Global views on nano and semiconductors

✍ Scribed by Gail Purvis

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 54 KB
• Volume: 17
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0961-1290
• DOI: 10.1016/s0961-1290(04)00103-6

✦ Synopsis

Over January the news has indicated that the EU and US are to take different approaches to semi and nano futures.

For the EU, the route is to be through NanoCMOS (budget possibly <$100m). The aim to build 'a CMOS backbone for 2010 e-Europe.' First phase is to produce a SRAM chip by 2005, followed in 2006 by focus on 32nmand 22nm nodes. At that point Medea Plus (the extension of Medea which put STM, Philips & Infineon into top chip ranking and boosted ASML and others into winning as equipment suppliers) will work on 45nm technologies in the 300mm wafer environment. Also new, a Si-Nano network is to link up the best EU academic researchers to plan R&D for Nano-CMOS needs.