Continuing to scale down the size of transistor features has become costlier and trickier in recent years. So much so that only four manufacturers of logic chips—GlobalFoundries, Intel, Samsung, and TSMC—were even planning to continue the multibillion-dollar effort. Those ranks have now thinned, and schedules for the remaining companies are slipping. But don’t count Moore’s Law […]
The Internet of Things (IoT) is an extraordinarily competitive, crowded market. Any participant needs every possible advantage in order to stand out and succeed. Serious players are betting serious money on their ideas by developing ASICs and systems-on-a-chip (SoCs) for their new IoT devices. But these chips must meet stringent requirements in order to be […]
Highlights: STMicroelectronics, a global semiconductor leader serving customers across the spectrum of electronics applications, has executed an integration license for Atomera’s Mears Silicon Technology™ (MST) as a continuation of their R&D phase. The phased license agreement provides rights for STMicroelectronics to integrate Atomera MST with their in-house technology. LOS GATOS, Calif., Oct. 02, 2018 — Atomera Incorporated (NASDAQ: ATOM), […]
Highlights: Asahi Kasei Microdevices, a Japanese semiconductor manufacturer of high-end specialty integrated circuits (ICs) and sensor products, has licensed Atomera’s Mears Silicon Technology™ (MST). This agreement represents the first license revenue for Atomera and the beginning of our commercial license business. Access to Atomera’s silicon enhancement Intellectual Property (IP) provides AKM with technology to address […]
Great article in the Financial Times, “The US chip industry starts to wake up to new competitive reality” about why new material solutions, like Atomera’s MST, are needed in the semiconductor industry. DARPA has decided to help find solutions by dedicating $1.5B to funding investigations into new chip architectures, materials, and design techniques. The article […]
News Highlights Researchers at Notre Dame University find 2.7x lower gate leakage and 23% improvement in mobility. Company confirms recent data on its Q=quantum engineered material Atomera’s MST is currently being evaluated by foundries and integrated device manufacturers. LOS GATOS, Calif., July 23, 2018 – Atomera (NASDAQ: ATOM), a semiconductor materials and intellectual property […]
June 4, 2018 https://spectrum.ieee.org/nanoclast/semiconductors/devices/atomera-plans-to-breathe-new-life-into-older-chip-manufacturing
Today Atomera added five new papers to our website showing, in more detail, how MST improves performance in semiconductors. Each of the papers was written in conjunction with a leading expert in the field and peer reviewed before publication by the IEEE or the AIP. The papers examine MST’s effects on SRAMs, FinFets, shallow junctions and […]
At December’s IEEE IEDM conference in San Francisco, Atomera held a very well attended event to discuss semiconductor variability and how to mitigate it. Three speakers gave very interesting talks including: Mitigation of Intrinsic Vt Variation using Oxygen Inserted (OI) Silicon Channel by Professor Suman Data – Frank M. Freimann Chair of Engineering at the University […]
Today another customer moved into Atomera’s evaluation stage which means they are building and testing wafers to determine how much MST can improve their product. With the addition of this new customer, Atomera is now in trials with five potential licensees. In this industry “seeing is believing” so running wafers is a critical step before customers can make license […]
