06/30/2015  The award was established to recognize new products moving the industry forward with technological developments in the microelectronics supply chain.

06/29/2015  In 2015,Taiwan is projected to have the highest capex for semiconductor manufacturing worldwide.

06/29/2015  When the new iPhone came out, customers complained that it could be bent -- but what if you could roll up your too big 6 Plus to actually fit in your pocket? That technology might be available sooner than you think, based on the work of USC Viterbi engineers.

06/25/2015  The latest manufacturing, materials and production developments in semiconductor and related technologies will be featured at SEMICON West 2015 on July 14-16 at Moscone Center in San Francisco, Calif.

06/19/2015  From connectivity to globalization and sustainability, the “Law” created by Gordon Moore’s prediction for the pace of semiconductor technology advances has set the stage for global technology innovation and contribution for 50 years.

06/18/2015  North America-based manufacturers of semiconductor equipment posted $1.56 billion in orders worldwide in May 2015 (three-month average basis) and a book-to-bill ratio of 0.99.

06/18/2015  Researchers from North Carolina State University have created stretchable, transparent conductors that work because of the structures' "nano-accordion" design. The conductors could be used in a wide variety of applications, such as flexible electronics, stretchable displays or wearable sensors.

06/16/2015  Plasma-Therm recently presented an advanced plasma processing workshop at Xidian University in Xi’an, China that was attended by researchers, students and industry representatives and featured a day-long series of presentations about plasma processing.

06/16/2015  They are thin, light-weight, flexible and can be produced cost- and energy-efficiently: printed microelectronic components made of synthetics. Flexible displays and touch screens, glowing films, RFID tags and solar cells represent a future market.

06/15/2015  Of all TV panels expected to ship in 2016, one in five is forecast to be 4K TV.

06/15/2015  Phase change random access memory (PRAM) is one of the strongest candidates for next-generation nonvolatile memory for flexible and wearable electronics.

06/15/2015  A team of scientists from Columbia, Seoul National University (SNU), and Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science (KRISS) reported today that they have demonstrated -- for the first time -- an on-chip visible light source using graphene, an atomically thin and perfectly crystalline form of carbon, as a filament.

06/12/2015  Still capex and equipment spending expected to increase in 2015 and 2016.

06/11/2015  Today, SEMI announced that SEMICON Europa 2015, the region?s largest microelectronics manufacturing event, will offer new themes to support the semiconductor industry?'s development in Europe.

06/10/2015  Different forecasting algorithms are highlighted and a framework is provided on how best to estimate product demand using a combination of qualitative and quantitative approaches.

06/09/2015  SEMI today reported that worldwide semiconductor manufacturing equipment billings reached US$9.52 billion in the first quarter of 2015.

06/09/2015  Organic semiconductors now offer the performance, cost and route to adoption, for foldable displays; from ultra-thin, conformal, wearables to truly foldable smartphones and tablets.

06/09/2015  For 50 years, Moore’s Law has served as a guide for technologists everywhere in the world, setting the pace for the semiconductor industry’s innovation cycle.

06/09/2015  How gases are used in the manufacture of displays is being impacted by new technologies, consumer demand, and the burgeoning China market.

06/05/2015  A new, low pH, BTA free, noble-bond chemistry produced equivalent yield at substantially lower costs.