02/20/2014  Researchers have developed the technology for a catheter-based device that would provide forward-looking, real-time, three-dimensional imaging from inside the heart, coronary arteries and peripheral blood vessels.

02/20/2014  The Semiconductor Industry Association announced that worldwide semiconductor sales for 2013 reached $305.6 billion, the industry’s highest-ever annual total and an increase of 4.8 percent from the 2012 total of $291.6 billion.

02/20/2014  A microscope in a needle, a handheld device that prescribes corrective eyeglasses, and a device for heart attack diagnosis are winning projects in the 2014 SPIE Startup Challenge.

02/20/2014  The International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductor (ITRS) is being reframed to focus more on end applications, such as smartphones and micro-servers.

02/20/2014  A team of researchers from the University of California, Riverside Bourns College of Engineering and Russian Academy of Science have demonstrated a new type of holographic memory device that could provide unprecedented data storage capacity and data processing capabilities in electronic devices.

02/20/2014  Plasma-Therm announced today that it has entered into a new cross licensing agreement with ON Semiconductor to enable wafer singulation processes.

02/20/2014  Inpria Corporation announced today that it has received $4.7M of a committed $7.3M financing. The round was led by Samsung Venture Investment Corporation, the global investment arm of the Samsung Group, along with significant participation from Intel Capital, Intel’s global investment and M&A organization.

02/20/2014  Embedded SRAM scaling is broken and, with it, Moore's Law.

02/19/2014  Avantor Performance Materials, a global manufacturer and supplier of high-performance chemistries, announces the appointment of Jean-Paul Mangeolle to its Board of Directors.

02/18/2014  A research collaboration consisting of IHP-Innovations for High Performance Microelectronics in Germany and the Georgia Institute of Technology has demonstrated the world's fastest silicon-based device to date.

02/18/2014  Imec, in collaboration with Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium, presents the world’s first 79 GHz radar transmitter implemented in plain digital 28nm CMOS.

02/18/2014  Dr. Tae-Wook Kim at KIST announced their successful development of a 64-bit memory array using flexible and twistable carbon nano material and organo-polymer compound, which can accurately store and delete data.

02/18/2014  Analysts at ReportsNReports forecast the Global Power Discrete market to grow at a CAGR of 8.43% over the period 2013-2018.

02/18/2014  GaN Systems Inc, a developer of gallium nitride power switching semiconductors, has announced the appointment of Tony Astley as Director of European Operations.

02/18/2014  M/A-COM Technology Solutions Inc., a supplier of high performance analog, RF, microwave and millimeter wave products, last week announced that it has acquired Nitronex, LLC.

02/18/2014  Renesas Electronics Corporation today announced that it has developed the industry's first 28nm flash memory intellectual property (IP) for microcontrollers (MCUs) using a 28nm process technology.

02/14/2014  Dow Electronic Materials, a business unit of The Dow Chemical Company, today introduced the IKONIC 4000 series of chemical mechanical planarization (CMP) polishing pads.

02/14/2014  Honeywell announced today that it has introduced new copper manganese (CuMn) sputtering targets for semiconductor manufacturing based on patented technology offering customers higher strength, longer life, and better performance.

02/13/2014  Advanced Energy Industries, Inc. today will highlight its advanced pulsing technology at SEMICON Korea 2014.

02/13/2014  Whenever a new material is discovered, scientists are eager to find out whether or not it can be superconducting. This applies particularly to the wonder material graphene.