Chinese semiconductor thread II

[PopularScience]

People Daily: Ion implater successfully commercialized, Kingston Semi received 60 orders

 

[dingyibvs]

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t used to be reliable. They now focus on clickbait trash. Long list of tech media that pivot to clickbait for more views.

Unfortunately it's what the market demands. I used to read both Tom's and Anandtech, and the two diverged as Tom's became clickbait and survived while Anandtech is now shutting down.

 

[antiterror13]

from a scientific perspective, it will be harder. it is simply a fact that even with comparable atomic absorption cross section, Sn is a solid, and Xe is a gas. That means atomic density of the Sn target is on the order of 1000x higher.

Nonetheless there are Xe based EUV sources in R&D:

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There was a 20 year old design for liquid Xe jet based LPP EUV:

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This eliminates problems with debris, but presents problems with cryogenic cooling.

Is there any other metal that can achieve better than Sn ?

 

[FairAndUnbiased]

Is there any other metal that can achieve better than Sn ?

What's the point? The problem with Sn isn't the photon absorption, it is with debris and droplet targeting. Using gas is to solve the debris and targeting problem while creating a photon absorption problem. IMO the gas model is still worth looking into though.

 

[spaceship9876]

Intel's market cap is typically in the range of $150 billion to $200 billion, making it one of the largest semiconductor companies. Qualcomm's market cap is generally lower, around $100 billion, which would pose a challenge for a direct acquisition without significant financial maneuvers.

intel's market cap is $93bn. Qualcomm's is $188bn.

 

[antiterror13]

Intel's market cap is typically in the range of $150 billion to $200 billion, making it one of the largest semiconductor companies. Qualcomm's market cap is generally lower, around $100 billion, which would pose a challenge for a direct acquisition without significant financial maneuvers.

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Intel market caps is relatively very small right now, much lower than Qualcomm

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[siegecrossbow]

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Intel market caps is relatively very small right now, much lower than Qualcomm

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Broadcom is a real monster post all those acquisition…

 

[Schmoe]

My Googlefeed yesterday had the first few lines of a Techinisghts story that China's (unspecified) DUV machine cannot execute multipatterning and is unable to produce 28nm and smaller nodes. Techinsights website today does not appear to have that story, nor did Google searches reveal it. Did anybody see that story? Did Techinsights withdraw it?

 

[huemens]

My Googlefeed yesterday had the first few lines of a Techinisghts story that China's (unspecified) DUV machine cannot execute multipatterning and is unable to produce 28nm and smaller nodes. Techinsights website today does not appear to have that story, nor did Google searches reveal it. Did anybody see that story? Did Techinsights withdraw it?

That was not Techinsights. It was a DigiTimes article.

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I don't have the full text, but most likely it is just a pointless article about the 65nm DUV, as they have been writing various articles about it whole week.

 

[Wahid145]

That was not Techinsights. It was a DigiTimes article.

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I don't have the full text, but most likely they are talking about the 65nm DUV, as they have been writing various articles about it whole week.

@curiouscat can you please link this article to Pastebin?