chip designs migrate to 10nm/7nm and beyond ... the industry also would like tools with more advanced machine learning capabilities, particularly in wafer inspection. “Machine learning will ...

from r/pcmasterrace 'Chip binning' is supposed to ... calibration of the hyper-complex lithography machines that etch the patterns onto the wafer that are then cut up into chips.