06/14/2014  Analog Devices, Inc., a developer of high-performance semiconductors for signal processing applications, today announced that Dr. Edward Frank has been elected as a Director of the Company.

06/14/2014  Techcet forecasts $1B electronic chemicals business by 2015.

06/12/2014  The introduction of new materials, such as III-Vs, into high-volume manufacturing of semiconductors, likely will occur sometime around the 7nm and/or 5nm nodes.

06/12/2014  A team of researchers from Purdue University, SEMATECH and SUNY College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering will present today at the 2014 Symposium on VLSI Technology on their work involving high-performance molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) field-effect transistors (FETs).

06/11/2014  Dow Corning today established a higher industry standard for silicon carbide (SiC) crystal quality by introducing a product grading structure that specifies ground-breaking new tolerances on killer device defects.

06/10/2014  Nanoelectronics research centre imec will present at this week’s VLSI circuits symposium 2014 (Honolulu, June 13) a low power pipelined SAR (successive-approximation register) ADC (analog to digital converter) in 28nm digital CMOS with record resolution, speed and power performance.

06/10/2014  New chemical-mechanical planarization (CMP) processes for new materials planned to be used in building future IC devices are now in research and development (R&D).

06/10/2014  Imagine the world in 2020, only five years from now. If predictions hold true, more than 50 billion devices will be connected to the Internet (creating the Internet of Things), through smart homes, smart cities, smart factories, smart everything.

06/10/2014  Researchers from the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) will introduce today the highest performing III-V metal-oxide semiconductor (MOS) field-effect transistors (FETs) at the 2014 Symposium on VLSI Technology.

06/09/2014  Researchers in the University of Toronto’s Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering have designed and tested a new class of solar-sensitive nanoparticle that outshines the current state of the art employing this new class of technology.

06/09/2014  ON Semiconductor today signed a definitive agreement to acquire Aptina Imaging, a provider of high-performance CMOS image sensors for automotive and industrial markets.

06/09/2014  Entropic announced plans today to close and consolidate several global facilities, a move that would impact approximately 23 percent of Entropic's headcount.

06/09/2014  According to the IMF and predictions by many other market research firms, 2014 and 2015 are expected to be growth years, comparable to or even better than the past few years.

06/06/2014  TowerJazz, a global specialty foundry, and Genoray Co. Ltd., a manufacturer of digital X-ray devices, today announced collaboration on the successful development of a CMOS image sensor (CIS) for medical diagnostic devices such as X-ray equipment, fluoroscopy and radiography.

06/05/2014  Micron Technology, Inc. today outlined their participation in the upcoming 2014 Symposia on VLSI Technology and Circuits scheduled for June 9-13.

06/05/2014  The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) yesterday announced that worldwide sales of semiconductors reached $26.34 billion for the month of April 2014.

06/04/2014  Spending on RF power semiconductors for the wireless infrastructure markets has taken another jump in 2013.

06/04/2014  Scaleo chip, the fabless semiconductor company in automotive electronics for powertrain, body control and driver-information, has used the GLOBALFOUNDRIES 55nm eFlash NVM Platform to develop a new family of microcontrollers.

06/04/2014  Synopsys, Inc. today announced it has extended its collaboration with STMicroelectronics to include Samsung Electronics, enabling broader market adoption of ST's 28nm FD-SOI technology for SoC design.

06/04/2014  After two years of decline, fab equipment spending is expected to increase 24 percent in 2014 and about 11 percent (US$39.5 billion).