Category Archives: Advanced CMOS Technology

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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Apple’s TV surprise – a new A5 chip!

Posted on March 12, 2013 by rwilliamson

This Technology Blog will be live updated to include some cross sectional and polysilicon shots of the Apple A5. If you are seeing this message then check back regularly or follow us on Twitter @chipworks to get up to the … Continue reading →

Posted in Advanced CMOS Technology, App's processors, Design Wins, General News | 13 Comments

60th International Solid State Circuits Conference

Posted on February 18, 2013 by Dick James

Contributed by Randy Torrance The 60th International Solid State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) kicked off today. This is the largest annual integrated circuit conference in the world.  Today the educational sessions took center stage. I attended 2 of these: High-Bandwidth Memory … Continue reading →

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Looking at the Wii U Graphics Processor

Posted on February 4, 2013 by rwilliamson

Yes, even reverse engineering the latest technology has its up and down days. At the start of the reverse engineering process, we generally have a simple electronics teardown before we can get to the more traditional tasks of helping our … Continue reading →

Posted in Advanced CMOS Technology, CPUs, Design Wins | 29 Comments