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FLEX 2019 and MSTC to highlight SMART medtech, transportation and IoT innovations

12/19/2018  Flexible and printed electronics innovations and autonomous mobility sensors will take center stage as more than 700 attendees gather for 120 market and technical presentations, 70 exhibits and four short courses at the co-located FLEX 2019 and MEMS & Sensors Technical Congress (MSTC) in Monterey, California, February 18-21, 2019.

Study on low noise, high-performance transistors may bring innovations in electronics

12/19/2018  A research study on low noise and high-performance transistors led by Suprem Das, assistant professor of industrial and manufacturing systems engineering, in collaboration with researchers at Purdue University, was recently published by Physical Review Applied.

Bigger screen TVs surged in the third quarter of 2018

12/19/2018  In the holiday season lead-in, 4K TV shipments rose to 44 percent of TV shipments and over 70 percent of revenue.

Industry leaders collaborate with Synopsys on modeling standards to address design down to 2nm

12/19/2018  Synopsys, Inc. today announced that the Liberty Technical Advisory Board (LTAB) and Interconnect Modeling Technical Advisory Board (IMTAB) have ratified new modeling constructs to address timing and parasitic extraction challenges at process nodes down to two nanometers.

North American semiconductor equipment industry posts November 2018 billings

12/19/2018  The billings figure is 4.2 percent lower than the final October 2018 level of $2.03 billion, and is 5.3 percent lower than the November 2017 billings level of $2.05 billion.

GIGAPHOTON announces seven major semiconductor chipmakers implement FABSCAPE data products

12/18/2018  Contributing to improved user productivity and yield through operational monitoring and analysis for semiconductor manufacturing equipment.

Graphene's magic is in the defects

12/18/2018  NYU researchers offer major new insights for precise engineering of ultra-small, ultra-sensitive electrochemical sensors.

Technique allows integration of single-crystal hybrid perovskites into electronics

12/18/2018  An international team of researchers has developed a technique that, for the first time, allows single-crystal hybrid perovskite materials to be integrated into electronics.

Assessing the promise of gallium oxide as an ultrawide bandgap semiconductor

12/18/2018  Researchers at the University of Florida, the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory and Korea University provide a detailed perspective on the properties, capabilities, current limitations and future developments for one of the most promising UWB compounds, gallium oxide.

JEDEC updates groundbreaking high bandwidth memory standard

12/17/2018  JEDEC Solid State Technology Association announced the publication of an update to JESD235 High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) DRAM standard.

New property revealed in graphene could lead to better performing solar panels

12/17/2018  International research team, co-led by UC Riverside physicist, shows how pure graphene efficiently converts light into electricity.

Pressure tuned magnetism paves the way for novel electronic devices

12/17/2018  Using ultrasensitive magnetic probes, researchers unveil a surprising link between emergent magnetism and mechanical pressure in artificially engineered non-magnetic oxide heterostructures.

SiFive recognized as Most Respected Private Semiconductor Company

12/14/2018  RISC-V leader honored for its products, growth and performance by Global Semiconductor Alliance.

MIT team invents method to shrink objects to the nanoscale

12/14/2018  MIT researchers have invented a way to fabricate nanoscale 3-D objects of nearly any shape. They can also pattern the objects with a variety of useful materials, including metals, quantum dots, and DNA.

DRAM growth tops industry ranking in 2018; Outlook dims for 2019

12/14/2018  DRAM fastest growing market in four of past six years, demonstrating very cyclical market.

SST and SK hynix system ic partner to expand availability of embedded SuperFlash technology

12/13/2018  Leading 200 mm foundry selects SST's SuperFlash technology for 110 nm CMOS process platform.

FO-WLP panel production becomes a reality

12/13/2018  Panel FO-WLP is in production at Powertech Technology, Inc. (PTI) for MediaTekÂ’s power management integrated circuit (PMIC) for smartphone applications.

Ferdinand-Braun-Institut chooses ClassOne for three additional wet processing tools

12/13/2018  ClassOne Technology, global supplier of wet processing equipment for <200mm semiconductor manufacturing, announced the sale of three more tools to the Ferdinand-Braun-Institut, Leibniz-Institut für Höchstfrequenztechnik (FBH) in Berlin, Germany.

Micron delivers industry's highest-capacity monolithic mobile memory for MediaTek's newest Helio smartphone platform

12/13/2018  Micron Technology, Inc., a developer of memory and storage solutions, today announced that its monolithic 12Gb low-power double data rate 4X (LPDDR4X) DRAM has been validated for use in MediaTek's new Helio P90 smartphone platform reference design.

Seoul Semiconductor wins patent litigation against Everlight in Germany

12/12/2018  Seoul Semiconductor Co., Ltd. announced that it won a patent litigation against Everlight Electronics Co., Ltd. in Germany.