Samsung Patents a Heat-Resistant Shielding Structure for Semiconductor Packages
Soldering chips onto circuit boards creates a heat problem — the same heat that bonds the chip can damage the shielding around…
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Samsung Patents an Improved Phase-Shift EUV Mask for Chip Patterning
Samsung is patenting a redesigned mask for extreme ultraviolet lithography — the process that etches today's most advanced chips — with a…
Samsung Files Patent for Selective-Protection Semiconductor Etching Process
Deep inside a chip factory, the difference between a working transistor and a dead one can come down to a single masking…
Samsung Patents a Self-Calibrating Radar Receiver That Fixes Its Own Signal Distortion
Radar chips are only as accurate as their analog circuitry — and that circuitry is never perfect. Samsung's new patent describes a…
Samsung Patents an On-Chip Circuit for Testing Interconnect Health
As chips get smaller and the wires connecting their components shrink to nanometer scales, verifying those connections without destroying the chip becomes…
Samsung Patents a Multi-Grating Overlay Measurement Method for Chip Fabrication
Getting semiconductor layers to line up within a few nanometers across an entire wafer is one of the hardest problems in chip…
IBM Patents a Tapered Contact Structure for Next-Gen Nanosheet Transistors
As transistors shrink to nanosheet dimensions, the tiny metal contacts that carry current in and out become a serious engineering headache. IBM's…
IBM Patents a Hybrid Bonding Structure to Pull Heat Out of Stacked Chips
As chips get stacked closer together, heat has nowhere to go — and that thermal buildup is quietly becoming one of the…
IBM Patents a Transistor-Swapping Trick to Shrink Chip Cell Layouts
IBM has found a clever workaround for a rigid constraint in chip layout tools — temporarily disguising one type of transistor as…
IBM Patents a Vertically Stacked P-N Diode Built Into FET Gate Structures
IBM has filed a patent for a P-N diode that lives inside the same physical space as a transistor's source and drain…
IBM Patents a Vector Table System for Smarter Processor Register Access
Accessing registers in a processor sounds like plumbing — until you realize that how efficiently a chip can juggle its internal scratch…
IBM Patents a Shared-Register System for Diagnosing Failing On-Chip Memory
When memory cells on a chip start failing, knowing exactly which ones and how many are broken is half the battle. IBM's…
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