06/08/2015  Imagination Technologies (IMG.L) and TSMC announce a collaboration to develop a series of advanced IP subsystems for the Internet of Things (IoT) to accelerate time to market and simplify the design process.

06/08/2015  CEA-Leti announced today during the Design Automation Conference that seven partners have joined its new FD-SOI IC development program, Silicon Impulse.

06/05/2015  Sankalp Semiconductor, a chip design service company, announced that it has signed an agreement with STMicroelectronics to serve as an FD-SOI services and IP partner.

06/05/2015  Imec researchers have developed a novel technique – termed conductive atomic force microscopy tomography (or scalpel C-AFM) – that enables a three-dimensional characterization of emerging logic and memory devices.

06/05/2015  A new, low pH, BTA free, noble-bond chemistry produced equivalent yield at substantially lower costs.

06/05/2015  Black phosphorus reveals its secrets thanks to a scientific breakthrough made by a team from Universite de Montreal, Polytechnique Montreal and CNRS in France.

06/04/2015  Fab equipment spending is forecast to depart from the typical historic trend over the past 15 years of two years of spending growth followed by one of decline. For the first time, equipment spending could grow every year for three years in a row: 2014, 2015, and 2016.

06/04/2015  A summary of OASIS standard advantages and weaknesses is presented, based on six years of experience with customer databases.

06/03/2015  The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) announced worldwide sales of semiconductors reached $27.6 billion for the month of April 2015, 4.8 percent higher than the April 2014 total of $26.3 billion and 0.4 percent lower than last month's total of $27.7 billion.

06/02/2015  Merger activity in the semiconductor industry moved to a new level with the announcement of the agreement for Avago Technologies to acquire Broadcom.

06/02/2015  GLOBALFOUNDRIES, a provider of advanced semiconductor manufacturing technology, today announced it has reached a critical milestone in providing a design infrastructure for its 14-nanometer (nm) FinFET process technology.

06/02/2015  EULITHA, a Swiss startup company offering innovative lithography equipment and services for the nanotechnology, photonics and optoelectronic markets announced today the delivery of its unique PhableR 100 photolithography tool to the MESA + NanoLab of the University of Twente in the Netherlands.

06/01/2015  As the fabless business model has transformed the semiconductor manufacturing landscape, Taiwan and South Korea have undeniably grown into key semiconductor producing regions. However, it should be noted that North America is home to Intel, Texas Instruments, Micron, GLOBALFOUNDRIES, Freescale, Fairchild, Microchip, ON Semiconductor, significant operations of Samsung, and other manufacturers.

05/29/2015  IC Insights has downgraded its forecast for the overall personal computing market, including much lower growth in tablets and continued weakness in standard PCs.

05/29/2015  NXP Semiconductors N.V. today announced an agreement that will facilitate the sale of its RF Power business to Jianguang Asset Management Co. Ltd.

05/29/2015  Avago Technologies Limited and Broadcom Corporation today announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Avago will acquire Broadcom in a cash and stock transaction that values the combined company at $77 billion in enterprise value.

05/29/2015  Portable electronics - typically made of non-renewable, non-biodegradable and potentially toxic materials - are discarded at an alarming rate in consumers' pursuit of the next best electronic gadget.

05/26/2015  United Microelectronics Corporation, a global semiconductor foundry, today unveiled its UMC Auto technology platform to target IC companies designing chips for automotive applications.

05/26/2015  GaN Systems, a developer of gallium nitride power switching semiconductors, today confirmed the world’s smallest 650V, 15A gallium nitride transistor.

05/26/2015  Digital Specialty Chemicals Limited (DSC), a dual bottom line corporation and leading provider of advanced materials to the semiconductor, pharmaceutical, and specialty chemical markets, announced that it has received an equity investment from Intel Capital, Intel Corporation’s global investment organization.