I’m not normally one for just writing up a company-produced video, but a recent Intel release on how 10nm chips get built is instructive enough to merit a mention. The video below steps through the various parts of the chip-manufacturing process on Intel’s 10nm product line. It steps through these processes in more detail than you typically get from a high-level marketing video and shows some of the specific manufacturing steps that take place from silicon boule to finished product. There’s also additional data on Contact over Active Gate, and how the manufacturing steps for that process factor into Intel’s semiconductor manufacturing.
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The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has forced many public spaces to temporarily close, but “essential” businesses can remain open even in US states that have issued closure orders. A leaked AT&T memo tells employees that it believes its retail locations are essential, but the people working on those stores have on the company’s internal message board. As the pandemic has unfolded, AT&T closed 40 percent of its locations, but many employees have been assigned shifts at the remaining 60 percent of stores that remain open. AT&T distributed a memo that claims it is providing “essential services,” and it can, therefore, remain open.
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Coronavirus is expected to send PC sales into a tailspin, reversing the first tentative signs of growth we saw for the industry as a whole in 2019, and cutting sales by as much as according to unnamed “industry sources.” Asus is reportedly expecting a 40 percent drop in Q1 sales. While factories are beginning to come back online in China, Europe, and North American markets are on lockdown. “With many cities in North America and Europe locked down and the EU closing its external borders, Amazon has also announced that its warehouses in the US and the UK are only storing and shipping daily necessities from now on until April 5, and the move is expected to hinder PC sales during the period,” DigiTimes .
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