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SITRI and Bosch announce IoT technology collaboration

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

Researchers find new phase of carbon, create diamond at room temp

12/01/2015  Researchers from North Carolina State University have discovered a new phase of solid carbon, called Q-carbon, which is distinct from the known phases of graphite and diamond.

Tandem solar cells are simply better

11/24/2015  What is true for double-blade razors is also true for solar cells: two work steps are more thorough than one.

Silicon Labs acquires Telegesis, a provider of ZigBee modules

11/24/2015  A privately held company founded in 1998 and based near London, Telegesis has established itself as a ZigBee expert with strong momentum in the smart energy market, providing ZigBee module solutions to many of the world’s top smart metering manufacturers.

Trillium announces acquisition of Oxford Instruments - Austin Division

11/24/2015  Trillium US Inc, headquartered in Clackamas, OR, has announced the acquisition of the Oxford Instruments - Austin division.

The inertial MEMS device market keeps on growing. What's next?

11/23/2015  Gyroscope and accelerometer production volumes are also growing, with the following CAGR: 7.9% and 1.6% respectively over the same period. Every sector will keep growing. So, what’s next?

Highlights from Day 2 of IDTechEx Printed Electronics USA 2015

11/23/2015  IDTechEx Printed Electronics USA 2015, held in Santa Clara, CA Nov 18-19, is one mega conference with 8 co-located tracks ranging from sensor technology & wearables to IoT, energy harvesting & storage to electric vehicles, 3D printing and graphene.

Highlights from Day 1 of IDTechEx Printed Electronics USA 2015

11/19/2015  IDTechEx Printed Electronics USA 2015, held in Santa Clara, CA Nov 18-19, is one mega conference with eight co-located tracks ranging from sensor technology & wearables to IoT, energy harvesting & storage to electric vehicles, 3D printing and graphene.

SEMI Industry Strategy Symposium: Integrating market, technology and ecosystem growth

11/19/2015  Today, SEMI announced details about the SEMI Industry Strategy Symposium (ISS) on January 10-13 where semiconductor executives will discuss ?Integrating for Growth: Markets, Technology, and Ecosystem? in Half Moon Bay, Calif.

Europe’s secondary industry in the spotlight

11/17/2015  The dramatic shift from the trend for increasingly advanced technology to a vast array and volume of application-based devices presents Europe with a huge opportunity.

What lies beneath? 50 years of enabling Moore’s Law

11/17/2015  Vacuum technology trends can be seen over the period of innovation defined by Moore’s Law, particularly in the areas of increasing shaft speed, management of pumping power, and the use computer modeling.

Wafer bonding for high performance MEMS, power devices, and RF components

11/17/2015  Recent trends and future directions for wafer bonding are reviewed, with a focus on MEMS.

Researchers design and patent graphene biosensors

11/16/2015  Graphene is the first truly two-dimensional crystal, which was obtained experimentally and investigated regarding its unique chemical and physical properties. There has now been a considerable increase in the number of research studies aimed at finding commercial applications for graphene and other two-dimensional materials.

Bosch Sensortec CEO recognized with Lifetime Achievement Award

11/13/2015  Bosch Sensortec announced that its CEO, Dr. Stefan Finkbeiner, has been chosen by the MEMS & Sensors Industry Group to receive its prestigious MEMS/Sensors Lifetime Achievement Award.

SEMICON Korea 2016: Connect to the future

11/13/2015  The theme for the January 27 through 29 exhibition at Seoul’s COEX is “Connect to the Future – Markets, Technology, and People.”

Cut costs: Improve competitive advantage

11/13/2015  Systematic – and predictive – cost reduction in semiconductor equipment manufacturing

Security by design

11/13/2015  The advent of Internet-connected devices, the so-called Internet of Things (IoT), offers myriad opportunities and significant risks. It is our collective responsibility, as an industry, to secure the transport and storage of the data. Failing to properly secure the data risks turning the digital threat into a physical threat.

A new slant on semiconductor characterization

11/12/2015  Method analyzes non-uniform conductors with a magnetic field.

GLOBALFOUNDRIES launches high-performance ASIC offering on 14nm FinFET process technology

11/11/2015  GLOBALFOUNDRIES today announced the availability of FX-14, an ASIC offering built on the company's next-generation 14nm FinFET process technology.

Gartner: 6.4B connected "Things" in use in 2016

11/11/2015  Gartner, Inc. forecasts that 6.4 billion connected things will be in use worldwide in 2016, up 30 percent from 2015, and will reach 20.8 billion by 2020.




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The semiconductor industry is an acknowledged global leader in promoting environmental sustainability in the design, manufacture, and use of its products, as well as the health and safety of its operations and impacts on workers in semiconductor facilities (fabs). We will examine trends and concerns related to emissions, chemical use, energy consumption and worker safety and health.

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Wafer Processing

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As the industry moves to 10nm and 7nm nodes, advances in wafer processing – etch, deposition, planarization, implant, cleaning, annealing, epitaxy among others – will be required. Manufacturers are looking for new solutions for sustained strain engineering, FinFETs, FDSOI and multi-gate technologies, 3D NAND, and high mobility transistors.

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