Photo by Jaromír Kavan on Unsplash THE BUILDING BLOCKS OF SEMICONDUCTOR LOGIC TECHNOLOGY MAP The transistor is one of the building blocks of the semiconductor industry. It has also gone through drastic transformation led by very high activity of research and development. These transformational changes, year on year, have empowered

Photo by Ryan Quintal on Unsplash THE REASONS TO USE SEMICONDUCTOR CHIPLETS FOR MANY-CORE ARCHITECTURES Computer architecture is a set of design steps that drives the manufacturing of innovative processing units, worldwide known as the processor. These processors follow the rules as defined by the computer architects and the end

Photo by ThisisEngineering RAEng on Unsplash THE FINITE SEMICONDUCTOR GAME The semiconductor industry consists of different players (companies) playing one of the two games: Finite Or Infinite. The technical and business planning laid out by any semiconductor company can enable classification of whether they are playing the long-term infinite game

Photo by Florian Olivo on Unsplash THE MAJOR BLOCKS OF THE SEMICONDUCTOR FOUNDRY ROADMAP RACE Semiconductor foundries across the globe are focused on providing solutions to retain existing customers and attract new customers. To achieve these two goals, semiconductor foundry companies have to keep innovating. Innovations are critical to ensure

Photo by L N on Unsplash THE KNOWN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING STRUGGLES The cost of semiconductor manufacturing is doubling every four years. The major driving factor for the rising cost is the product complexity due to the introduction of new technology-node and packaging technologies. Electrical testing also has played a role

Photo by Matt Duncan on Unsplash THE HURDLES FOR THE SHRINKING SEMICONDUCTOR ROADMAP Several roadmaps get initiated by different semiconductor companies and also semiconductor technical bodies. These roadmaps provided a path of where semiconductor technologies were, where it is today and where it will be tomorrow. In many cases, roadmaps