07/08/2014  On Monday, Applied Materials announced two new systems, a Reflexion LK Prime CMP system and a Producer XP Precision CVD system, both aimed at complex devices with 3D architectures.

07/08/2014  Everybody loves FinFETs! Well, not everybody, really, is behind double-gate or multiple-gate field-effect transistors.

07/08/2014  Extreme-ultraviolet lithography is making progress! Well, check that. EUV technology is progressing, yet it remains uncertain when its insertion into volume production of semiconductors will occur.

07/08/2014  Intel, Samsung Electronics, and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing have made their moves into three-dimensional semiconductors. Now it remains to be seen how the rest of the semiconductor industry will make the transition to 3DICs.

07/08/2014  A collection of the first fully patterned 450mm wafers are on display at SEMICON West this week at the newly merged SUNY CNSE/SUNYIT exhibit, booth 517, located in the Moscone Center’s South Hall. The wafers will be on display throughout the exhibition and showcased in the 450 mm Technology Development Session on Thursday July 10th.

07/08/2014  The Center aims to accelerate the development of next generation CMP technology, and to drive improvement in the yield and cost of ownership of CMP processes.

07/08/2014  Applied Materials, Inc. and Tokyo Electron Limited today unveiled the new name and logo of their combined company which will be used once the merger closes.

07/08/2014  The long night in solar energy may be coming to an end.

07/08/2014  With mobile devices continuing to shrink in size and wearable electronics emerging as a new market for semiconductors, advanced packaging technologies are taking on increasing importance in the global supply chain. Aside from the 3DIC package/system-in-package area, what is going on in semiconductor packaging these days?

07/07/2014  FinScale Incorporated, the semiconductor device and process innovation company, today announced immediate availability of its qFinFETTM technology, a next generation 3D MOSFET architecture and manufacturable process readily transferable to foundries and integrated device manufacturers

07/07/2014  SEMI today announced that Martin Anstice, president and CEO, Lam Research Corporation; Kevin Crofton, president and COO, SPTS Technologies; Tien Wu, COO, ASE Group; and Guoming Zhang, executive vice president, Sevenstar Electronics, were elected as new directors to the SEMI International Board of Directors in accordance with the association's by-laws.

07/07/2014  SEMI projects back-to-back years of double-digit growth in worldwide semiconductor equipment sales according to the mid-year edition of the SEMI Capital Equipment Forecast, released here today at the annual SEMICON West exposition.

07/03/2014  Jordan Valley Semiconductors Ltd., a supplier of X-ray based metrology tools for advanced semiconductor manufacturing lines, today announced that its micro-spot X-ray Fluorescence (µXRF) metrology tool has been qualified for production monitoring of advanced Wafer Level Packaging (WLP) processes, by another memory player.

06/20/2014  North American semiconductor equipment industry posts May 2014 book-to-bill ratio of 1.00.

06/19/2014  Design and construction professionals are showing unprecedented levels of collaboration through the G450C.

06/14/2014  Techcet forecasts $1B electronic chemicals business by 2015.

06/09/2014  Entropic announced plans today to close and consolidate several global facilities, a move that would impact approximately 23 percent of Entropic's headcount.

06/05/2014  The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) yesterday announced that worldwide sales of semiconductors reached $26.34 billion for the month of April 2014.

06/03/2014  Plasma-Therm, a global provider of semiconductor equipment, has again been ranked number one in an independent survey of customers, the company announced today.

06/02/2014  Test professionals who want to learn, forecast and debate the future of semiconductor test will attend the 7th annual IEEE Test Vision 2020 Workshop, held in conjunction with SEMICON West 2014 (July 8-10) in San Francisco.