Credit: Tom's Hardware While the whole market was looking at the appointment of Lip-Bu Tan as Intel chief executive, there ...

Intel has run its initial lots of 18A wafers at its Arizona fab, with Fab 52 and Fab 62 pumping out Intel 18A wafers, ahead ...

The semiconductor industry is expanding rapidly as countries race to build new fabs. While it takes around 19 months to build a fab in Taiwan, it takes a whopping 38 months to build a fab in the U ...

Cycle time is the amount of time it takes to process a wafer lot in a fab from start to finish. Typically, a wafer lot consists of 25 wafers, which move through various process steps in a fab. An ...

TSMC will begin mass production of its next-gen A16 process technology in the second half of 2026 in Taiwan, while a third ...

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), the world’s largest contract chipmaker, plans to build a 1 nm process fab in southern Taiwan, according to Taiwan’s United Daily News.

A "minimal fab" is a small-scale semiconductor factory that does not require a cleanroom. It is a production system that consists of minimal equipment, a group of small manufacturing tools, such as ...

A typical large-scale fab houses a 430,000-square-foot cleanroom containing 2,000 process tools. Each tool requires an average of 50 individual process and utility connections, resulting in over ...