A method of repurposing existing techniques to produce a microprocessor timing device in a standard chip fab plant could address supply chain and security weak points. (Photo courtesy of Second Bay ...

Microchip Technology MCHP recently announced an expanded partnership with the world’s leading semiconductor foundry, TSMC, to bolster its supply chain resilience. MCHP’s collaboration with TSMC ...

(Nanowerk News) Microchip fab plants in the United States can cram billions of data processing transistors onto a tiny silicon chip, but a critical device, in essence a “clock,” to time the operation ...

A new technique uses standard chip fab methods to fabricate the building block of a timing device, critical to all microprocessors. Currently, this timing device, known as an acoustic resonator, must ...