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imec Says Fabs Can't Measure Every Wafer. So 95% Are Predicted.

In a fab running virtual metrology, only one to five percent of wafers are physically measured. The rest get a number anyway — predicted by a model that reads the process tools rather than the wafer: gas flows, RF power, chamber pressure, roughly a thousand sensor variables per run, turned into a thickness, a line…

16 Aug 20262:04tip inside

AI Just Started Designing Chips By Itself — Then They Locked It In a Cage

In one week, three of the companies that build the software behind every chip on Earth — Synopsys, Cadence and Siemens — shipped AI that designs by itself, and almost nobody outside the industry noticed. Synopsys claims a verification agent up to 50× faster to a validated design; Cadence shipped an agent stack; Siemens wired…

04 Aug 20262:25tip inside