It’s a trick that was widely used in planar 2D NAND flash architectures. But integrating airgaps into the tall silicon-oxide/word-line stack is significantly more challenging.

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How AI Took the ‘Fun’ Out of Silicon Valley’s Work Culture Big tech names used to attract talented workers with exciting workplace perks. Now that’s gone, and the work is more of a slog.

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Former FTC Chair Lina Khan recently took a victory lap after Figma's blockbuster IPO. Silicon Valley went berserk, criticizing the pioneering antitrust expert. The responses are related to how ...

Supply chain intelligence startup Lyric is ready to expand after closing on a $43.5 million Series B round of funding today. The round was led by Insight Partners, one of the world’s most ...

Maintaining the robustness of the gate oxide is a prerequisite for the on-orbit application of SiC MOSFETs. Recent research has demonstrated that the oxide undergoes premature breakdown within the ...

Silicon dethroned? China’s 2D InSe wafer sets new bar for next-gen chip tech Silicon has competition. Scientists in China built the first wafer-scale InSe chip, and it’s already beating future ...

Brain-inspired computing, with its potential for energy-efficient spatio-temporal data processing, has spurred significant interest in spiking neural networks and their hardware implementations.

OpenMind is building humanoid robot operating software designed for robots that interact with people and other robots.

In a major shift, Google, OpenAI, Meta and venture capitalists — many of whom had once forsworn involvement in war — have embraced the military industrial complex.