07/26/2017  Through the first half of the year, 2017 equipment billings are 50 percent above the same period last year.

07/25/2017  Worldwide silicon wafer area shipments increased during the second quarter 2017 when compared to first quarter 2017 area shipments according to the SEMI Silicon Manufacturers Group (SMG) in its quarterly analysis of the silicon wafer industry.

07/25/2017  Numerous smaller deals have been made but “megadeals” have yet to surface this year.

07/20/2017  Advances in semiconductor and related devices are driving significant progress in our increasingly digital world, and the place to learn about cutting-edge research in the field is the annual IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM), to be held December 2-6, 2017 at the Hilton San Francisco Union Square hotel.

07/20/2017  Grant from Energy Department's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy supports further development of cutting-edge gallium nitride-based power electronics at SUNY Poly.

07/19/2017  The semiconductor market in China continues to grow at a staggering speed. The current backbone of the electronics and telecom industry in China, semiconductor companies in China are driving innovation with new trends like spending on wafer fab equipment.

07/19/2017  Taiwan is the world's largest consumer of semiconductor materials for the seventh consecutive year, bringing new opportunities in this increasingly critical sector.

07/18/2017  The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) announced Mark Durcan, former CEO of Micron Technology, Inc., and a longtime leader in advancing semiconductor technology, has been named the 2017 recipient of SIA's highest honor, the Robert N. Noyce Award.

07/18/2017  The Semiconductor Industry Association today announced the winners of its 2017 University Research Award.

07/13/2017  Global industry R&D hub IMEC defines the “IMEC 7nm-Node” (I7N) for finFETs to have 56 nm Contacted Gate Pitch (CGP) with 40 nm Metal Pitch (MP), and such critical mask layers can be patterned with a single exposure of 0.33 N.A. EUVL as provided by the ASML NXE:3400B tool.

07/12/2017  When it comes to defects and contamination in the semiconductor manufacturing industry, most people tend to think of small, sub-nm defects at the transistor level. As important as those are, there are plenty of things that can go wrong and be seen at the macro level.

07/12/2017  In order to increase device performance, the semiconductor industry has slowly been implementing many new materials.

07/11/2017  The Linde Group is expanding production of the rare gases used by the semiconductor industry, including xenon, which is in increasing demand for etching 3D semiconductor structures.

07/10/2017  Brewer Science Inc. today announced from SEMICON West the extension of its partnership with Arkema to develop second-generation directed self-assembly (DSA) materials using high-x (chi) block copolymers.

06/29/2017  Worldwide industrial semiconductor revenues grew by 3.8 percent year-over-year in 2016, to $43.5 billion, according to the latest analysis from business information provider IHS Markit.

06/29/2017  At its recent Spring 2017 meeting, the North American Regional Standards Committee (NARSC) approved formation of a Taiwan chapter of the global SEMI Standards Automation Technology Committee.

06/28/2017  Each year at SEMICON West, the “Best of West” awards are presented by Solid State Technology and SEMI.

06/20/2017  What if the automotive industry had achieved the incredible pace of innovation as the semiconductor industry during the last 52 years?

06/20/2017  Industry experts answer questions about the new standard in a virtual roundtable.

06/20/2017  EVG resist processing and lithography systems provide pre-processing solution to enable complete damage-free advanced dry plasma dicing on thin semiconductor wafers.