The brief was that the wafer probe yield was disastrous and the ... lines and the scan chain hookup The naïve IC design is one that forgoes testability in pursuit of die area, development time ...

Mixing financial data with manufacturing analytics can boost efficiency, but there are still pockets of resistance.

Wafer capacity growth of 8% forecast for 2018 and 2019 versus 4.8% average yearly growth from 2012-2017. February 12, 2018 -- IC industry wafer capacity, specifically in the memory segment, was ...

As a result, IC industry capacity is also becoming more concentrated and this trend is especially prevalent in 300mm wafer technology. Figure 1 lists the 300mm installed capacity leaders for 2012 and ...

and design rules may also have to be restricted to allow pattern splitting. These factors reduce the overall number of wafers an IC manufacturer can process in a given time, and also raise ...