Silicon is the second most abundant element in Earth’s crust, but is rarely found in pure form. High-purity quartzite (SiO 2) is reduced in an electric arc furnace at around 1,800 °C using carbon ...

Researchers developed a process to recover silicon and silicon dioxide (SiO₂) from end-of-life crystalline silicon solar ...

Jul. 1—SANTA CLARA — Intel broke ground on what it describes as an expansion of its mask operations center in Santa Clara, an essential first step in the chip manufacturing process. The new campus ...

Chipmaking equipment giant Applied Materials Inc. is trying to make life easier for its chip fabrication plant customers, so ...

Diamfab and other start-ups want to commercialize diamond wafers for demanding chip applications such as data centers, ...

An international team including scientists from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory has used neutron ...

PITTSBURGH, July 11, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Intel Foundry Services (IFS) certified Ansys (NASDAQ: ANSS) multiphysics solutions for signoff verification of advanced integrated circuits (ICs) designed ...

A new chip manufacturing process from Intel Corp. failed to meet Broadcom Inc.’s expectations in a recent evaluation, Reuters reported today. The development may mark a setback for Intel’s foundry ...

Earlier this spring, AMD, Broadcom, Meta Platforms, Microsoft, Nvidia, and OpenAI formed the Optical Compute Interconnect ...

Complex silicone components rarely move from design to production on material selection alone. For medical device, pharmaceutical, electronics, and other regulated-industry teams, HCR molding has to ...