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Materials accelerating innovation at SEMI Strategic Materials Conference

06/14/2017  Today SEMI announced that the two-day Strategic Materials Conference (SMC) is slated for September 19-20 at San Jose's Doubletree by Hilton Hotel.

Breakthrough by Queen's University paves way for smaller electronic devices

06/14/2017  Queen's University Belfast researchers have discovered a new way to create extremely thin electrically conducting sheets, which could revolutionise the tiny electronic devices that control everything from smart phones to banking and medical technology.

Osram's next-generation of LEDs set new standards in miniaturization

06/14/2017  Osram Opto Semiconductors today presented the latest generation of surface-mountable LED, the Topled E1608, with a package smaller than its predecessor models by a factor of 20.

SEMICON West to highlight China growth surge

06/14/2017  SEMI today announced the addition of a new high-profile program on China to its 2017 conference lineup for SEMICON West (July 11-13).

Intel contributes high-level pattern analysis language to Si2

06/13/2017  Silicon Integration Initiative Inc. announced today the contribution of a new integrated circuit programming language developed by Intel Corporation for the 2D pattern analysis of sub-20nm mask layouts.

Imec world-first to develop 200V, 650V dispersion free normally-off/e-mode power devices on 200mm/8-inch Si wafers

06/13/2017  Imec announced today that it has developed 200V and 650V normally-off/enhancement mode (e-mode) on 200mm/8-inch GaN-on-Silicon wafers.

NREL-led research effort creates new alloys, phase diagram

06/13/2017  A multi-institutional team led by the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) discovered a way to create new alloys that could form the basis of next-generation semiconductors.

Automotive touch screen shipments to top 50M units in 2017

06/12/2017  With consumers already accustomed with using smartphones and tablet PCs in their everyday lives, touch screens are now increasingly making their way into their vehicles, too.

SUNY ranks among top 100 worldwide for patents granted in 2016

06/12/2017  The State University of New York ranked 38th in the “Top 100 Worldwide Universities Granted U.S. Utility Patents for 2016,” according to the National Academy of Inventors (NAI) and Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO).

New computing system takes its cues from the human brain

06/12/2017  The new system employs a network of electronic oscillators to solve graph coloring tasks – a type of problem that tends to choke modern computers.

Cypress Executive Chairman Ray Bingham steps down from Board

06/12/2017  Cypress Semiconductor Corporation announced that Executive Chairman Ray Bingham has tendered his resignation as Executive Chairman and is stepping down from the Board of Directors.

SiTime enables industrial IoT applications with smallest, lowest-power, precision MEMS reference clocks

06/12/2017  These timing solutions, available in a tiny CSP (chip-scale package), enable coin-cell battery operated IoT sensors to run up to 10 years.

The drive to smart manufacturing

06/09/2017  What does Smart Manufacturing mean for the future of the electronics manufacturing supply chain?

Dow Corning CL-1000 optical silicone binder extends thermal and optical performance for chip-scale LED package designs

06/09/2017  Dow Corning today introduced Dow Corning CL-1000 Optical Silicone Binder, a new, more thermally stable, high refractive index (RI) material available only in China that is formulated to expand design options for high-power chip-scale LED packaging (CSP).

Researchers image quasiparticles that could lead to faster circuits, higher bandwidths

06/09/2017  A research team led by Iowa State University's Zhe Fei has made the first images of half-light, half-matter quasiparticles called exciton-polaritons. The discovery could be an early step to developing nanophotonic circuits that are up to 1 million times faster than current electrical circuits.

The first nanometrically-sized superelastic alloy

06/09/2017  UPV/EHU-University of the Basque Country's researchers have explored superelasticity properties on a nanometric scale based on shearing an alloy's pillars down to nanometric size.

Artificial intelligence: A new era of the advanced packaging industry

06/08/2017  AI is driving the development of 3D TSV and heterogeneous integration technologies.

SEMICON West preview: Equipment components and subsystems

06/08/2017  Attention turns to subcomponents to improve yields at advanced nodes.

Imec achieves record-low source/drain contact resistivity for PMOS transistors

06/08/2017  Imec is wrapping up at the Symposia on VLSI Technology this week with two announcements: the reporting of record breaking values below 10^-9 Ohm.cm² for PMOS source/drain contact resistivity and new process improvements for next generation devices.

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.