01/18/2016  UK-based chipmaker Dialog Semiconductor plc's board of directors has determined not to revise its proposal to acquire US-based microcontroller and touch solutions specialist Atmel Corp., the company said.

01/18/2016  Microsemi Corporation, a provider of semiconductor solutions, announced today that Microsemi's wholly-owned subsidiary Lois Acquisition Corp. successfully merged with and into PMC-Sierra, Inc., completing Microsemi's acquisition of PMC.

01/14/2016  Researchers at the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin have developed a device and technique, called bubble-pen lithography, that can gently and effectively handle nanoparticles.

01/14/2016  Researchers at the University of Chicago and the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory, led by Juan de Pablo and Paul Nealey, may have found a way for the semiconductor industry to hit miniaturization targets on time and without defects.

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

01/14/2016  Microchip Technology Incorporated, a provider of microcontroller, mixed-signal, analog and Flash-IP solutions today announced that it was informed last night that the Board of Directors of Atmel Corporation had determined that Microchip's proposal to acquire Atmel for $8.15 per share in a cash and stock transaction constitutes a "Superior Proposal" under the terms of Atmel's merger agreement with Dialog Semiconductor PLC.

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

01/13/2016  The SEMI Industry Strategy Symposium (ISS) opened yesterday with the theme ?Integrating for Growth: Markets, Technology, Ecosystem.? The packed conference of C-level executives gave the year?s first strategic outlook of the global electronics manufacturing industry.

01/12/2016  Two GLOBALFOUNDRIES engineers, one in New York and one in Vermont, have been designated as IEEE Fellows by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.

01/12/2016  Ferrotec Corporation this week announced that the largest pure-play GaAs foundry company, WIN Semiconductors Corp., has selected Temescal systems from Ferrotec Corporation for its next stage of expansion by ordering multiple e-beam evaporators for metal deposition

01/12/2016  Worldwide semiconductor capital spending is projected to decline 4.7 percent in 2016, to $59.4 billion, according to Gartner, Inc.

01/12/2016  Stanford University researchers sponsored by Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) have developed a new area selective atomic layer deposition (ALD) process that promises to accelerate the manufacturing of higher performing, more energy efficient semiconductors.

01/11/2016  Technavio's market research analysts estimate the semiconductor capital spending market in the US, to grow at a CAGR of around 9% between 2015 and 2019.

01/11/2016  Research in memory is really exciting these days: in parallel you have the scaling of classical memories (SRAM, DRAM, Flash) and the emergence of new memories capable of enabling new applications or even new system hierarchies. At imec, we mostly focus on three concepts which all come with different challenges.

01/11/2016  The continuation of Moore’s Law requires a combination of both physical and functional scaling, where our main challenge in lithography is to continue pushing the physical scaling limits in a controlled and cost-effective way.

01/11/2016  Each year, Solid State Technology turns to industry leaders to hear viewpoints on the technological and economic outlook for the upcoming year. Read through these expert opinions on what to expect in 2016.

01/08/2016  Paper submission deadline is January 24, 2016.

01/08/2016  Worldwide semiconductor revenue totaled $333.7 billion in 2015, a 1.9 percent decrease from 2014 revenue of $340.3 billion, according to preliminary results by Gartner, Inc.

01/08/2016  AKHAN Semiconductor, Inc. this week announced that it is deploying 200mm manufacturing equipment and process in its new production facility in Gurnee, Illinois, continuing its preparation for delivering AKHAN diamond semiconductor based-technology products to the company’s first commercial customer this quarter.

01/07/2016  GlobalFoundries, TSMC, SK Hynix show greatest gains in wafer capacity in 2015.