06/03/2014  Faster electronic device architectures are in the offing with the unveiling of the world’s first fully two-dimensional field-effect transistor (FET) by researchers with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab).

06/03/2014  Synopsys, Inc. and Intel Corporation today announced broad SoC design enablement for Intel's 14nm Tri-Gate process technology for use by customers of Intel Custom Foundry.

06/03/2014  Plasma-Therm, a global provider of semiconductor equipment, has again been ranked number one in an independent survey of customers, the company announced today.

06/03/2014  Georgia Institute of Technology researchers collaborating with and sponsored by Intel Corporation through the Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) have developed a physics-based modeling platform that advances spintronics interconnect research for beyond-CMOS computing.

06/03/2014  Nakamura will succeed Yoichi Nakagawa, who is retiring from SEMI.

06/02/2014  Samsung today announced that the IP and design enablement ecosystem for its foundry’s 14nm FinFET process technology is firmly in place as customers begin their early design work.

06/02/2014  Test professionals who want to learn, forecast and debate the future of semiconductor test will attend the 7th annual IEEE Test Vision 2020 Workshop, held in conjunction with SEMICON West 2014 (July 8-10) in San Francisco.

06/02/2014  A work led by the Institut Català de Nanociència i Nanotecnologia (ICN2) Phononic and Photonic Nanostructures Group suggests a new method to produce hexagonal periodic arrays with high fidelity while reducing time and costs.

05/29/2014  ams, a manufacturer of high performance sensor and analog solutions, announces that the company has won a last-instance verdict against Melexis.

05/29/2014  Noel Technologies, a Silicon Valley specialty foundry offering process development and substrate fabrication, has added semiconductor industry veteran Siavash Parsa to its growing management staff.

05/29/2014  NanGate, Inc. – a provider of design-specific standard cell library IP and EDA tools for layout automation – announced that it has released the first edition of a new 15nm open cell library (OCL).

05/29/2014  The semiconductor industry never lacks for challenges and/or controversy as it forges ahead from one technology node to the next.

05/28/2014  The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) today announced that global semiconductor industry leaders reached an agreement at the 18th annual meeting of the World Semiconductor Council (WSC) last week on a series of policy proposals to strengthen the industry through international cooperation.

05/28/2014  The 60th annual IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM) has issued a Call for Papers seeking the world's best original work in all areas of microelectronics research and development.

05/28/2014  SEMI today announced that SEMICON West 2014 will feature Bob Metcalfe, professor at the University of Texas at Austin, as the Silicon Innovation Forum’s keynote speaker.

05/28/2014  Amkor Technology, Inc. and Carsem today jointly announced the settlement of the litigation initiated by Amkor against Carsem alleging infringement of Amkor's MicroLeadFrame (MLF) patents.

05/27/2014  ams AG, a provider of high performance analog ICs and sensors, has launched a new micro-site in China in an initiative designed to provide a more direct channel for communication with China's one million-strong electronic design and engineering community.

05/27/2014  Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania have led an effort to create an artificial chemical sensor based on one of the human body's most important receptors, one that is critical in the action of painkillers and anesthetics..

05/27/2014  Transistors maintain electrical properties after implantation.

05/27/2014  Intel Corporation today announced it has entered into a strategic agreement with Rockchip to expand the breadth of and accelerate the rate at which it brings its Intel architecture and communications-based solutions to market for a range of entry-level Android tablets worldwide.