With PowerVia, Intel achieves a chipmaking breakthrough

Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, Calif., devised a process to manufacture, test, and demonstrate positive performance results with its new backside power solution called PowerVia, enabling chipmaking to go two-sided for the first time.

One Minute Mentor: Horizontal Retort Furnace

Gas nitriding and nitrocarburizing processes can be processed with fixed gasifying amounts of ammonia, nitrogen, and, for nitrocarburizing, a carburizing and oxidizing agent. However, this does not produce consistent results if different load surfaces are treated with the same fixed gasifying amounts. Furthermore, especially for nitriding processes, the ammonia gasifying has to be reduced or […]

Solar Atmospheres of California adds Airbus approval

Solar Atmospheres, Fontana, Calif., has announced that they are now Airbus approved for heat treating. Frank Trujillo, director of Sales for Solar Atmospheres of California, stated that, “Many Airbus suppliers were in need of a heat treater in the West that could process parts, plates and bars in support of increased Airbus production rates. SCA […]

Nitrex installs nitriding system at Akademi Metalurji

Nitrex Vacuum, Quebec, has installed a turnkey nitriding system at Akademi Metalurji, a full-service commercial heat-treating solutions provider located in Turkey. The project includes a mid-sized pit-type furnace, advanced controls, three process technologies along with accelerated cooling.  The decision to invest in a new nitriding system was driven by the company’s objective to overcome efficiency and […]