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Intersil to start operations as Renesas Electronics America in January 2018

12/19/2017  Renesas Electronics Corporation today announced the integration of Intersil Corporation as a legal entity and a new branding policy following the acquisition of Intersil on February 24, 2017.

EVG completes latest phase of production capacity expansion at corporate headquarters

12/19/2017  Newly opened building with advanced cleanroom technology provides additional space for final assembly of EVG process equipment and technical source inspection by the company's global customers.

Largest SEMICON China ever targets industry growth

12/19/2017  More than 70,000 players in the electronics manufacturing industry are expected to descend upon SEMICON China for technology and innovation insights to accelerate already strong industry growth.

Tessera reaches global settlement with Broadcom

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

Intel unveils industry's first FPGA integrated with high bandwidth memory built for acceleration

12/18/2017  Intel today announced the availability of the Intel Stratix 10 MX FPGA, the industry’s first field programmable gate array (FPGA) with integrated High Bandwidth Memory DRAM (HBM2).

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.

IXYS announces 200V power MOSFETs with fast body diodes and lowest on-resistances

12/14/2017  Fabricated using a charge compensation principle and IXYS' own process technology, these new MOSFETs exhibit the lowest on-state resistances in the industry.

QuickLogic collaborates with Mentor to provide seamless design environment for eFPGA technology

12/14/2017  QuickLogic Corporation, a developer of ultra-low power multi-core voice-enabled SoCs, embedded FPGA IP, display bridge and programmable logic solutions, announced that it has collaborated with Mentor, a Siemens business, to provide a seamless design and development environment for its embedded FPGA (eFPGA) technology.

4Q DRAM sales put exclamation point on an amazing year of growth

12/13/2017  Forecast for record quarterly DRAM sales of $21.1 billion, with 74% annual growth expected.

aveni extends copper interconnects to 5nm and below for BEOL integration

12/12/2017  aveni S.A., developer and manufacturer of market-disrupting wet deposition technologies and chemistries for 2D interconnects and 3D through silicon via packaging, today announced it has obtained results that strongly support the continued use of copper in the back end of line (BEOL) for advanced interconnects, at and beyond the 5nm technology node.

$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.

EVG installs low-temp plasma activation system at the University of Tokyo

12/12/2017  EVG 810LT system enables low-temperature direct wafer bonding of III-V compound semiconductor materials and germanium-on-silicon wafers with field-proven high-quality plasma surface preparation.

Leti develops world's first micro-coolers for CERN particle detectors

12/11/2017  Leti, a research institute of CEA Tech, today announced it has created the world's first microfluidic circuit for cooling a particle detector, perhaps paving the way to a revolutionary, new detector technique at the Large Hadron Collider.

Leti memory breakthrough point way to significant improvements in SoC memories

12/08/2017  Leti, a research institute of CEA Tech, demonstrated significant improvements in the field of memory systems at IEDM 2017 this week.

3D acoustic images expand their usefulness

12/07/2017  3D acoustic imaging is useful for measuring the heights of bumps on BGAs, flip chips, and other devices. But it can also be used to image and quantify depth/height variation of features within a particular sample.

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.

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.

Solutions for controlling resin bleed out

12/05/2017  The hows and whys of resin bleed-out (RBO) are discussed, as well as the impact it makes and how to control it.

Reveal previously invisible defects and contaminants in advanced packaging applications

12/05/2017  A new illumination technology compares favorably to conventional bright field illumination.

Nambi Seshadri wins 2018 IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal

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




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