Re:Intel: EUV-Enabled 7nm Process Tech is on Track
by baybal2 on Monday December 10, 2018 @06:25AM
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A worthy thing to note, the guy who invented finfet, Calvin Hu, was a TSMC CTO.
Immersion litho inventor Burn Lin was TSMC's RnD VP.
Full depletion tech - TSMC
Modern metal gate - TSMC
Copper - IBM/TSMC
First EUV initiative at TSMC was started in... surprise, 2000!
TSMC does play a very long game. Intel was great at commercialising "latest and greatest tech" quick, but TSMC was always ahead at mastering yields, and delivering more "mature" processes for mass manufacturing.
Immersion litho inventor Burn Lin was TSMC's RnD VP.
Full depletion tech - TSMC
Modern metal gate - TSMC
Copper - IBM/TSMC
First EUV initiative at TSMC was started in... surprise, 2000!
TSMC does play a very long game. Intel was great at commercialising "latest and greatest tech" quick, but TSMC was always ahead at mastering yields, and delivering more "mature" processes for mass manufacturing.
P.S. Calvin Hu made a hybrid Lambo for his masters back in 1979! https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~hu/Hybrid%20car%20Chronicl...