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What chipmakers will need to address growing complexity, cost of IC design and yield ramps

06/29/2015  As these early days of the Internet of Things show the network’s promise and reveal technological challenges that could threaten its ability to meet user expectations in the years ahead, technology providers will be charged with supplying the solutions that will meet those challenges.

“What’s next?” ? Advances in technology at SEMICON West 2015

06/25/2015  The latest manufacturing, materials and production developments in semiconductor and related technologies will be featured at SEMICON West 2015 on July 14-16 at Moscone Center in San Francisco, Calif.

Deca Technologies exceeds half billion units shipped

06/25/2015  Deca Technologies, an electronic interconnect solutions provider to the semiconductor industry, announced today that it has shipped more than half a billion units since the company's launch.

Power transistors seen stabilizing and setting record sales in 2015

06/25/2015  After six years of gyrating between strong increases and sales declines, the power transistor business is returning to more normal growth patterns.

Freescale takes its next generation QorIQ multicore platform to 16nm FinFET technology

06/24/2015  Freescale Semiconductor has disclosed initial details regarding the next generation of its successful QorIQ multicore processor portfolio, today announcing it will drive innovation for the secure Internet of Tomorrow (IoT) on highly advanced 16nm FinFET process technology.

SMIC, Huawei, imec, and Qualcomm in joint investment on SMIC's new R&D company

06/23/2015  The joint venture company will focus on R&D towards next generation CMOS logic technology and build China's most advanced integrated circuit (IC) development R&D platform.

UMC collaborates with ARM to validate UMC 14nm finFET process

06/22/2015  United Microelectronics Corporation, a global semiconductor foundry, today announced it has collaborated with ARM to tape out a process qualification vehicle (PQV) test chip on UMC's 14nm FinFET technology to help validate an ARM Cortex-A family core on the advanced foundry process node.

Technology innovation is driving fan-in wafer level packaging adoption with more and more applications

06/22/2015  Fan-in WLP is experiencing continuous growth and attracting new applications, according to Yole Développement's latest report “Fan-in Wafer Level Packaging: Market & Technology Trends."

IHS says Moore's Law led to trillions of dollars added to global economy

06/19/2015  From connectivity to globalization and sustainability, the “Law” created by Gordon Moore’s prediction for the pace of semiconductor technology advances has set the stage for global technology innovation and contribution for 50 years.

Sondrel announces further investment in graduate training for the semiconductor sector

06/19/2015  Graham Curren, Sondrel CEO, has announced his commitment to further investment in the training of graduate engineers looking to develop a career in the IC design sector, by providing a teaching fellow, and nine scholarship awards to students engaged on the Sondrel University of Nottingham Ningbo (UNNC) School of VLSI Design.

North American semiconductor equipment industry posts May 2015 book-to-bill ratio of 0.99

06/18/2015  North America-based manufacturers of semiconductor equipment posted $1.56 billion in orders worldwide in May 2015 (three-month average basis) and a book-to-bill ratio of 0.99.

IC manufacturers close or repurpose 83 wafer fabs from 2009-2014

06/17/2015  150mm and 200mm wafer fabs account for two-thirds of total closures.

Leti workshop covers major trends in FD-SOI technologies

06/16/2015  CEA-Leti will host a workshop on major trends in Fully Depleted Silicon-on-Insulator process and design technologies in connection with the 17th annual LetiDays Grenoble, June 24-25.

SK Hynix ramps production of high bandwidth memory

06/16/2015  SK Hynix Inc. announced today that it is shipping mass production volumes of 1st generation High Bandwidth Memory (HBM1) based on SK hynix’s advanced 20nm-class DRAM process technology.

Renesas Electronics announces Synergy Platform for IoT

06/15/2015  Renesas Electronics, a supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, today announced the Renesas Synergy Platform.

A KAIST research team develops the first flexible phase-change random access memory

06/15/2015  Phase change random access memory (PRAM) is one of the strongest candidates for next-generation nonvolatile memory for flexible and wearable electronics.

“Easy does it” ? Fabs trim spending plans

06/12/2015  Still capex and equipment spending expected to increase in 2015 and 2016.

More change for the chip industry

06/11/2015  As if scaling to 7nm geometries and going vertical with FinFETs, TSVs and other emerging technologies wasn’t challenge enough, the emerging market for connected smart devices will bring more changes to the semiconductor sector. And then there’s 3D printing looming in the wings.

Industry 4.0, automotive, and emerging markets highlights at SEMICON Europa

06/11/2015  Today, SEMI announced that SEMICON Europa 2015, the region?s largest microelectronics manufacturing event, will offer new themes to support the semiconductor industry?'s development in Europe.

ASCENT project offers unparalleled access to European nanoelectronics infrastructure

06/11/2015  Europe’s leading nanoelectronics institutes, Tyndall National Institute in Ireland, CEA-Leti in France and imec in Belgium, have entered a €4.7 million collaborative open-access project called ASCENT (Access to European Nanoelectronics Network).




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Environment, Safety & Health

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The semiconductor industry is an acknowledged global leader in promoting environmental sustainability in the design, manufacture, and use of its products, as well as the health and safety of its operations and impacts on workers in semiconductor facilities (fabs). We will examine trends and concerns related to emissions, chemical use, energy consumption and worker safety and health.

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Wafer Processing

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As the industry moves to 10nm and 7nm nodes, advances in wafer processing – etch, deposition, planarization, implant, cleaning, annealing, epitaxy among others – will be required. Manufacturers are looking for new solutions for sustained strain engineering, FinFETs, FDSOI and multi-gate technologies, 3D NAND, and high mobility transistors.

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