04/30/2012 

Micron Technology Inc. and Hynix Semiconductor Inc. achieved strong NAND flash business globally in Q4 2011, thanks to solid manufacturing and pricing. The chipmakers gained market share on the NAND Flash industry leaders Samsung and Toshiba, and will continue to grow in 2012, reports IHS.

04/30/2012 

The global touch controller IC market is growing quickly, thanks to emerging natural user interfaces and touchscreens’ rapid adoption in consumer electronics. From 2011 to 2016, global touch controller revenue will grow from 0.4% of the total semiconductor industry to 1.65%.

04/30/2012 

Worldwide semiconductor revenues increased more than 3.7% year over year to $301 billion in 2011, according to the IDC Worldwide Semiconductor Applications Forecaster. IDC expects 2012 growth to be in the 6-7% range.

04/26/2012 

The global cellular baseband processor market grew 15% year-on-year in 2011, hitting $15.1 billion, shows Strategy Analytics. Of that, Qualcomm holds 45% market share.

04/26/2012 

SEMATECH experts reported on innovative processes for advanced CMOS logic and memory device technologies and 3D TSV manufacturing at the International VLSI Technology, System and Applications Symposium (VLSI-TSA).

04/25/2012 

Wafer demand grows at a CAGR of about 8-9%, but capital investment in wafer fab capacity does not stick with an 8-10% investment rate every year. Semico tracks wafer demand, which is “anything but stable.”

04/25/2012 

The overall semiconductor industry will grow 4.3% in 2012, according to IHS, which raised its forecast 1 percentage point based on consumer demand for wireless products like smartphones and tablets.

04/24/2012 

"As we expected, our business cycle bottomed in the first quarter, and early signs of growth began to emerge." -- Rich Templeton, TI's chairman, president and CEO.

04/24/2012 

Intel Corporation introduced its first product built on the 22nm 3D trigate transistor: the quad-core 3rd-generation Intel Core processor family for desktop, laptop and all-in-one (AIO) designs.

04/24/2012 

AMD (NYSE:AMD) announced Q1 2012 revenue of $1.59 billion, a net loss of $590 million and operating loss of $580 million. Analysts share their takes on AMD's 32nm and 28nm situation, ASPs, and more.

04/24/2012 

The HTC One S HSPA phone runs Android 4.0.3, based on Qualcomm’s first 28nm processor, the MSM8260A, with an Adreno 225 GPU core. ABI Research performed a teardown on the handset.

04/24/2012 

Toshiba Corporation (TOKYO: 6502) will rebuild its semiconductor manufacturing operations in Thailand by relocating Toshiba Semiconductor Thailand Co., Ltd. (TST) to a new manufacturing facility.

04/23/2012 

Freescale Semiconductor Holdings (NYSE:FSL) launched a formal process to identify a successor to Chairman and CEO Rich Beyer, who will retire as CEO after a transition.

04/23/2012 

Investments in fabless companies, semiconductor suppliers, and other chip companies fell more than 80% month/month and year/year in March, reports the Global Semiconductor Association (GSA).

04/23/2012 

IBM welcomed Asahi Kasei and Central Glass to its Battery 500 Project team, collaborating on far-reaching research to improve electric vehicles. Asahi Kasei will engineer membrane technologies and Central Glass will develop electrolytes and additives for lithium-air batteries.

04/20/2012 

Researchers sponsored by Semiconductor Research Corporation have identified a path to overcome challenges for scaling multi-core semiconductors by addressing how to scale memory communications among the cores.

04/19/2012 

The NAND flash memory market will grow 8% in 2012 to $22.9 billion, thanks to major sales drivers such as solid-state-drive (SSD) equipped ultrabooks, according to the IHS iSuppli Data Flash Market Tracker.

04/19/2012 

Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC) posted quarterly revenue of $12.9 billion, operating income of $3.8 billion, and net income of $2.7 billion. Analysts from FBR Capital Markets and Barclays Capital break down the numbers.

04/19/2012 

EPIC, the European Photonics Industry Consortium, announced at its annual general meeting that Carlos Lee has been appointed as director general, succeeding Thomas Pearsall, who has led the association since its founding in 2003.

04/19/2012 

Texas Instruments awarded 15 of its 12,000 suppliers with Supplier Excellence Awards for delivering outstanding service and support, based on cost, environmental responsibility, technology responsiveness, assurance of supply, and quality.