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Annual MEMS Executive Conference shows why MEMS is growing 2x faster than semiconductors

11/15/2013  MEMS Industry Group (MIG)'s MEMS Executive Congress -- held November 7-8, 2013 in Napa, CA -- showed why the MEMS industry is outpacing the semiconductor industry, in both growth and innovation.

The US lighting control systems industry: A market in transition

11/14/2013  The lighting control systems marketplace has been in a state of transition in recent years. Changing energy efficiency codes, new construction project increases, wireless technology benefits, increases in LED lighting adoption and conservation initiatives have been the key factors driving the growth of the lighting control systems market in the US.

ASMC 2014 offers opportunity for presenters

11/14/2013  SEMI announced today that the deadline for presenters to submit an abstract for the 25th annual SEMI Advanced Semiconductor Manufacturing Conference (ASMC) is extended to November 28.

FlipChip International acquires Millennium Microtech Shanghai

11/12/2013  FlipChip International announced today the 100% acquisition of Millennium Microtech (Shanghai) - (MMS), a provider of fully integrated semiconductor packaging and testing services situated in the Zhang Jiang Hi- Tech Park, Pudong New Area, Shanghai, China.

inTEST Thermal launches mobile temperature control system

11/12/2013  inTEST Thermal today announced the launch of a mobile temperature control system for high-speed thermal testing of chips, components and PCBs.

MIG honors STMicroelectronics with three different awards

11/11/2013  STMicroelectronics has been selected by MEMS Industry Group and affiliated voters as the Company of the Year for its continuing success in growing its MEMS business, expanding its product line, and demonstrating industry leadership and vision.

Tosoh Corp. to expand Ohio PVD facility to meet needs of 450mm transition

11/11/2013  Tosoh Corporation announced today that Tosoh Group company Tosoh SMD, Inc., will implement a major expansion at its Grove City, Ohio, operations to develop, produce, and support physical vapor deposition (PVD) sputtering targets for the new 450mm wafer semiconductor market.

Xilinx ships industry's first 20nm all programmable product

11/11/2013  Xilinx today announced first customer shipment of the semiconductor industry's first 20nm product manufactured by TSMC, and the PLD industry's first 20nm All Programmable device.

Toshiba starts shipments of CMOS image sensor for automotive view cameras

11/11/2013  Toshiba Corporation today announced that started sample shipments of a VGA, 1/4 inch CMOS image sensor, “TCM5126GBA,” for automotive view cameras.

STMicroelectronics, Memoir Systems combine breakthrough memory, semiconductor process technologies

11/07/2013  Efforts make embedded memory faster, cooler and simpler.

OEM Group celebrates grand opening of expanded facility in Japan

11/07/2013  Global semiconductor capital equipment manufacturer OEM Group, Inc. announced the opening of its new Sales and Service Center in Yokohama, Japan.

Plastic Electronics Conference to rotate between Dresden and Grenoble beginning in 2014

11/07/2013  SEMI, the global trade organization representing the nano- and micro-electronic manufacturing supply chains, today announced that next yearÂ’s Plastic Electronics Conference (PE2014) will be held in Grenoble, France and alternate with Dresden, Germany in future years to better address pan-European opportunities and challenges in Plastic Electronics.

SRC, Northeastern University research to increase tumble frequency range of next-generation mobile devices

11/07/2013  Development of voltage-tunable radio frequency inductors boosts semiconductor and defense industry applications.

DecaWave launches industry's most precise indoor location, communication CMOS chip

11/07/2013  Fabless semiconductor company DecaWave announced today its first single chip of the ScenSor wireless technology family, DW1000, which makes indoor location and communications more accurate, cost-effective and power-efficient than ever before.

Flexible display market to reach $67.7 billion by 2023

11/07/2013  The display industry has developed towards in realizing large-screen and high quality image so far. But in the future, the development directions would go toward the reasonably priced flexible displays.

SUNY Nanocollege and Albany Law School partner to create nanotech education program

11/05/2013  ‘Ecosystem for Nanotechnology, Entrepreneurship and LawÂ’ (eNTEL) will provide unmatched student experience as launch pad for development of startup companies and attraction of business investment.

Are we using Moore's name in vain?

11/05/2013  Clearly Moore's law is about cost, and Gordon MooreÂ’s observation was that the optimum number of components (nowadays - transistors) to achieve minimum cost will double every year.