12/16/2011 

STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM), a global semiconductor company, launched ST New Ventures, its corporate venture capital fund currently under incorporation.

12/14/2011 

Marc Heyns, fellow at research consortium imec, discusses the group's work on chip fab materials beyond silicon, namely, Ge and III-V, presented in "Advancing CMOS beyond the silicon roadmap with germanium and III-V devices" at IEDM.

12/14/2011 

During IEDM, imec presented the world

12/13/2011 

Mike Mayberry, VP and director of components research, Intel Corp. and Billy Dally, VP and chief scientist, NVIDIA will keynote the 15th Annual IEEE IITC, June 2012 in San Jose, CA.

12/13/2011 

The Global Semiconductor Alliance named its 2011 awards recipients at a celebration last week in CA. Outstanding semiconductor companies worldwide were recognized for "success, vision and strategy in the industry." Winners include Broadcom, Intel, and lesser-known companies like Amalfi Semiconductor.

12/12/2011 

Dennis Buss, a visiting scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and consultant at Texas Instruments (TI), presented "Research in self-powered electronic systems (#10.4)" at IEEE's International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM) recently. He shares key results here.

12/09/2011 

Printed electronics materials and equipment suppliers, as well as academics and industry, were honored with annual awards at the IDTechEx Printed Electronics USA 2011 in Santa Clara, CA.

12/09/2011 

SMIC entered into a settlement agreement with Elpida Memory Inc. to settle all pending arbitration claims and counterclaims relating to the parties' Amended and Restated 200mm Wafer Products Business Agreement.

12/08/2011 

SuVolta Inc., developer of scalable low-power CMOS technologies, revealed its Deeply Depleted Channel (DDC) low-power transistor technology at IEEE's IEDM 2011 this week in Washington DC.

12/07/2011  SEMATECH’s director of front end processes, Paul Kirsch, discusses two of the consortium’s papers presented at IEEE's International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM) with Solid State Technology in a podcast interview

12/07/2011 

imec is presenting a record number of 17 papers at the IEEE International Electron Device Meeting (IEDM), ending today in Washington, DC.

12/07/2011 

Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC), university-research consortium for semiconductors and related technologies, is working with Cornell University researchers to develop on-chip silicon technologies for mobile devices. The aim is a micro-mechanical resonator for RF MEMS.

12/06/2011 

The WSTS' newest version of its twice-a-year semiconductor industry outlook shows some softer segments than just six months ago. Hope you enjoyed 2010's 30% blowout, because the next three years will flatline at low- to mid-single-digit growth.

12/05/2011 

Wall Street watchers still see a mixed bag after tallying October chip sales, with some lingering concerns about inventories, but overall everyone seems to agree with full-year 2011 chip projections of 1%-2%.

12/05/2011 

Chipworks' Dick James maps out the entire 2011 2011 IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting, taking a closer look at what he sees as the more interesting papers in various sessions and what he plans to attend in person.

12/02/2011 

Using the advanced through-silicon via (TSV) fabrication process at IBM (NYSE:IBM), Micron Technology Inc. (NASDAQ:MU) will begin producing its Hybrid Memory Cube. The companies claim that this is the first CMOS design to go commercial with TSV interconnects.

12/02/2011 

Intel Corp.'s semiconductor market dominance has been eroded for several years by Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., but reversed this trend in 2011. Acquisition played a key role, not just for Intel, but for 5 of the other top-20 semiconductor chip companies, says analyst firm IHS.

11/30/2011 

Sluggish demand in Western markets and a persistently-strong yen are cited as reasons to adjust output and institute shutdowns across the company's Japanese manufacturing footprint.

11/29/2011 

The Institute of Microelectronics, a research institute of Singapore's A*STAR, plans to commercialize key innovations in silicon photonic chips designed to support high-speed, high-bandwidth optical communications.

11/29/2011 

Dr. John Chen, VP of technology and foundry operations at Nvidia, and Thomas Jefferson, ISMI's 450mm project manager, are among the updated speaking roster of ConFab 2012, which will address the economics of semiconductor manufacturing and associated industries (LEDs, MEMS, displays).