10/19/2015  German chemical company Evonik Industries AG and Japanese FPD production equipment manufacturer SCREEN Finetech Solutions Co., Ltd. have signed a contract for a strategic partnership.

10/19/2015  New solar cell construction extends the cell's effective life in air by more than 10 times, with only a marginal loss of efficiency converting sunlight to electricity.

10/19/2015  Applied Materials, Inc. announced it plans to establish a new R&D laboratory in Singapore in collaboration with the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR).

10/16/2015  A study published in Advanced Materials Interfaces by the Energy Materials and Surface Sciences Unit at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST) reveals a cause for the short lifetime of perovskite solar cells with silver electrodes.

10/15/2015  The global automotive MEMS sensor market was valued at $2,600.5 million in 2014, and it is expected to grow at a CAGR of 6.0%, during the period 2015-2020.

10/14/2015  A new paper from the University of Oregon shows that nanohoops can be made using a variety of atoms, not just those from carbon.

10/13/2015  VeriSilicon Holdings Co., Ltd. and Vivante Corporation announced a definitive merger agreement.

10/13/2015  Japan has long played a critical role in semiconductor manufacturing and accounts for the largest portion of the global total installed fab capacity in 2015 according to the SEMI Fab database.

10/12/2015  According to a new market research report published by MarketsandMarkets, the market is expected to grow at a CAGR of 6.83% between 2015 and 2020, and reach $4.94 Billion by 2020.

10/12/2015  Penn State materials scientists have discovered a way to give the transistor a boost by incorporating vanadium oxide.

10/08/2015  mCube announced the sampling of its new MC3635 3-axis accelerometer featuring the industry's lowest power consumption and a microscopic 1.6x1.6 mm Land Grid Array package.

10/07/2015  CEA-Leti announced that it has joined the GLOBALSOLUTIONS ecosystem as an ASIC provider, specifically to support GLOBALFOUNDRIES' 22FDX (TM) technology platform.

10/07/2015  SEMI announced today that FlexTech Alliance has become the first SEMI Strategic (Association) Partner.

10/06/2015  Entegris, Inc. has expanded its wafer shipper family of products with the SmartStack (R) 300 mm Contactless Horizontal Wafer Shipper.

10/05/2015  Altatech announced the expansion of its Eclipse series with a new, high-speed inspection system dedicated to ultra-thin, transparent and bonded substrates inspection for 3D applications in power, MEMS, and mobile technologies.

10/05/2015  The path to alternative scaling is now open.

10/02/2015  Yamaichi Electronics presents Test Contactors for lab and reliability applications and ultra fine pitch semiconductor devices.

10/01/2015  IBM Research announced an engineering breakthrough that could accelerate carbon nanotubes replacing silicon transistors to power future computing technologies.

10/01/2015  Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing kicked off its Open Innovation Platform (OIP) Ecosystem Forum with thanks – not for another beautiful day in Silicon Valley, but for the collaborative work it does with its customers, suppliers, and other industry partners.

10/01/2015  Yang and his collaborators have created a synthetic “leaf” that is a hybrid system of semiconducting nanowires and bacteria.