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Applied Materials has launched a new generation of optical semiconductor wafer inspection machines that incorporate big data and AI techniques. These multimillion-dollar machines are used in chip ...

Unpatterned wafer inspection, which has flown well under the radar for most of the semiconductor industry, is becoming more critical amid the need to find defects earlier in the manufacturing process ...

E-beam inspection is gaining traction in critical areas in fab production as it is becoming more difficult to find tiny defects with traditional methods at advanced nodes. Applied Materials, ASML/HMI ...