10/30/2015  Texas Instruments (Maxim Integrated) and STMicro (Fairchild) may be considering large acquisitions.

10/29/2015  According to a report from IC Insights, the worldwide market for optoelectronics, sensors and actuators, and discrete semiconductors (O-S-D) has turned into a mixed bag of double-digit growth for several major product categories combined with single-digit declines in sales for nearly a dozen others.

10/28/2015  InvenSense announced it has released for OEM review UltraPrint, its ultrasonic fingerprint imaging solution, manufactured on the proprietary InvenSense CMOS-MEMS Platform (ICMP).

10/27/2015  mCube announced the industry’s first 3-axis accelerometer which is less than a cubic millimeter in total size.

10/27/2015  Integrated Device Technology, Inc. announced an agreement to acquire privately held ZMDI for total consideration of $310M in cash.

10/27/2015  Brewer Science, Inc., and Arkema announced a partnership to produce high-quality directed self-assembly (DSA) materials for use in semiconductor manufacturing.

10/26/2015  RIKEN scientists have discovered that wrinkles in graphene can restrict the motion of electrons to one dimension, forming a junction-like structure that changes from zero-gap conductor to semiconductor back to zero-gap conductor.

10/26/2015  Mentor Graphics Corporation announced an update to the Mentor (R) Embedded Nucleus (R) real time operating system (RTOS) targeting low power, next-generation applications for connected embedded and IoTdevices.

10/23/2015  Researchers at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have designed the first on-chip metamaterial with a refractive index of zero.

10/23/2015  North America-based manufacturers of semiconductor equipment posted $1.60 billion in orders worldwide in September 2015 (three-month average basis) and a book-to-bill ratio of 1.07.

10/22/2015  Two years after the launch of the PICS project , three European SMEs, IPDiA, Picosun, and SENTECH Instruments along with CEA-Leti and Fraunhofer IPMS-CNT announce the major technological results achieved.

10/22/2015  A report that resulted from a workshop funded by Semiconductor Research Corporation and National Science Foundation outlines key factors limiting progress in computing and novel device and architecture research that can overcome these barriers.

10/21/2015  Lam Research Corporation (LRCX) and KLA-Tencor Corporation (KLAC) announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement for Lam Research to acquire all outstanding KLA-Tencor shares in a cash and stock transaction.

10/21/2015  Western Digital Corporation and SanDisk Corporation today announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement where Western Digital will purchase SanDisk.

10/20/2015 

10/20/2015  An advance look at some of the most newsworthy topics and papers that will be presented at this year's IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting.

10/20/2015  Stanford engineers have created a plastic "skin" that can detect how hard it is being pressed and generate an electric signal to deliver this sensory input directly to a living brain cell.

10/20/2015  SITRI announced the opening of SITRI Innovations in Belmont, California during a recent event attended by many of Silicon Valley's leading investors, technologists, entrepreneurs, and incubators.

10/19/2015  We are in a historic era for consolidation among semiconductor manufacturers, and the reasons are surprising.

10/19/2015  Siborg has recently made a new MicroTec version available particularly targeting educational use of the software.