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The coldest chip in the world

12/20/2017  Physicists at the University of Basel have succeeded in cooling a nanoelectronic chip to a temperature lower than 3 millikelvin.

Tessera reaches global settlement with Broadcom

12/18/2017  Settlement includes multi-year license agreement.

Invensas completes DBI technology transfer to Teledyne DALSA

12/15/2017  One of the world's largest independent MEMS foundries ready to manufacture MEMS and image sensor products utilizing Invensas wafer bonding and 3D interconnect technology.

Detecting sleep apnea: Leti embeds sensors in wristband to measure heart rate and three other indicators

12/14/2017  Leti, a research institute of CEA Tech, will demonstrate at CES 2018 its new wristband that measures physical indicators of a range of conditions, including sleep apnea, dehydration and dialysis-treatment response.

New insight into battery charging supports development of improved electric vehicles

12/14/2017  First technique capable of determining lithium metal plating during lithium ion battery charging reported in Materials Today.

The world's 1st "7-axis" motion tracking devices: tiner package & better response time

12/13/2017  Accelerometers and gyroscopes are fueling the robotic revolution, especially the drones’ market segment. However, these MEMS devices are not the only ones on the market place anymore, with environmental sensors penetrating this industry too.

Plasmonic biosensors enable development of new easy-to-use health tests

12/13/2017  Researchers at Aalto University have developed a biosensor that enables creating a range of new easy-to-use health tests similar to home pregnancy tests. The plasmonic biosensor can detect diseased exosomes even by the naked eye. A rapid analysis by biosensors helps recognize inflammatory bowel diseases, cancer and other diseases rapidly and start relevant treatments in time. In addition to using discovery in biomedicine, industry may use advanced applications in energy.

USC Viterbi faculty design thermal 'skin' to maintain temperature of satellites

12/13/2017  VO2 coated silicon material designed in collaboration with Northrop Grumman performs 20 times better than current semiconductors.

ProPlus and MPI Corporation establish strategic partnership

12/12/2017  ProPlus Design Solutions Inc. and MPI Corporation today announced a strategic partnership agreement and immediate availability of a characterization and modeling solution that integrates ProPlus' SPICE modeling and noise characterization solution with MPI's advanced probing technologies.

$55.9B semiconductor equipment forecast: New record with Korea at top

12/12/2017  Today, SEMI, the global industry association representing the electronics manufacturing supply chain, released its Year-end Forecast at the annual SEMICON Japan exposition.

Discovery sets new world standard in nano generators

12/11/2017  Researchers discover new way to power electrical devices.

IBM's Khare on A.I.

12/07/2017  Mukesh Khare, VP of IBM Research, talked about the impact artificial intelligence (AI) is going to have on the semiconductor industry during a recent panel session hosted by Applied Materials. He said that today most artificial intelligence is too complex.

How to tame the electromagnetic interference in the fabs and beyond

12/07/2017  Electromagnetic interference (EMI) is an increasingly important topic across the global electronics manufacturing supply chain.

Automotive and IoT will drive IC growth through 2021

12/06/2017  IC Insights’ IC Market Drivers 2018 report also projects good increases in IC sales for medical electronics, wearable systems, cellphones, servers, and gov/mil applications.

Global semiconductor sales increase 21.9% year-to-year in October

12/05/2017  October marked the global industry's largest-ever monthly sales total.

Nambi Seshadri wins 2018 IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal

12/05/2017  Awarded for exceptional contributions to communications and networking sciences and engineering.

Google’s head of Quantum AI Lab to keynote at The ConFab 2018

12/01/2017  The ConFab 2018, to be held at The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas on May 21-23, is thrilled to announce the newest opening day Keynote speaker, Professor John M. Martinis.

Advantest launches automated IC handler with thermal control for use in semiconductor engineering labs

11/29/2017  Semiconductor test equipment supplier Advantest Corporation has developed the M4171 handler to meet the mobile electronics market's needs for cost-efficient thermal control testing of ICs with high power dissipation during device characterization and pre-production bring up.

TEL NEXX modernizes shop floor data collection and quality control with InfinityQS ProFicient

11/16/2017  Quality Intelligence solution enables chip metallization provider to improve accuracy and timeliness of data capture, rapidly respond to issues, and identify opportunities for continuous improvement.

SkyWater significantly expands pure-play technology foundry customer base

11/16/2017  SkyWater Technology Foundry announces that it has been assigned the Specialty Foundry customer relationships from Cypress Semiconductor Corporation.




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