02/22/2016  Global smartphone sales exhibited slowest growth since 2008; iPhone sales declined for the first time.

02/18/2016  Semiconductor lithographic use of Neon is increasing more rapidly than expected for several reasons including the delay of EUVL while demand for finer line width patterning is increasing.

02/18/2016  Flat-panel display (FPD) equipment spending this year will reach its highest level since 2011, according to IHS Inc.

02/18/2016  With the growing popularity of the Samsung Galaxy Edge series and the Apple Watch, display manufacturers are expanding their production capacity of flexible AMOLED displays.

02/18/2016  Shipments of organic light-emitting materials used to produce organic light-emitting diode (OLED) displays grew 12 percent year over year in 2015, reaching 26,000 tons, according to IHS.

02/18/2016  Veeco Instruments Inc. announced today the launch of the new TurboDisc K475i Arsenic Phosphide MOCVD System for the production of red, orange, yellow light emitting diodes.

02/12/2016  Scientists have developed a simple and powerful method for creating resilient, customized, and high-performing graphene: layering it on top of common glass.

02/12/2016  Over 600 electronics professionals are expected to attend the 15th annual Flexible and Printed Electronics Conference and Exhibition (2016FLEX) at the Monterey Marriott February 29-March 3.

02/10/2016  An engineering research team at the University of Alberta has invented a new transistor that could revolutionize thin-film electronic devices.

02/10/2016  Worldwide silicon wafer area shipments increased 3 percent in 2015 when compared to 2014 area shipments according to the SEMI Silicon Manufacturers Group (SMG) in its year-end analysis of the silicon wafer industry.

02/10/2016  Orbotech Ltd. today announced that, Nippon Mektron Mektec, a maker of flexible printed circuit boards (FPCBs), is deploying Orbotech direct imaging (DI) and automated optical inspection (AOI) systems in multiple factories.

02/09/2016  As of December 2015, roughly half of the world’s total IC wafer production capacity was located in seismically active areas.

02/03/2016  Researchers at North Carolina State University have discovered a new phase of the material boron nitride (Q-BN), which has potential applications for both manufacturing tools and electronic displays.

02/01/2016  The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) today announced the global semiconductor industry posted sales totaling $335.2 billion in 2015, a slight decrease of 0.2 percent compared to the 2014 total, which was the industry's highest-ever sales total.

02/01/2016  IoT drives worldwide 200mm fab capacity in 2018 back to 2006 levels.

01/27/2016  A book-to-bill of 0.99 means that $99 worth of orders were received for every $100 of product billed for the month.

01/26/2016  The ongoing issue of liquid crystal display (LCD) oversupply -- exacerbated by China’s aggressive investment in production capacity as well as high fab utilization -- will continue well into 2016.

01/26/2016  During SEMICON China 2016 on March 15-17 in Shanghai, key government decision makers, IC fund managers, and global industry analysts will share their insights on China's IC manufacturing policy.

01/26/2016  SEMICON Korea 2016 at COEX in Seoul opens tomorrow with more than 540 exhibiting companies and an expected 40,000 attendees.

01/21/2016  The Critical Materials Council (CMC) and TECHCET have issued a call for papers to be presented at the “Critical Materials for Device Driven Scaling” Seminar to be held May 5-6, 2016 in Hillsboro, Oregon, USA.