Every foundry and every node is different, but for every foundry/node there are multiple supported metal stacks. Some chips use a lot more metal layers than others. A common rule of thumb is each ...
When Nvidia announced its Rubin series of GPUs in March, it also dropped a bomb: racks built with the Ultra version of the chip, which is expected to be released in 2027, could draw up to 600 ...
R&D center IMEC has extended its industrial affiliation program (IIAP) on high-k dielectrics for sub-65nm devices to provide solutions for the implementation of metal gate stacks in planar scaled CMOS ...
Architects and front end designers usually leave the back end to the physical designers: they know there can be different numbers of metal layers, but may not realize the characteristics of each metal ...