Shrinking feature sizes is still technically possible, but certainly not with the same promised economic benefits and, at least for the foreseeable future, not with 450mm wafers. At one time, Intel, ...

High volume 450mm IC wafer fabs not expected until after 2020. April 19, 2016 -- IC Insights recently released its new Global Wafer Capacity 2016-2020 report that provides in-depth detail, analyses, ...

Intel sees a "clear way" to manufacturing chips under 10 nanometers and when the semiconductor industry transitions to 450mm silicon wafers around 2012, the number of companies that run their own ...