Intel, rivals gird for IC manufacturing showdown

Peter Clarke, EETimes
9/24/2012 1:00 PM EDT

LONDON – Chip giant Intel and the research partnership clustered around IBM and STMicroelectronics are each set to report progress on their approaches to leading-edge IC manufacturing during the International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM) in San Francisco in December.

Research teams are set to present on the FinFET approach--called tri-gate by Intel--on fully-depleted silicon-on-insulator (FDSOI) and on bulk planar processes at around 20 nm and beyond.

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