Chipworks Real Chips

It’s the time in the media world that we see a frenzy of predictions for the coming year. They are mostly business or tech trends, so I figured I might as well chip in (har! har!), and give a more detailed idea of what new semiconductor products we look...

On the Monday afternoon at IEDMthe key paper for me was the Intel/Micron talk on their 3D-NAND flash part (paper 3.3), which is currently sampling to customers. Samsung put their V-NAND flash on the market last year, but that uses charge-trap technology...

Back in April the Apple watch appeared in our labs, and of course we analyzed it to see its contents. That set us some challenges, since inside the case we have the S1”chip” (as Jony Ive called it in the launch last year). As you can see, it occupies...

Today (April 10) is the day that the Apple Watch becomes available for order, and of course we will be buying some to see what’s inside. We won’t be going for the gold Edition model, even so some of us here would like to; the Sport version should be...