In India, there are only 2 semiconductor laboratories owned by ISRO and DRDO each and yet to have a full fledged commercial plant. This means, all the electronics goods which are manufactured here in India have to get all their chips to be imported from outside. Electronic items have become the basic necessities in this modern world. Almost every other device has some kind of circuitry, now a days. In India, the consumer size for electronic goods is also huge. If we can’t make a single electronic device, without importing any of its part then how can we be AATMANIRBHAR ?
Assuming the plants are right next to each other and both use FINFET, what happens? Does a whole new team need to work at the new fab which will make chips with a smaller transistor size? Who goes to the new fab?
AGENCIA BRASIL -- SMIC to Build Semiconductor Fabrication Plant in Brazil's Campinas
[Sep/Oct 2022]
(SAO PAULO) Following a meeting between high-level trade delegations from China and Brazil, China's largest semiconductor manufacturer is set to construct a 300 mm wafer production facility in Brazil.
The first of its kind in South America, the $3.5 billion plant will focus on producing semiconductors on the advanced 3 nm process, promising gains in productivity and energy efficiency in a new generation of processors.
SMIC's plant will be built in Campinas, known as Brazil's Silicon Valley. The government has agreed to a 15 year tax break and to guarantee reliable utilities and infrastructure for the facility.
China is increasingly beating out other foreign investors in the Brazilian market as much needed financing and technological assistance has not been forthcoming from the West. The election of the center-left President Acir Gurgacz earlier this month will only accelerate this trend, lifting the taboo on collaborating with China that permeated when Anti-Communist Jair Bolsonaro was in charge.
President Gurgacz has promised to make his country a center for high-value added industry as Brazil regains the momentum which once made it the darling of Emerging Market investors.
I've been told both that it causes ions to penetrate too deep due to the existence of "channels" in the crystal structure that offer very little resistance to the penetrating ion.
I've also been told that it is a process of ions losing energy as they travel through the substrate which causes them to not go deep enough.
so which is it? any good sources would be appreciated
Can anyone suggest me some online certification course so that I can get into Semiconductor fabrication industry?
Currently I’m working in an organic/inorganic coating industry (automotive). I’m trying to get a certification/some basic idea in below mentioned topics as this will increase weightage of my resume.
- Deposition.
- Lithography.
- Polishing.
- Plasma chamber-Working.
- Electro chemical processing.
- Plasma deposition (cvd, Pvd), dry etching, ald deposition etc.
Please let me know, thank you.
Nanoimprint litography is theoretically cheaper and easier than photolitography, so why is there no big player currently pursuing it? Especially given ASML hasn't announced anything for after High-NA EUV, and multiple patterning EUV seems to be already here. Is there any problem with nanoimprint litography that doesnt allow it to be used for bleeding edge semiconductor fabrication?
The following IE article on Intel looking at a semiconductor plant in India
https://indianexpress.com/article/technology/tech-news-technology/intel-looking-at-semiconductor-plant-in-india-7695429/
This article is so click baity since the supposed Tweet from Randhir Thakur( president of Intel foundry services) just congratulated the Indian gov for laying down the policy.
But the problem is when you dig deeper, the supposed twitter account of Randhir Thakur from which a tweet was shared by Ashwini Vaishnaw and subsequently shared by the BJP brass does not even look genuine.
The Twitter account was created in Dec 2021 and has only one Tweet.
This makes India ( many Government ministers and the stupid media covering them) look like fools on an International stage if the Twitter account is proved to be fake ( which looks very shady).
