05/02/2017  Program unveiled for 2017 Symposia on VLSI Technology & Circuits – includes short courses, focus sessions, panel discussions and demo session on "Harmonious Integration Toward Next Dimensions" theme.

05/01/2017  The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) today announced worldwide sales of semiconductors reached $30.9 billion for the month of March 2017, an increase of 18.1 percent compared to the March 2016 total of $26.2 billion and 1.6 percent more than the February 2017 total of $30.4 billion.

05/01/2017  Intel could yield the #1 position it has held since 1993.

04/28/2017  ST-MRAM (spin-transfer magnetic RAM) is an extremely promising new technology with the potential to replace major segments of the market for flash, SRAM, and DRAM semiconductors in applications such as mobile products, automotive, IoT, and data storage.

04/28/2017  SanDisk co-founder and former president & CEO to take the helm.

04/28/2017  MCU suppliers aligning themselves to be at the epicenter of big-growth opportunities in IoT, automotive, and other emerging systems.

04/27/2017  With its unique characteristics, FD-SOI is generating increasingly strong interest from major players in the semiconductor ecosystem for a very wide range of markets.

04/25/2017  The new Samsung Galaxy S8 equipped with 64 gigabytes (GB) of NAND flash memory carries a bill of materials (BOM) cost that comes out to US$301.60, much higher than for previous versions of the company’s smartphones, according to a preliminary estimate from IHS Markit.

04/25/2017  IBS scientists model the formation of multivalleys in semiconductor microcavities, bringing new ideas to the emerging valleytronics field

04/20/2017  This new series of articles highlights additional trends in process control, including successful implementation strategies and the benefits for IC manufacturing.

04/20/2017  Worldwide semiconductor wafer-level manufacturing equipment (WFE) revenue totaled $37.4 billion in 2016, an 11.3 percent increase from 2015, according to final results by Gartner, Inc.

04/19/2017  Worldwide PC shipments totaled 62.2 million units in the first quarter of 2017, a 2.4 percent decline from the first quarter of 2016, according to preliminary results by Gartner, Inc.

04/19/2017  Samsung expands 10nm capacity, to be ready for production by the fourth quarter of this year.

04/19/2017  Engineers use graphene as a 'copy machine' to produce cheaper semiconductor wafers.

04/17/2017  New technique using nano-antennas to make photonic integrated devices smaller with a broader working wavelength range could transform optical communications.

04/17/2017  At SEMICON Southeast Asia 2017, Dr. Chen Fusen, CEO of Kulicke & Soffa Pte Ltd, Singapore, will give a keynote on digital transformation in the manufacturing sector.

04/17/2017  Investor of the Year, Chrysalix Venture Capital selected over 11,000 nominees Cycle Capital Management named Canada's 2nd most active VC in 2016.

04/14/2017  Worldwide semiconductor revenue is forecast to total $386 billion in 2017, an increase of 12.3 percent from 2016, according to Gartner, Inc.

04/14/2017  Physicists achieved a robust and reliable magnetization switching process by domain wall displacement without any applied fields. The effect is observed in tiny asymmetric permalloy rings and may pave the way to extremely efficient new memory devices.

04/14/2017  DDR4 and DDR3 forecast to represent 97% of sizzling 2017 DRAM market.