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POWERCHIP SEMICONDUCTOR CORP.

268Patents
64Active
268Granted
46Portfolio score

Filing activity: Sep 6, 1996 → Sep 18, 2009 · 64 expiring within 5 years

Most-cited patents

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5736446A Method of fabricating a MOS device having a gate-side air-gap structure Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 138 Expired
US5995438A Synchronous semiconductor memory device Physics 100 Expired
US5936903A Synchronous semiconductor memory device Physics 84 Expired
US5747377A Process for forming shallow trench isolation Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 65 Expired
US6444574B1 Method for forming stepped contact hole for semiconductor devices Electricity 54 Expired
US6069057A Method for fabricating trench-isolation structure Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 50 Expired
US5773348A Method of fabricating a short-channel MOS device Electricity 45 Expired
US6635533B1 Method of fabricating flash memory Electricity 41 Expired
US5670397A Dual poly-gate deep submicron CMOS with buried contact technology Electricity 39 Expired
US5973632A Sub-range flash analog-to-digital converter Electricity 29 Expired
US5851897A Method of forming a dram cell with a crown-fin-pillar structure capacitor Electricity 25 Expired
US7071061B1 Method for fabricating non-volatile memory Electricity 25 Expired
US6794710B2 Split-gate flash memory structure and method of manufacture Electricity 24 Expired
US6639836B1 Method for reading flash memory with silicon-oxide/nitride/oxide-silicon (SONOS) structure Physics 24 Expired
US7208796B2 Split gate flash memory Electricity 24 Expired
US5825710A Synchronous semiconductor memory device Physics 23 Expired
US5723373A Method of making porous-Si capacitors for high density drams cell Electricity 22 Expired
US7679163B2 Phase-change memory element Electricity 22 Active
US7660147B2 Programming method for phase change memory Physics 21 Active
US6898126B1 Method of programming a flash memory through boosting a voltage level of a source line Physics 20 Expired
US7166513B2 Manufacturing method a flash memory cell array Physics 20 Expired
US5933742A Multi-crown capacitor for high density DRAMS Electricity 19 Expired
US6745102B1 Automatic transporting system and method for operating the same Performing Operations; Transporting 18 Expired
US5721168A Method for forming a ring-shape capacitor Electricity 17 Expired
US7569845B2 Phase-change memory and fabrication method thereof Electricity 15 Active

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Counts and citation impact are objective bibliographic measures.