02/02/2016  TowerJazz, the global specialty foundry leader, announced today that it completed its previously announced acquisition of an 8-inch wafer fabrication facility in San Antonio, Texas, United States from Maxim Integrated Products, Inc.

02/01/2016  The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) today announced the global semiconductor industry posted sales totaling $335.2 billion in 2015, a slight decrease of 0.2 percent compared to the 2014 total, which was the industry's highest-ever sales total.

02/01/2016  Sweden-based SiC CVD developer and manufacturer Epiluvac AB has entered into a collaboration with SAMCO, a semiconductor process equipment developer and manufacturer based in Japan, in which Epiluvac will introduce new clients to SAMCO in Sweden, Norway, Finland and Denmark.

02/01/2016  IoT drives worldwide 200mm fab capacity in 2018 back to 2006 levels.

01/28/2016  Technavio analysts forecast the global semiconductor packaging and assembly equipment market to post a CAGR of 4.7% by 2020, according to their latest report.

01/27/2016  Samsung Electronics and Apple remained the top semiconductor buyers in 2015, representing 17.7 percent of the market, according to Gartner, Inc.

01/27/2016  A book-to-bill of 0.99 means that $99 worth of orders were received for every $100 of product billed for the month.

01/26/2016  During SEMICON China 2016 on March 15-17 in Shanghai, key government decision makers, IC fund managers, and global industry analysts will share their insights on China's IC manufacturing policy.

01/26/2016  SEMICON Korea 2016 at COEX in Seoul opens tomorrow with more than 540 exhibiting companies and an expected 40,000 attendees.

01/22/2016  Making tiny switches do enormous jobs in a more efficient way than current technology allows is one of the goals of a research team led by Cornell engineering professor Huili (Grace) Xing.

01/21/2016  The Critical Materials Council (CMC) and TECHCET have issued a call for papers to be presented at the “Critical Materials for Device Driven Scaling” Seminar to be held May 5-6, 2016 in Hillsboro, Oregon, USA.

01/21/2016  Microsemi Corporation today announced a new high power monolithic microwave surface mount (MMSM) series-shunt SP2T PIN diode reflective switch.

01/21/2016  Cypress Semiconductor Corp., today announced the addition of wafer products to its industry-leading nonvolatile random access memory (NVRAM) portfolio.

01/21/2016  Industry-wide R&D expenditures grew 0.5% to a record-high $56.4 billion in 2015. Top 10 R&D spenders collectively increased expenditures by nearly 2% in the year.

01/20/2016  Worldwide combined shipments of devices (PCs, tablets, ultramobiles and mobile phones) are expected to reach 2.4 billion units in 2016 , a 1.9 percent increase from 2015, according to Gartner, Inc.

01/19/2016  More than half of major new business processes and systems will incorporate some element of the Internet of Things (IoT) by 2020, according to Gartner, Inc.

01/15/2016  Will work with Leti, STMicroelectronics and Mentor Graphics to develop advanced 3D die-to-wafer stacking technologies using direct Cu-Cu bonding

01/14/2016  Qualcomm and TDK to expand their collaboration across multiple technologies.

01/14/2016  SEMI announced the recipients of the 2015 SEMI Awards for the Americas.

01/13/2016  Worldwide PC shipments totaled 75.7 million units in the fourth quarter of 2015, a 8.3 percent decline from the fourth quarter of 2014, according to preliminary results by Gartner, Inc