Hitachi Chemical filed a lawsuit against INNOX in Taiwan, alleging infringement on Hitachi Chemical's Taiwanese patent related to die bonding film used in semiconductor packaging processes.
Expertech's Compact Thermal Reactor was ordered by a US semiconductor foundry to bolster 200mm wafer capacity. The CTR offers processes for atmospheric and LPCVD, including hydrogen and high-temperature wafer processing.
Air Liquide Electronics completed a series of expansions at its ALOHA manufacturing sites in the US, France and Japan, doubling its advanced precursor production capacity for semiconductor manufacturing applications.
Sensors in Design 2012 takes place March 28-29 in San Jose, CA. With speakers from Texas Instruments and Intel, InvenSense, Analog Devices, and more, the event is designed for attendees to better understand sensor technologies and their applications.
Researchers at INCDTIM in Romania will use NanoInk's NanoFabrication Systems Division's DPN 5000 system for supramolecular structure fabrication, molecular recognition and self-assembling process applications.
Optomec opened its new and expanded Advanced Applications Lab and Product Development Facility in St. Paul, MN. The facility will help Optomec grow its Aerosol Jet additive manufacturing technology for advanced printed electronics applications.
Michael A. Fury, Ph.D., Techcet Group, reports from SEMIÂ’s International Semiconductor Strategy meeting, with a closing day focused on innovation and new applications.
SEMI presented its annual SEMI Award for North America to QD Vision. QD Vision team members made significant progress on the integration and manufacturing processes essential to the commercialization of quantum dot (QD) technology.
In 2011, Apple Inc. became the worldÂ’s largest purchaser of MEMS microphones, passing Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. AppleÂ’s share of MEMS buying amounted to 27% for the year, compared to 20% for Samsung.
The College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (CNSE) and Applied DNA Sciences (APDN) are partnering to prevent the counterfeiting of computer chips.
Hesse & Knipps Inc., the Americas subsidiary of Hesse & Knipps Semiconductor Equipment GmbH, will discuss "Wedge Bonding for RF and Microwave Devices" at the Advanced Technology Workshop and Tabletop Exhibition on RF and Microwave Packaging
The gallium nitride (GaN) LED market declined in 2011, but 2012 marks the beginning of a growth curve, with double-digit growth in 2013 and 2014, says IMS Research. Lighting revenues will overtake TV revenues for GaN LEDs a year earlier than expected.
IBM scientists have developed a flexible, non-contact, silicon microfluidic probe to accurately stain tissue sections at the micrometer scale for drug discovery and disease diagnostics research.
NAND flash memories are scaling below 2Xnm process nodes and bit errors are increasing. Research and Markets sees this as the reason for Apple buying Anobit Technologies and Micron buying Storage Genetics (both startups were developing advanced ECC and signal processing technologies).
The economic outlook for the world is dismal, the semiconductor industry has consolidated and matured to the point where itÂ’s looking for tips from the automotive industry, and unprecedented challenges must be overcome to stay on the path defined by MooreÂ’s Law. Duncan Meldrum of IHS provides a top ten list of economic trends to watch in 2012.
