03/04/2014  A new twist on a very old physics technique could have a profound impact on one of the most buzzed-about aspects of nanoscience.

03/04/2014  Silicon Labs today announced the purchase of the full product portfolio and intellectual property of California-based Touchstone Semiconductor Inc.

03/04/2014  One of the most challenging issues in the semiconductor industry is the failure analysis (FA) investigation of devices with enduringly shrinking geometries down to single digit nanometer trench widths.

03/04/2014  The Facilities 450mm Consortium (F450C), a partnership of nanoelectronics facility companies guiding the effort to design and build the next-generation 450mm computer chip fabrication facilities, today announced Busch Vacuum Pumps and Systems as the eleventh member company to join the consortium.

03/03/2014  The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) today announced that worldwide sales of semiconductors reached $26.28 billion for the month of January 2014, an increase of 8.8 percent from January 2013 when sales were $24.15 billion, marking the industry's highest-ever January sales total and the largest year-to-year increase in nearly three years.

03/03/2014  SEMICON Europa, the region’s largest event for the microelectronics manufacturing and innovation supply chain, will be held 7-9 October 2014 in Grenoble.

02/28/2014  Intermolecular, Inc. today announced that the development activity related to the Collaborative Development Program agreement with SanDisk and Toshiba has reached its successful conclusion.

02/28/2014  In launching the iPod music player, Apple bumped consumption of NAND flash – a type of non-volatile storage device – driving down cost and paving the way for the growth of the memory technology into what is now a multibillion dollar market, supplying cost-effective storage for smart phones, tablets and other consumer electronic gadgets that do not have high density requirements.

02/26/2014  GLOBALFOUNDRIES and Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS today announced the extension of their long-term collaboration, focusing on 40nm and 28nm processes. GLOBALFOUNDRIES will also join the European Multi Product Wafer (MPW) Program EUROPRACTICE.

02/26/2014  The eBeam Initiative, a forum dedicated to the education and promotion of new semiconductor manufacturing approaches based on electron beam (eBeam) technologies, today announced the top educational themes that it will highlight in 2014.

02/26/2014  JILA physicists used an ultrafast laser and help from German theorists to discover a new semiconductor quasiparticle—a handful of smaller particles that briefly condense into a liquid-like droplet.

02/26/2014  Renesas Electronics Corporation today unveiled the RX64M Group of microcontrollers (MCUs), its first product in the flagship RX Family of 32-bit MCUs to be fabricated in a 40nm process.

02/26/2014  MIT researchers sponsored by Semiconductor Research Corporation have introduced new directed self-assembly (DSA) techniques that promise to help semiconductor manufacturers develop more advanced and less expensive components.

02/24/2014  Movidius today announced that it has joined the Global Semiconductor Alliance (GSA).

02/24/2014  SEMI announced the “Call for Papers” for technical sessions and presentations for SEMICON Europa 2014 which takes place October 7-9 in Grenoble, France.

02/24/2014  International Rectifier, IR, today announced that the company has commenced initial production at its new ultra-thin wafer processing facility in Singapore (IRSG).

02/24/2014  PLACYD, an EU funded consortium of industrial and academic collaborators and led by Arkema will establish a dedicated material manufacturing facility that allows the production of block copolymers meeting the rigorous standards required for their use in industry as nanolithographic templates.

02/21/2014  A book-to-bill of 1.04 means that $104 worth of orders were received for every $100 of product billed for the month.

02/21/2014  Based on its recent analysis of the market for radio frequency front-end module (RF FEM) solution for wireless communication, Frost & Sullivan recognizes RFaxis, Inc. with the 2014 North American Frost & Sullivan Award for Technology Innovation Leadership.

02/21/2014  Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., and the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) announced a partnership to accelerate validation and commercialization of promising new sensors, algorithms, and digital health technologies for preventive health solutions.