The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has launched a competition to develop “the next generation of masks,” with prizes totaling $500,000. The competition — “Mask Innovation Challenge: ...

As noted by AppleInsider, according to the European Union’s list of acquisitions by firms it classes as gatekeepers, Apple has acquired IC Mask Design. Under the Digital Markets Act, Apple is required ...

The semiconductor industry began using multi-patterning technology to fabricate ICs at the 20-nm process node. When we got to 7 nm, the use of self-aligned multi-patterning (SAMP) techniques was ...

Masks are a crucial tool in the fight against COVID-19, but most of them are horribly designed (or alternatively, are just about the looks): they’re stuffy, they cause maskne, they fog up your glasses ...

What’s worse: a poorly fitting face mask or an anti-masker? The answer is surely the latter, but a wearing an ill-fitting face mask definitely sucks. In the past year, it seems no one’s been able to ...

In a world where cameras are everywhere and privacy feels like a distant memory, the idea of reclaiming anonymity can feel both empowering and elusive. Whether it’s the subtle unease of being watched ...

Some foundries require cut shapes to be aligned with respect to each other or to another layer. As shown in Figure 6, the Calibre Multi-Patterning tool automatically aligns the cut shapes between ...