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Global LED market 2018-2022 to post a CAGR of 16%

06/26/2018  Technavio analysts forecast the global LED market to post a CAGR of more than 16% during the forecast period, according to their latest market research report.

Closing the gap: On the road to terahertz electronics

06/26/2018  Asymmetric plasmonic antennas deliver femtosecond pulses for fast optoelectronics.

TowerJazz announces 2018 annual Technical Global Symposium events

06/26/2018  TowerJazz, the global specialty foundry, today announced details on its 13th annual Technical Global Symposium (TGS) being held in China, Japan, and the United States.

3D-Micromac introduces selective laser annealing system for semiconductor and MEMS manufacturing

06/25/2018  microPRO RTP leverages optics, line scan and step-and-repeat spot options, and multiple wavelengths to provide highly versatile laser platform.

Micron begins volume production of GDDR6 high performance memory

06/25/2018  Micron Technology, Inc. today announced volume production on its 8Gb GDDR6 memory.

Cadence delivers the first broad cloud portfolio for the development of electronic systems and semiconductors

06/25/2018  Cadence Design Systems, Inc. today launched the Cadence Cloud portfolio, the first broad cloud portfolio for the development of electronic systems and semiconductors.

AMD celebrates breakthrough successes in 2017 by recognizing key suppliers

06/25/2018  AMD (NASDAQ:AMD) today announced awards for key suppliers that contributed to the successful launch of 10 new high-performance computing and graphics product families in 2017.

Leti demonstrates new waveform for 5G low-power wide-area Internet of Things networks

06/25/2018  Leti, a research institute of CEA Tech, today announced that field trials of its new Low Power Wide Area (LPWA) technology, a waveform tailored for Internet of Things (IoT) applications, showed significant performance gains in coverage, data-rate flexibility and power consumption compared to leading LPWA technologies.

Accumulated gap in LCD TV set and panel shipments expected to hit a 10-year high in coming quarters

06/22/2018  Despite better-than-expected first-quarter demand for thin-film transistor liquid-crystal display (TFT-LCD) TV sets and TV panels, market players would be well advised to adopt a more conservative outlook in demand growth for the coming quarters, according to IHS Markit.

Synospsys Custom Design Platform accelerates robust custom design for Samsung Foundry's 7LPP process technology

06/22/2018  Samsung and Synopsys release 7LPP Custom Design reference flow.

Global organic CMOS image sensor market expected to reach $1,750.0M by 2025

06/22/2018  The global organic CMOS image sensor market is expected to value at $696.0 million in 2020, and is projected to reach $1,750.0 million by 2025, registering a CAGR of 20.9% from 2021 to 2025.

Template to create superatoms, created by VCU researchers, could make for better batteries

06/22/2018  he superatoms -- combinations of atoms that can mimic the properties of more than one group of elements of the period table -- could be used to improve semiconductors found in computerized devices.

ON Semiconductor expands manufacturing operations in Mountain Top, Pennsylvania

06/21/2018  ON Semiconductor plans to invest $51 million to support expansion of the Luzerne County facility.

U-M researchers create world's smallest 'computer'

06/21/2018  IBM's announcement that they had produced the world's smallest computer back in March raised a few eyebrows at the University of Michigan, home of the previous champion of tiny computing.

Graphene assembled film shows higher thermal conductivity than graphite film

06/21/2018  Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have developed a graphene assembled film that has over 60 percent higher thermal conductivity than graphite film -- despite the fact that graphite simply consists of many layers of graphene. The graphene film shows great potential as a novel heat spreading material for form-factor driven electronics and other high power-driven systems.

Scientists print sensors on gummi candy

06/21/2018  Printing microelectrode arrays on gelatin and other soft materials could pave the way for new medical diagnostics tools.

SIA releases statement on Trump Administration tariff announcement

06/20/2018  The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA), representing U.S. leadership in semiconductor manufacturing, design, and research, this week released the following statement regarding the Trump Administration's announcement on tariffs on products imported from China.

The fingerprints of harmful molecules could be detected noninvasively via black silicon

06/20/2018  Scientists of the Far Eastern Federal University (FEFU) in cooperation with colleagues from the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), Australian and Lithuanian Universities have improved the technique of ultrasensitive nonperturbing spectroscopic identification of molecular fingerprints.

KLA-Tencor Evolves Inspection and Review Portfolio for 3D Future

07/10/2014  Systems detect and categorize defects that limit yield in advanced IC manufacturing.

How to Drive and Motivate Modern-Day Innovation

07/10/2014  Technology innovation isnÂ’t slowing down. But its steady acceleration isnÂ’t happening spontaneously, and TuesdayÂ’s Silicon Innovation Forum keynote from Professor of Innovation Dr. Bob Metcalfe outline how he believes to effectively drive the complex cycle that is modern-day innovation.