01/19/2018  Qualcomm Incorporated today announced that the European Commission and the Korea Fair Trade Commission authorized the acquisition by Qualcomm River Holdings B.V. of NXP Semiconductors N.V.

01/19/2018  Nagoya University-led researchers produce 2D sheets of tin atoms predicted to have exotic uses in electronics.

01/19/2018  Technique could lead to new classes of materials that can bend light, such as for those used in cloaking devices.

01/18/2018  Numerous smaller deals were made but "megadeals" were scarce last year.

01/18/2018  SkyWater Technology Foundry, the industry's most advanced U.S.-based and U.S.-owned trusted foundry, announced today that it has appointed Steve Wold as Chief Financial Officer.

01/18/2018  A team of electrical engineers at The University of Texas at Austin, in collaboration with Peking University scientists, has developed the thinnest memory storage device with dense memory capacity, paving the way for faster, smaller and smarter computer chips for everything from consumer electronics to big data to brain-inspired computing.

01/18/2018  Scientists at Berkeley Lab study exotic material's properties, which could make possible a new form of data storage.

01/17/2018  2017 proved to be record-setting year for the semiconductor industry. According to World Semiconductor Trade Statistics (WSTS), worldwide semiconductor market will have grown 20 percent, exceeding $400 billion for the first time.

01/17/2018  Everspin Technologies, Inc., a developer and manufacturer of discrete and embedded MRAM, today announced the Company recorded revenue for its first 40nm 256Mb STT-MRAM products in the fourth quarter of 2017 and is in the process of ramping its volume production in 2018

01/17/2018  ASML Holding N.V. (ASML) today announces that the Supervisory Board intends to appoint Roger Dassen as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer (CFO) to the Board of Management.

01/17/2018  Littelfuse, Inc. today announced the completion of its acquisition of IXYS Corporation.

01/12/2018  Power management, signal conversion, and automotive-specific analog markets drive expansion.

01/11/2018  Worldwide semiconductor revenue totalled $419.7 billion in 2017, a 22.2 percent increase from 2016, according to preliminary results by Gartner, Inc. Undersupply helped drive 64 percent revenue growth in the memory market, which accounted for 31 percent of total semiconductor revenue in 2017.

01/11/2018  SEMI today announced that Luc Van den hove, president and CEO of imec, has been selected as the 2018 recipient of the SEMI Sales and Marketing Excellence Award, inspired by Bob Graham. He will be honored for outstanding achievement in semiconductor equipment and materials marketing during ceremonies at ISS 2018 on January 17 in Half Moon Bay, California.

01/11/2018  This article is the first in a five-part series on semiconductors in the automotive industry. In this article, we introduce some of the challenges involved in the automotive supply chain. Future articles in the series will address specific process control solutions to those challenges.

01/10/2018  These were key highlights from a SEMI Member Forum in December that brought together industry representatives and students in Dresden to weigh in on job-skills challenges facing the electronics manufacturers and solutions for the industry to consider.

01/09/2018  ON Semiconductor has announced a strategic collaboration with ConvenientPower Systems (CPS) whereby CPS will design, develop and market in-vehicle wireless charging solutions using ON Semiconductor’s NCV6500 application dedicated, power management controller.

01/09/2018  Arrow Electronics, Inc. announced today the successful completion of its acquisition of eInfochips, one of the world’s largest design and managed services companies.

01/09/2018  GLOBALFOUNDRIES and STMicroelectronics today announced that ST has selected GF's 22nm FD-SOI (22FDX) technology platform to support its next-generation of processor solutions for industrial and consumer applications.

01/08/2018  Semtech Corporation, a supplier of high performance analog and mixed-signal semiconductors and advanced algorithms, announced its next generation LoRa devices and wireless radio frequency (RF) technology (LoRa Technology) chipsets enabling innovative LPWAN use cases for consumers with its advanced technology.