TSMC takes 'chip binning' to a whole new level as entire wafer 'found in a dumpster'
Chip binning' is supposed to be the process of testing newly manufactured silicon to see how many of the important bits work ...
Ming-Chi Kuo Dismisses Nvidia Order Cut Speculation Amid Intact AI Demand, Confirms TSMC Expansion On Track
Ming-Chi Kuo has debunked rumors of a major reduction in Nvidia's 2025 CoWoS wafer orders at TSMC, confirming expansion ...
The Economist1d
The race is on to build the world’s most complex machine
Yet unlike software, where industry leadership can shift in months, success in lithography is a slow-moving race measured in ...
TSMC wafer found in a dumpster - is this the ultimate case of chip binning?
VNNI, claims to have found the wafer near TSMC's Fab 16 factory in Nanjing, China. While not cutting-edge, that ...
Semiconductor Engineering10d
Wafer-Level Test Infrastructure for Higher Parallel Wafer Level Testing of SoC
A new technical paper titled “Design and Implementation of Test Infrastructure for Higher Parallel Wafer Level Testing of ...
Interesting Engineering on MSN6d
China’s 100 GHz light-powered chip ditches electricity, shatters speed record in computing
Instead of using electronic oscillators to keep internal time, these chips run photons around a racecourse-like circuit that ...
Lowyat.NET11d
An Entire TSMC Chip Wafer Found Chucked Into A Dumpster
Some dumpster diver in China lucked out when they went scavenging inside TSMC’s garbage recently and found a literal Chip ...