2020 will be remembered most for the challenges of COVID-19. In the world of technology, it will be remembered for accelerating digital transformations that would have taken many more years to play out. Entering 2021, the dependency between the global economy and semiconductors is greater than it’s ever been. At the same time, the way chips are being made is changing as traditional Moore’s Law scaling slows. Applied Materials is dedicated to driving new ways to help our customers continue to deliver improvements in chip power, performance and cost, in record time.
Selective processing is increasingly being used to create, shape and modify materials and features in semiconductor manufacturing. In this blog I explain what selective processing is and why it’s critically important to the future of chip scaling.
Patterning challenges for the semiconductor industry are growing as the number of multi-patterned layers being used in the 10nm and beyond nodes increase.
In response to teacher shortages in the U.S. and Taiwan, Teach for America and Teach for Taiwan are training recent college graduates to be teachers in traditionally underserved schools.
Applied Materials and IIT-Kanpur recently gathered leaders across government, academia, nonprofits, trade groups and the technology industry for a flexible electronics workshop in New Delhi focused on innovation, collaboration and India’s role in this emerging field.
Head-mounted displays for virtual, augmented and mixed reality have the potential for a variety of applications but there is still a lot of room for improvement in display technology. Applied Ventures portfolio company Avegant is hoping to change that.
Many of us know what it’s like to put in long hours at work. But what we may not realize is that some of our colleagues are working 15+ hours a day risking their own safety to help those in need of support and resources.
Applied Materials recently joined the United States Advanced Ceramics Association to deepen our connection with suppliers and application developers, and explore potential areas where our materials engineering leadership can help enable the next major technology inflections.
The Art and Science of Artwork Conservation Program recently opened at the National Gallery Singapore with support from Applied Materials and a goal to inspire tomorrow’s artists and innovators.
As competition intensifies in the semiconductor industry, chip makers are adopting Industry 4.0 manufacturing techniques to achieve higher levels of operational excellence.
The ability to detect and identify defects becomes increasingly difficult as chips continue to shrink. In this blog, I discuss a new approach to Defect Review Scanning Electron Microscopy that increases sensitivity of defect identification and isolates true defects from the noise.
