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.

06/25/2015  Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation, China's largest and most advanced semiconductor foundry, today announced its receipt of the "2014 Foundry Supplier of the Year" award from customer Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., a subsidiary of Qualcomm Incorporated.

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.

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.

06/23/2015  Exagan, a start-up innovator of gallium-nitride (GaN) semiconductor technology that enables smaller and more efficient electrical converters, today announced it has raised €5.7 million in first-round financing that will be used to produce high-speed power switching devices on 200mm wafers.

06/22/2015  Cadence Design Systems, Inc. and Applied Materials, Inc. today announced the companies are collaborating on a development program to optimize the chemical-mechanical planarization (CMP) process through silicon characterization and modeling for advanced-node designs at 14 nanometer (nm) and below.

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.

06/22/2015  Noel Technologies, a specialty foundry in Silicon Valley providing process development and substrate fabrication for a variety of high-technology industries, has promoted Brenda Hill to vice president of business development, marketing and sales.

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.

06/19/2015  "We have opened the door to a new room," says Professor Christof Wöll, Director of KIT Institute of Functional Interfaces (IFG).

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.

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.

06/18/2015  For the first time in the long and vaunted history of scanning electron microscopy, the unique atomic structure at the surface of a material has been resolved.

06/18/2015  Researchers from North Carolina State University have created stretchable, transparent conductors that work because of the structures' "nano-accordion" design. The conductors could be used in a wide variety of applications, such as flexible electronics, stretchable displays or wearable sensors.

06/18/2015  Entegris, Inc., a developer of yield-enhancing materials and solutions for highly advanced manufacturing environments, announced the first shipments of production quantities of UPE (ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene) membrane from its i2M Center for Advanced Materials Science in Bedford, Massachusetts.

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

06/16/2015  Plasma-Therm recently presented an advanced plasma processing workshop at Xidian University in Xi’an, China that was attended by researchers, students and industry representatives and featured a day-long series of presentations about plasma processing.

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.

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.

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