10/28/2015  ETEL S.A. announces the opening of a new research and development division.

10/27/2015  Integrated Device Technology, Inc. announced an agreement to acquire privately held ZMDI for total consideration of $310M in cash.

10/27/2015  Brewer Science, Inc., and Arkema announced a partnership to produce high-quality directed self-assembly (DSA) materials for use in semiconductor manufacturing.

10/26/2015  RIKEN scientists have discovered that wrinkles in graphene can restrict the motion of electrons to one dimension, forming a junction-like structure that changes from zero-gap conductor to semiconductor back to zero-gap conductor.

10/23/2015  Researchers at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have designed the first on-chip metamaterial with a refractive index of zero.

10/23/2015  An important step towards next-generation ultra-compact photonic and optoelectronic devices has been taken with the realization of a two-dimensional excitonic laser.

10/23/2015  North America-based manufacturers of semiconductor equipment posted $1.60 billion in orders worldwide in September 2015 (three-month average basis) and a book-to-bill ratio of 1.07.

10/22/2015  Total wafer shipments this year are expected to exceed the market high set in 2014 and are forecast to continue shipping at record levels in 2016 and 2017.

10/22/2015  IC Insights recently released its October Update to The McClean Report, which examined the effects of slowing worldwide GDP growth and a stronger U.S. dollar on the 2015 IC market forecast.

10/22/2015  Two years after the launch of the PICS project , three European SMEs, IPDiA, Picosun, and SENTECH Instruments along with CEA-Leti and Fraunhofer IPMS-CNT announce the major technological results achieved.

10/22/2015  A report that resulted from a workshop funded by Semiconductor Research Corporation and National Science Foundation outlines key factors limiting progress in computing and novel device and architecture research that can overcome these barriers.

10/21/2015  Advanced Linear Devices, Inc. (ALD) announced a family of Supercapacitor Auto Balancing (SAB) Metal Oxide Semiconductor Field Effect Transistors (MOSFET) designed for industrial applications.

10/21/2015  Lam Research Corporation (LRCX) and KLA-Tencor Corporation (KLAC) announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement for Lam Research to acquire all outstanding KLA-Tencor shares in a cash and stock transaction.

10/21/2015  Western Digital Corporation and SanDisk Corporation today announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement where Western Digital will purchase SanDisk.

10/20/2015 

10/20/2015  An advance look at some of the most newsworthy topics and papers that will be presented at this year's IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting.

10/20/2015  SITRI announced the opening of SITRI Innovations in Belmont, California during a recent event attended by many of Silicon Valley's leading investors, technologists, entrepreneurs, and incubators.

10/19/2015  We are in a historic era for consolidation among semiconductor manufacturers, and the reasons are surprising.

10/19/2015  Siborg has recently made a new MicroTec version available particularly targeting educational use of the software.

10/19/2015  Microsemi Corporation announced that it submitted an offer to acquire PMC-Sierra, Inc in a cash and stock transaction.