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At the Imec Future Summits conference, Lam Research’s CEO, Tim Archer, discussed work on a new semiconductor metaverse, called the “Semiverse,” that could streamline this process in a keynote speech.

“We envision the Semiverse as a hybrid physical, virtual environment where development and testing are done as a joint human machine enterprise, where humans and machines are actually each doing what they do best,” Archer said.

A complete digital representation of the entire chip fabrication process in the Semiverse will allow chipmakers to look at the interactions across processes throughout the fab to improve repeatability and optimize yield.

The Semiverse will also allow enterprises building chips, research labs and chip equipment manufacturers to connect digital twins of chips, equipment, processes and labs in a shared virtual space.

Archer believes the improvements in CPU performance, new AI techniques and improved data science workflows will accelerate the ability to build more sophisticated predictive models across many steps in the chip-making process.

“That’s a game changer for what we think we are going to be able to do here in building the Semiverse,” Archer said