WHY IT’S IMPORTANT
Nearfield has developed chipmaking tools designed to measure and inspect silicon wafers to ensure the chips printed on them meet manufacturing standards. The conventional techniques to do so have reached their limits, Nearfield said, and its machines are necessary to ensure that chip production yield remains high with the most advanced processes needed to manufacture artificial intelligence processors.
KEY QUOTE
"What is important after every step of manufacturing is what has been processed is measured - so-called metrology - to make sure it meets what was intended ... to avoid the loss of good chips," Nearfield CEO Hamed Sadeghian said in an interview with Reuters.
By Max A. Cherney.
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