03/04/2013 

Worldwide sales of semiconductors were $24.05 billion the month of January, up 3.8% from January 2012 and down 2.8% from December 2012, according to the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA).

03/04/2013 

Companies will develop integrated logic and Flash memory to enable creation of high-performance and low power electronics.

02/28/2013 

STM, Imec, CEA-LETI, ASML, Soitec and EU representatives discussed directions at ISS Europe 2013 in Italy.

02/27/2013 

Intel announced Monday a major move to expand its foundry business. Altera Corporation and Intel Corporation have entered into an agreement for the future manufacture of Altera FPGAs on Intel's 14nm tri-gate transistor technology.

02/27/2013 

Transphorm Inc. today announced at the 2013 ARPA-E Energy Innovation Summit that its novel 600V Gallium Nitride (GaN) module has enabled the world’s first GaN-based high power converter. Transphorm will demonstrate the product built with its customer-partner Yaskawa Electric, Japan at the upcoming APEC 2013 industry conference.

02/26/2013 

New marketing and technical support center opened in Reading, UK.

02/26/2013 

Snapdragon 800 processor on 28nm HPM process delivers high performance and low power for mobile devices.

02/25/2013 

The competitive landscape of the cellphone core integrated circuit (IC) business has completely transformed over the past five years, with Qualcomm Inc. and Samsung capitalizing on the rise of smartphones and 4G.

02/25/2013 

Toshiba Corporation announced the development of a CMOS image sensor with a small area and low power pixel readout circuits. A sample sensor embedded with the readout circuits shows double the performance of a conventional one. Toshiba presented this development at ISSCC 2013 in San Francisco, CA on Feb. 20.

02/22/2013 

Only light, aerial oxygen, and a catalyst are needed to remove pollutants from water. Ruhr-Universitat Bochum researchers led by Professor Radim Beránek are collaborating with colleagues from seven different countries in order to develop a photocatalyst that is efficient enough to be profitable.

02/21/2013 

At this week’s International Solid State Circuits Conference (ISSCC 2013), imec and Holst Centre presented an ultra-low power processor that operates reliably at near-threshold voltages.

02/21/2013 

Imec and Holst Centre presented at ISSCC an ultra-low power multi-standard 2.3/2.4GHz short range radio. The 1.9nJ/b radio is compliant with three wireless standards: Bluetooth Low Energy, ZigBee and Medical Body Area Networks.

02/21/2013 

Tim Turner, the Reliability Center Business Development Manager at the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (CNSE), Albany, NY, blogs about the potential of resistive memory and the reliability challenges the must be overcome.

02/20/2013 

New advancement enables the development of low-power, low-cost, high-data rate solutions for true mobile devices.

02/20/2013 

CEA-Leti today announced that it will coordinate a four-year project aimed at building a European-based supply chain in silicon photonics and speeding industrialization of the technology.

02/20/2013 

Joint effort to explore novel process techniques to improve device performance and reliability in semiconductor manufacturing for sub 20nm technology node.

02/20/2013 

STMicroelectronics announced today another milestone in its testing of its 28nm FD-SOI Technology Platform.

02/19/2013 

Yole Développement’s report provides an analysis of the emerging Non Volatile Memories (NVM) five applications fields that will fuel market growth and a description and forecasts of the four emerging NVM (MRAM, PCM, RRAM, FeRAM) technologies.

02/19/2013 

In February, Infineon received the first customer go-aheads for products of the CoolMOS family produced by the 300-millimeter line at their site in Villach, Austria.

02/18/2013 

Shimadzu Corporation today introduced the Tracera, a high-sensitivity gas chromatograph. Tracera is equipped with the newly developed barrier discharge ionization detector BID, which is capable of detecting all types of trace organic and inorganic compounds.