03/27/2017  Transphorm Inc. announced that its second generation, JEDEC-qualified high voltage gallium nitride (GaN) technology is now the industry's first GaN solution to earn automotive qualification -- having passed the Automotive Electronics Council’s AEC-Q101 stress tests for automotive-grade discrete semiconductors.

03/23/2017  Intel Corporation today announced that Omar Ishrak and Greg Smith have been elected to Intel’s board of directors.

03/23/2017  At the SEMI Industry Strategy Symposium in Munich, SEMI announced recipients of the European SEMI Award for 2016.

03/22/2017  Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.today announced a successful network processor tape-out based on Samsung’s 14LPP (Low-Power Plus) process technology in close collaboration with eSilicon and Rambus.

03/20/2017  It takes a range of skills to create a successful business in the Internet of Things space, where chips sell for a few dollars and competition is intense. Circuit design and software support for multiple wireless standards must combine with manufacturing capabilities.

03/20/2017  The technology leader in the DRAM industry has a greater advantage in terms of market share and profit.

03/16/2017  Synopsys, Inc. today announced that TSMC has certified the complete suite of products in the Synopsys Galaxy Design Platform for the most current version of 12nm FinFET process technology.

03/16/2017  Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS) today announced its collaboration with TSMC to develop DesignWare Interface, Analog and Foundation IP for TSMC's 12FFC process.

03/15/2017  STATS ChipPAC Pte. Ltd., a provider of advanced semiconductor packaging and test services, announced today that it has shipped 1.5 billion fan-out wafer level packages (FOWLP), also known in the industry as embedded Wafer Level Ball Grid Array (eWLB).

03/14/2017  Cadence Design Systems, Inc. today announced several new capabilities resulting from its close collaboration with TSMC to further 7nm FinFET design innovation for mobile and high-performance computing (HPC) platforms.

03/14/2017  Jim Walker, who retired from Gartner and is now consulting as World Level Packaging Concepts, gave a plenary talk at the recent IMAPS Device Packaging Conference in Scottsdale on the state of the semiconductor industry which contained some interesting perspectives on emerging new business models.

03/13/2017  Cadence Design Systems, Inc. today announced new optimization capabilities within its holistic, integrated design flow for TSMC's advanced wafer-level Integrated Fan-Out (InFO) packaging technology.

03/09/2017  NXP Semiconductors today announced the world's smallest single-chip SoC solution -- the MC9S08SUx microcontroller (MCU) family -- with an integrated 18V-to-5V LDO and MOSFET pre-driver that delivers ultra-high-voltage solution for drones, robots, power tools, DC fan, healthcare and other low-end brushless DC electric motor control (BLDC) applications.

03/08/2017  ST and Eutelsat complete development of chip for Eutelsat's next-generation SmartLNB.

03/06/2017  Year-to-year growth is market's largest since November 2010; month-to-month sales decrease slightly.

03/06/2017  Promising alternative for MOSFET in future ultralow power chips.

03/03/2017  Yole analysts provide an overview of advanced substrate technologies, markets, and supply chain.

02/27/2017  Dream Chip Technologies announced today the presentation of the industry`s first 22nm FD-SOI silicon for a new ADAS System-on-Chip (SoC) for automotive computer vision applications at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.

02/21/2017  SEMI today announced the appointment of Ajit Manocha as its president and CEO.

02/20/2017  At the recent IEEE 3DIC Conference, Koyanagi and co-workers at Tohoku Univ reported on their studies of Ti as a 3D TSV barrier layer.