02/13/2014  SPTS Technologies, a supplier of advanced wafer processing solutions for the global semiconductor industry and related markets today announced the opening of a new office in Korea.

02/13/2014  ROHM Semiconductor today introduced the development of the BD5291G and the BD5291FVE low voltage, low offset operational amplifiers (opamp) designed to amplify signals from motion sensors such as accelerometers and gyroscopes.

02/12/2014  At this week’s International Solid State Circuits Conference (ISSCC2014), imec and Holst Centre, together with Olympus, demonstrated a low-power single channel implantable electrocardiography (ECG) acquisition chip with analog feature extraction, which enables precise monitoring of the signal activity in a selected frequency band.

02/12/2014  Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd. and imec Holst Centre today announced that they have developed a wireless transceiver circuit for use in body area networks (BAN) for medical applications that adheres to the 400 MHz-band international standard.

02/11/2014  Intermolecular, Inc. and Guardian Industries announced today the expansion and extension of their collaborative development program and strategic IP licensing agreement.

02/11/2014  Rudolph Technologies, Inc. announced today the sale of its first NSX 320 TSV Metrology System to CEA-Leti, a research organization based in Grenoble, France.

02/11/2014  A research team led by Ken Shepard, professor of electrical engineering and biomedical engineering at Columbia Engineering, and Lars Dietrich, assistant professor of biological sciences at Columbia University, has demonstrated that integrated circuit technology, the basis of modern computers and communications devices, can be used for a most unusual application—the study of signaling in bacterial colonies.

02/11/2014  Worldwide silicon wafer revenues declined by 13 percent in 2013 compared to 2012 according to the SEMI Silicon Manufacturers Group (SMG) in its year-end analysis of the silicon wafer industry.

02/11/2014  EV Group (EVG), a supplier of wafer bonding and lithography equipment for the MEMS, nanotechnology and semiconductor markets, today unveiled its most advanced 300-mm photoresist processing system for logic and memory high-volume manufacturing.

02/07/2014  The Financial Times (FT) is reporting that IBM Corp is exploring the sale of its semiconductor business and has hired Goldman Sachs to find potential buyers.

02/07/2014  Moving from round wafers to rectangular panels saves corner space, delivering a roughly 10% improvement in surface utilization.

02/07/2014  EUV’s off-axis mask illumination introduces a special problem in EUV OPC – the shadowing effect.

02/06/2014  The closing Executive Panel discussion at the SEMI Industry Strategy Symposium on January 15 provoked diverse views on the drivers and future of innovation in the microelectronics manufacturing supply chain.

02/06/2014  The worldwide reclaim wafer market is estimated at $460 million in 2013 and is forecasted to reach $493 million by 2015, according to SEMI.

02/06/2014  SEMI’s second annual European 3D TSV Summit was held in Grenoble in late January. Three hundred and twenty attendees met to discuss the status of 2.5/3DIC and other advanced packaging technologies.

02/06/2014  Intel Corporation today announced that its board of directors elected five new corporate vice presidents.

02/06/2014  Using electrons more like photons could provide the foundation for a new type of electronic device that would capitalize on the ability of graphene to carry electrons with almost no resistance even at room temperature – a property known as ballistic transport.

02/04/2014  A new theoretical model developed by professors at the University of Houston (UH) and Université de Montréal may hold the key to methods for developing better materials for solar cells.

02/04/2014  New research shows that a remarkable defect in synthetic diamond produced by chemical vapor deposition allows researchers to measure, witness, and potentially manipulate electrons in a manner that could lead to new "quantum technology" for information processing.

02/04/2014  Entegris, Inc. and ATMI today announced Entegris will acquire ATMI for approximately $1.15 billion, or approximately $850 million net of cash acquired, including the net cash proceeds from the sale of ATMI’s LifeSciences business of $170 million.