Author Archives: Chipworks

Infineon 130 nm Smart Power BCD Technology

Posted on May 8, 2013 by Chipworks

Contributed by: Sinjin Dixon-Warren and Paul Jagodzinski The approach of ISPSD 2013, which will be held this year in Kanazawa, Japan, May 26-30, stimulated us to look back at some of our recent analyses of the Infineon 130 nm Smart … Continue reading →

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Intel 22 nm Transistor Measured Using Atomic Force Prober Technology

Posted on May 1, 2013 by Chipworks

  Contributed by: St.J. Dixon-Warren This will be the first in a series of blogs highlighting Chipworks’ advanced node transistor characterization. Chipworks published structural and electrical characterization results for the Intel 22 nm process in May 2012. Measurements of transistor … Continue reading →

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Companies Take on Smartphone Patent Wars

Posted on April 25, 2013 by Chipworks

Julia Elvidge, Chipworks president, presented on the topic of Smartphone Patent Wars at the LES International Conference that took place April 7-10 in Rio de Janeiro. Julia spoke about trends in the mobile device market, how the mobile device market is … Continue reading →

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MWC 2013 – Cores, Cores, Everywhere Cores

Posted on February 28, 2013 by Chipworks

Contributed by Rob Williamson A comparative look at a few of today’s flagship application processors Walking around Mobile World Congress, you can’t help but notice that the leading smartphone vendors are down-playing their specifications these days. In the early days … Continue reading →

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