10/01/2013  Semiconductor wet processes, etches and cleans, resist spin coatings and films the first services available

09/30/2013  The Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE, Soitec, CEA-Leti and the Helmholtz Center Berlin jointly announced this week having achieved a new world record for the conversion of sunlight into electricity using a new solar cell structure with four solar subcells.

09/30/2013  Alpha and Omega Semiconductor, a designer, developer and global supplier of a broad range of power semiconductors and power ICs, today launched the AOZ5019, a third-generation high efficiency power module with an EZPair package.

09/30/2013  Gigaphoton Inc. announced today that the company has jointly developed a high power CO2 drive laser for Extreme Ultraviolet (EUV) light sources with Mitsubishi Electric Corporation. Likewise, an average output level of 15W was achieved on a development EUV system – representing another step forward in realizing production level EUV light sources.

09/26/2013  Fujifilm and imec have developed a new photoresist technology for organic semiconductors that enables the realization of submicron patterns.

09/25/2013  Researchers at the Technische Universitaet Muenchen (TUM) are showing the way toward low-cost, industrial-scale manufacturing of a new family of electronic devices.

09/25/2013  Dr. Zhihong Liu, Executive Chairman, ProPlus Design Solutions, blogs about the challenges of designing for yield using SPICE models.

09/25/2013  Micron Technology, Inc. announced today that it is shipping 2GB Hybrid Memory Cube (HMC) engineering samples.

09/24/2013  A better understanding of the conductive properties of flexible semiconductors will aid in the development of bendable electronics.

09/24/2013  Applied Materials Inc. and Tokyo Electron Limited today announced Applied Materials agreed to merge with Tokyo Electron.

09/24/2013  Semtech Corporation, a supplier of analog and mixed-signal semiconductors, today announced that it has moved up four points on the Fortune Magazine list of the 100 Fastest Growing Companies that was published in the magazine’s September 16, 2013 issue.

09/24/2013  MACOM Technology Solutions Inc., a supplier of high performance RF, microwave, and millimeter wave products, today announced the newest entry in its portfolio of GaN in Plastic packaged power products.

09/24/2013  Imec and Micron Technology, Inc. announced today a three-year extension of their strategic research collaboration on advanced CMOS scaling and expanded on additional joint research efforts.

09/20/2013  Tiny nanoscale filaments could be breakthrough for smaller, denser memory devices.

09/20/2013  New technique could one day help improve the performance of microelectronics in devices ranging from batteries to spacecraft.

09/20/2013  Industry’s first MOSFET platform to deliver integrated Schottky performance with low leakage current.

09/20/2013  Mentor Graphics Corp. today announced that it has completed enhancements to its digital tool set for TSMC’s 16nm FinFET manufacturing processes.

09/19/2013  Graphene Frontiers, a Philadelphia-based advanced materials and nanotechnology company, has been awarded a $744,600 grant from the National Science Foundation. The funds will be used to develop roll-to-roll production of graphene.

09/19/2013  North America-based manufacturers of semiconductor equipment posted $1.06 billion in orders worldwide in August 2013 (three-month average basis) and a book-to-bill ratio of 0.98, according to the August EMDS Book-to-Bill Report published today by SEMI.

09/19/2013  Worldwide semiconductor manufacturing equipment spending is projected to total $34.6 billion in 2013, an 8.5 percent decline from 2012 spending of $37.8 billion, according to Gartner, Inc.