The answer wasn’t in the shape, it was in the chemistry. The earliest aluminum oxide sublayers didn’t contain enough aluminum. That meant the film looked continuous, yet was still incomplete at the ...

Key market opportunities for high-purity quartz include its critical role in the growing semiconductor and solar photovoltaic ...

Races, missed next-state values due to long paths, and metastability can result from corrupted clock signals. This post describes the challenges of clock network and clock jitter analysis in more ...

Standalone NPN Market generated USD 7.6 bn in 2024 and is predicted to register growth from USD 9.1 bn in 2025 to about USD ...

TSMC makes the most advanced semiconductors in the world. They are the tiny electronic “brains” that power most modern ...

Most of today's quantum computers rely on qubits with Josephson junctions that work for now but likely won't scale as needed ...

There is a tendency to picture computers as cold, precise things, sealed away in clean rooms and humming quietly under desks.

Artificial intelligence is colliding with a hard physical limit: the energy and heat of conventional chips. As models scale into the trillions of parameters, simply throwing more silicon and ...

Guided by the Outcome-Based Education concept, systematic teaching reforms have been implemented for the “Analog Circuits” course to address the shortcomings of the traditional teaching model. Key ...

The Dutch government's recent seizure of chip company Nexperia from its Chinese owner could disrupt vehicle production in the near term, German auto industry group VDA warned Tuesday. The Dutch ...

A new hydrogel electrolyte enables fast, low-power solid-state circuits for implantable bioelectronics, offering high precision, stability, and compatibility with complex neural systems. (Nanowerk ...