03/24/2016  Since 2000, we have entered the age of sensing and interacting with the wide diffusion of MEMS and sensors that give us a better, safer perception of our environment. MEMS have grown in volume to be almost a 15 billion units market today.

03/24/2016  Teams vie for expert consulting services, MEMS foundry package, specialized software tools, industry group membership.

03/17/2016  SITRI and CEA-Leti, in affiliation with MINATEC, this week announced the signing of a comprehensive agreement for ongoing collaboration and cooperation in developing new technologies to power the emerging Internet of Things (IoT) market.

03/16/2016  The semiconductor IP market is expected to reach $7.01 billion USD by 2022 from USD 3.09 Billion in 2015, at a CAGR of 10.55% between 2016 and 2022, according to the newly released report from MarketsandMarkets.

03/11/2016  Nanoelectronics research center imec has today announced the opening of its new 300mm cleanroom.

03/09/2016  IoT Planet, a new European event dedicated to the Internet of Things (IoT), will co-locate this year with SEMICON Europa (25-27 October) in Grenoble, France.

03/07/2016  EV Group (EVG) today announced that its EVG GEMINI 300mm automated wafer bonding system is ready for implementation into MEMS high-volume manufacturing.

02/23/2016  NTU's new radar chip was presented and published at the prestigious International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) 2016.

02/22/2016  Vesper today announced a partnership with AAC Technologies Holdings Inc. for the commercialization of the world’s first piezoelectric MEMS microphones for consumer electronic devices.

02/22/2016  Nanoelectronics research center, imec, and digital research and incubation center, iMinds, announced that its respective board of directors have approved the intention to merge the research centers.

02/18/2016  Researchers from Brown University's School of Engineering have made an important fundamental advance that could make such devices more practical.

02/03/2016  The popularity of Apple’s iPhone 6S and other products is boosting the microelectromechanical-systems (MEMS) microphones market to a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 11 percent from 2015 to 2019.

01/25/2016  The demand for sensor hubs, dedicated processing elements used for low-power sensor processing tasks, is booming.

01/22/2016  According to the report, the global MEMS microphone market is expected to reach close to USD 2 billion by 2020, posting a CAGR of over 12%.

01/20/2016  Acoustic sensing company works with top foundry to support mass-market consumer products.

01/14/2016  Researchers at the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin have developed a device and technique, called bubble-pen lithography, that can gently and effectively handle nanoparticles.

12/10/2015  Using a new procedure researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and the Ludwig Maximillians University of Munich (LMU) can now produce extremely thin and robust, yet highly porous semiconductor layers. A very promising material - for small, light-weight, flexible solar cells, for example, or electrodes improving the performance of rechargeable batteries.

12/07/2015  Kicking off IEDM, imec and Coventor are expanding their existing joint development project to explore process variation issues in 7nm chip technology.

12/04/2015  National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) researchers are seeing the light, but in an altogether different way. And how they are doing it just might be the semiconductor industry's ticket for extending its use of optical microscopes to measure computer chip features that are approaching 10 nanometers, tiny fractions of the wavelength of light.

12/02/2015  The agreement covers IoT applications such as smart home, wearable devices, smart city, Industry 4.0 and robotics.