Applied Materials preps for ‘Angstrom Era’ in chipmaking — spearheaded by its new Kinex, Xtera, and PROVision 10 systems

Applied Materials has unveiled three new chipmaking tools that define what the company calls the ‘angstrom era’ of chipmaking, signaling a transition toward next-generation process technologies sometimes controlled at the level of individual atoms. The new systems — Kinex, Xtera, and PROVision 10 — are designed to enable next-generation fabrication methods while also improving performance efficiency and yields of logic and memory semiconductor production nodes and packaging technologies today.

“As…