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Mentor Graphics acquires Flexras Technologies

01/13/2015  The Flexras timing-driven partitioning technology will expand and strengthen the portfolio of tools available from Mentor to help engineers overcome the challenges of increasingly complex design prototyping.

IHS identifies technologies to transform the world over next five years

01/12/2015  The Internet of Everything, cloud computing/big data and 3-D printing are the three technologies most likely to transform the world during the next five years, according to IHS Technology.

Graphene plasmons go ballistic

01/12/2015  Graphene combined with the insulting power of boron nitride enables light control in tiny circuits with dramatically reduced energy loss.

DRAM capacity rises from slump; Sector faces new challenges

01/12/2015  SEMI today announced details from the SEMI World Fab Forecast Report illuminating the state of the semiconductor manufacturing industry, coincident with convening SEMI’s Industry Strategy Symposium (ISS) in Half Moon Bay, Calif.

Silicon Space Technology partners with GLOBALFOUNDRIES to deliver processors and memory solutions

01/09/2015  Silicon Space Technology, an industry innovator in high-temp and rad-hard embedded system solutions, announced today the company has partnered with GLOBALFOUNDRIES to build commercial-ready products for extreme environments and applications.

New secondary fab equipment market report available from SEMI

01/09/2015  With new cost-sensitive semiconductor devices driving capacity demand, 200mm wafer size and currently existing (legacy) fabs are seeing a renaissance, SEMI completed a thorough study of the secondary fab equipment market to identify the market size and to capture key trends and issues impacting this industry segment.

GLOBALFOUNDRIES and Linear Dimensions to offer joint analog solution for wearables and MEMs sensors markets

01/09/2015  GLOBALFOUNDRIES and Linear Dimensions Semiconductor Inc. today announced that they are working together to manufacture a 14-channel programmable reference from Linear Dimensions for multiple markets including IoT (Internet of Things) sensor and wearable device applications.

SEMICON West 2015: “Call for Papers” for Semiconductor Technology Symposium and TechXPOTs

01/07/2015  SEMI today announced a “Call for Papers” for SEMICON West, North America’s premier microelectronics event, to be held July 14-16 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, Calif.

ON Semiconductor demonstrates high efficiency 3D sensor stacking technology

01/06/2015  ON Semiconductor has successfully characterized and demonstrated its first fully-functional stacked CMOS imaging sensor featuring a smaller die footprint, higher pixel performance and better power consumption compared to traditional monolithic non-stacked designs.

Freshmen-level chemistry solves the solubility mystery of graphene oxide films

01/06/2015  A Northwestern University-led team recently found the answer to a mysterious question that has puzzled the materials science community for years--and it came in the form of some surprisingly basic chemistry.

European 3D TSV Summit 2015: What business for 3D smart systems?

01/06/2015  SEMI Europe will ring in the New Year by holding the first major, international 3D TSV event of 2015. On January 19-21, members of the 3D TSV industry will convene in Grenoble, France for the 3rd edition of the European 3D TSV Summit.

UCT announces new CEO

01/05/2015  Ultra Clean Holdings, Inc. today announced that Mr. James Scholhamer has accepted an offer to become UCT's Chief Executive Officer, effective Monday, January 19, 2015.

HLMC develops specialty technology in pursuit of growing IoT market

01/05/2015  Chinese IC manufacturer Shanghai Huali Microelectronics Corporation gave a presentation on its outlook for the Internet of Things (IoT) market and the wide application of its specialty technology at the 2014 China Semiconductor Industry Association IC Design Branch Annual Conference ("ICCAD"), which was recently held at Hong Kong Science Park.

Global semiconductor sales in November outpace 2013 totals

01/05/2015  The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA), representing U.S. leadership in semiconductor manufacturing and design, today announced that worldwide sales of semiconductors reached $29.7 billion for the month of November 2014.

A new hardmask process, Saphira

12/23/2014  A new hardmask material and process was introduced this month by Applied Materials. Designed for advanced logic and memories, including DRAM and vertical NAND, the hardmask is transparent, which simplifies processing.

The ConFab 2015: Time for collaboration

12/23/2014  The future of the semiconductor industry continues to shine brightly.

Global semiconductor market set for strongest growth in four years in 2014

12/23/2014  Worldwide semiconductor market revenue is on track to achieve a 9.4 percent expansion this year, with broad-based growth across multiple chip segments driving the best industry performance since 2010.

Hands on: Crafting ultrathin color coatings

12/22/2014  In Harvard's high-tech cleanroom, applied physicists produce vivid optical effects on paper.

Piezoelectricity in a 2-D semiconductor

12/22/2014  Berkeley Lab researchers discovery of piezoelectricty in molybdenum disulfide holds promise for future MEMS.

Eliminating electrostatic discharge: Protecting tomorrow's technology

12/22/2014  A new range of dissipative materials based on fluoroelastomer and perfluoroelastomer polymers is designed for wafer processing and wafer handling applications.




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Environment, Safety & Health

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The semiconductor industry is an acknowledged global leader in promoting environmental sustainability in the design, manufacture, and use of its products, as well as the health and safety of its operations and impacts on workers in semiconductor facilities (fabs). We will examine trends and concerns related to emissions, chemical use, energy consumption and worker safety and health.

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Wafer Processing

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As the industry moves to 10nm and 7nm nodes, advances in wafer processing – etch, deposition, planarization, implant, cleaning, annealing, epitaxy among others – will be required. Manufacturers are looking for new solutions for sustained strain engineering, FinFETs, FDSOI and multi-gate technologies, 3D NAND, and high mobility transistors.

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