| | Top Stories — October 27, 2014 | | | RF and MEMS Technologies to Enable the IoT
Communications and energy-harvesting capabilities can be integrated into ubiquitous always-on smart nodes. | | Are We At an Inflection Point with Silicon Scaling and Homogeneous ICs?
In the late 1940's, three physicists (Bardeen, Brattain and Shockley) invented the first transistor and were later awarded the Nobel Prize in 1956. | | How Will Analog and Sensors Impact the IoT?
What challenges await designers and implementers on the monolithic mixed signal sensor side of the IoT equation? Several experts from the IoT ecosystem have differing viewpoints on these questions including Patrick Gill, Principal Research Scientist at Rambus; Ian Chen, Marketing, Systems, Applications, Software & Algorithms manager at Freescale; Pratul Sharma, Technical Marketing Manager for the IoT at ARM; and Diya Soubra, CPU Product Manager at ARM. | | TSV Market Demand Now for Performance not Size
High-performance applications pull for premium packaging solutions. | | GLOBALFOUNDRIES to Acquire IBM's Chip Operations
GLOBALFOUNDRIES will acquire IBM's global commercial semiconductor technology business, including IBM's intellectual property, technologists and technologies. IBM will pay GLOBALFOUNDRIES $1.5 billion in cash over the next three years to take the chip operations off its hands. | | Intel and IBM to lay out 14nm FinFET strategies on competing substrates at IEDM 2014
In two late-news papers to be given at this December's IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM), Intel and IBM will present dueling approaches to the development of FinFET technology for the 14nm technology node, the semiconductor industry's next big hurdle. | | ARM Expands into Enterprise Servers and IoT
At the ARM TechCon earlier this month, Pete Hutton, president of ARM's products group, said that ARM was addressing the Internet of Things in many ways, from 64-bit chips for enterprise servers to microcontrollers for sensor-oriented applications. | | Deeper Dive – Mentor Graphics Looks to the Future
There has been a great deal of handwringing and naysaying about the industry's progress to the 14/16-nanometer process node, along with wailing and gnashing of teeth about the slow progress of extreme-ultraviolet lithography, which was supposed to ease the production of 14nm or 16nm chips. Joseph Sawicki, vice president and general manager of Mentor's Design-to-Silicon Division, is having none of it. | | Threshold voltage tuning for 10nm and beyond CMOS integration
A novel metal gate integration scheme to achieve precise threshold voltage (VT) control for multiple VTs is described. | | more top stories  |
| News & Features | | | Research Alert: October 14, 2014
Revving up fluorescence for super fast LEDs; Smallest world record has 'endless possibilities' for bio-nanotechnology; Printing in the hobby room: Paper-thin and touch-sensitive displays on various materials | | Blog review October 20, 2014
New blogs delve in the challenges of IC verification for automotive electronics, the need for higher purity and better-characterized electronic materials, SEMI's recent Strategic Materials Conference, the IoT and need for security, IBM's work on graphene, the polymer dielectric market, a recent IMAPS workshop, the Nobel Prize in physics and FD-SOI at Semicon Europa. | | | more news & features |
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