11/11/2015  The world electronics market will consume over 121 billion analog ICs in 2015 and grow to over $56 billion by 2020.

11/10/2015  New research suggests wrapping silver nanowires with an ultrathin layer of graphene protects the structures from damage and could represent a key to realizing their commercial potential.

11/06/2015  GLOBALFOUNDRIES today announced it has demonstrated silicon success on the first AMD products using its most advanced 14nm FinFET process technology.

11/05/2015  With the emergence of the IoT (Internet of Things), advanced packaging is clearly the enabling technology providing solutions for mobile applications and for semiconductor devices fabricated at 16 nm and below process nodes.

11/04/2015  MW Industries announced the acquisition of Servometer and BellowsTech.

11/04/2015  SEMI announced further details on SEMICON Japan, to be held at Tokyo Big Sight on December 16 through 18.

11/04/2015  Allegro MicroSystems announced the release of a dual-channel Hall-effect latch featuring two-dimensional (2D) sensing via a combination of vertical Hall and planar Hall elements.

11/03/2015  FEI Company and DCG Systems, Inc. announced an agreement where FEI willacquire DCG for $160 million in an all cash transaction.

11/03/2015  FEI announced the Helios G4 DualBeam series, which offers the highest throughput ultra-thin TEM lamella preparation for leading-edge semiconductor manufacturing and failure analysis applications.

11/03/2015  Innovative Micro Technology announced a partner agreement with Silicon Catalyst, a startup incubator focused exclusively on semiconductor solutions.

11/03/2015  SIA announced worldwide sales of semiconductors reached $85.2 billion during the third quarter of 2015, an increase of 1.5 percent compared to the previous quarter.

11/03/2015  DCG Systems announced the release of EBIRCH, a technology for localizing shorts and other low-resistance faults that may reside in the interconnect structures or the polysilicon base layer of integrated circuits.

11/03/2015  SEMI announced today that the deadline for presenters to submit an abstract for the 27th annual SEMI Advanced Semiconductor Manufacturing Conference (ASMC) is November 2.

11/03/2015  Tsinghua Unigroup Ltd., a Chinese government-owned chipmaker will make a $600 million investment in Powertech Technology of Taiwan, according to multiple reports.

11/02/2015  X-FAB Silicon Foundries announced it will expand the capacity and capabilities of its Kuching-based foundry operation, X-FAB Sarawak Sdn. Bhd., to meet accelerating demand for its core technologies.

10/30/2015  Ziptronix, Inc. announced it has entered into a development agreement with Fraunhofer IZM-ASSID.

10/30/2015  Texas Instruments (Maxim Integrated) and STMicro (Fairchild) may be considering large acquisitions.

10/29/2015  According to a report from IC Insights, the worldwide market for optoelectronics, sensors and actuators, and discrete semiconductors (O-S-D) has turned into a mixed bag of double-digit growth for several major product categories combined with single-digit declines in sales for nearly a dozen others.

10/29/2015  Toshiba Corp. will retreat from the CMOS image sensor business, by selling the production line at its Oita plant to Sony Corp.

10/29/2015  An international team of researchers from Lomonosov Moscow State University and the Australian National University in Canberra created an ultrafast all-optical switch on silicon nanostructures.