09/19/2017 Seoul Semiconductor Co., Ltd. announced on Sept. 19, 2017 that it has filed a patent infringement lawsuit, together with its affiliate, Seoul Viosys Co., Ltd., against Archipelago Lighting, Inc. in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California.
09/19/2017 Scarce metals are found in a wide range of everyday objects around us. They are complicated to extract, difficult to recycle and so rare that several of them have become "conflict minerals" which can promote conflicts and oppression. A survey at Chalmers University of Technology now shows that there are potential technology-based solutions that can replace many of the metals with carbon nanomaterials, such as graphene.
09/19/2017 GLOBALFOUNDRIES and Soitec today announced that they have entered into a five-year agreement to ensure the volume supply of state-of-the-art fully depleted silicon-on-insulator (FD-SOI) wafers.
09/19/2017 The future of smart, self-driving cars means massive change for electronics suppliers, from advanced internal networks, to 5G communications with the road ahead ? and even AI drivers' licenses.
09/19/2017 Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC), today announced that Samsung Electronics Company Ltd. (Samsung), one of the world's largest chipmakers, has signed an agreement to join SRC's research consortium. Samsung will participate in two SRC platforms – the New Science Team (NST) project and the Global Research Collaboration (GRC) program.
09/18/2017 Cadence Design Systems, Inc. today announced that it has received three TSMC Partner of the Year awards at this year's TSMC Open Innovation Platform (OIP) Ecosystem Forum.
09/18/2017 Intel Corporation today announced that Andrew Wilson, CEO of Electronic Arts Inc., has been elected to Intel's board of directors. Wilson's election brings Intel's board membership to 12.
09/18/2017 GLOBALFOUNDRIES today announced the availability of a new set of enhanced RF SOI process design kits (PDKs) to help designers improve their designs of RF switches and deliver differentiated RF front-end solutions for a wide range of markets including front-end modules for mobile devices, mmWave, 5G and other high-frequency applications.
09/18/2017 Decades ago, the Moore's law predicted that the number of transistors in a dense integrated circuit doubles approximately every two years. This prediction was proved to be right in the past few decades, and the quest for ever smaller and more efficient semiconductor devices have been a driving force in breakthroughs in the technology.
09/15/2017 Researchers and exhibitors will showcase their work during a comprehensive conference program of technical papers, panels, special sessions, short courses/tutorials, and an exhibition that will spotlight premier work in the fields of microelectronics, semiconductor packaging and circuit design.
09/15/2017 The large thin film transistor (TFT) display market is expected to continue to expand in 2017 despite slower end-market demand, according to IHS Markit.
09/15/2017 Entegris Inc. announced at SEMICON Taiwan today the availability of its Oktolex membrane technology for advanced point-of-use photolithography applications.
09/15/2017 Cadence Design Systems, Inc. today announced that John Wall, corporate vice president of finance and corporate controller of Cadence, has been appointed senior vice president and chief financial officer of Cadence, effective October 1, 2017.
09/15/2017 Flex Logix Technologies, Inc., a supplier of embedded FPGA IP and software, today announced it has won the TSMC Open Innovation Platform's Partner of the Year Award 2017 in the category of New IP for its EFLX embedded FPGA IP product.
09/15/2017 TowerJazz, the global specialty foundry, today announced the release of its advanced 5V 65nm power process providing customers with multiple advantages over 0.18um 5V technologies.