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The positive sides of doping

08/14/2013 

Flexible thin film solar cells that can be produced by roll-to-roll manufacturing are a highly promising route to cheap solar electricity.

Advancing resistive memory to improve portable electronics

08/14/2013 

Researchers develop novel way to build resistive memory devices that could become the storage part of the next generation of smart phones and tablets.

Small, fast and not so demanding

08/14/2013 

Breakthrough in memory technologies could bring faster computing, smaller memory devices and lower power consumption.

Samsung introduces world’s first 3D V-NAND-based SSD

08/14/2013 

Samsung today introduced the first solid state drive (SSD) based on its recently released 3D V-NAND technology. Samsung announced its new SSD, designed for use in enterprise servers and data centers, during a keynote at the Flash Memory Summit 2013.

South Korea’s photoresist market set to bottom out at $220 million in 2013

08/14/2013 

Photoresists are primarily used in the electronics industry and in high demand from the semiconductor and liquid crystal display (LCD) sectors where photolithography is a main manufacturing process.

Rolith successfully demonstrates ITO-alternative technology based on rolling mask lithography

08/13/2013 

Rolith, Inc., a developer of advanced nanostructured devices, yesterday announced the successful demonstration of Transparent Metal Grid Electrode technology based on its disruptive nanolithography method (Rolling Mask Lithography – RMLTM).

Tablet and cellphone processors offset PC MPU weakness

08/13/2013 

Total microprocessor sales are forecast to rise 8 percent in 2013 and reach $61.0 billion.

Everspin raises $15M growth financing

08/12/2013 

Everspin Technologies today announced that it has closed a Series B financing, raising $15 million to accelerate growth in the enterprise storage market and support the launch of its ground-breaking Spin-Torque MRAM (ST-MRAM) products.

New insights into the polymer mystique for conducting charges

08/12/2013 

For most of us, a modern lifestyle without polymers is unthinkable…if only we knew what they were.

SK Hynix reports significant process control improvement with new metrology platform

08/12/2013 

Nanometrics Incorporated, a provider of advanced process control metrology and inspection systems, today announced that SK Hynix has reported significant process control improvement by deploying the Atlas II platform for optical critical dimension (OCD) metrology across its memory device production.

Isola introduces very low-loss materials

08/08/2013 

Isola Group S.a.r.l. today announced Astra, the company's breakthrough very low-loss dielectric constant (Dk) product for millimeter wave frequencies and beyond.

TriQuint acquires CAP Wireless

08/08/2013 

TriQuint Semiconductor, Inc., a RF solutions supplier, today announced that it has acquired CAP Wireless, Newbury Park, CA, and its patented Spatium RF power combining technology that replaces traveling wave tube amplifiers (TWTAs) in communications and defense systems.

Apple’s shift in chip manufacturing strategy boosts semiconductor foundry business

08/08/2013 

In an illustration of the massive power it wields in the electronics supply chain, Apple Inc.’s migration of the production of key semiconductors from Samsung to pure-play foundries will single-handedly boost the growth of the chip contract manufacturing market this year.

Magnetic switching simplified

08/07/2013 

An international team of researchers has described a new physical effect that could be used to develop more efficient magnetic chips for information processing.

Peregrine Semiconductor and LG team up for antenna tuning in Optimus G Pro smartphone

08/07/2013 

Peregrine Semiconductor Corporation, a fabless provider of high-performance radio frequency integrated circuits (RFICs), and LG Electronics today announced they have teamed up to develop the high-performance antenna tuning design solution in the LG Optimus G Pro smartphone that was recently introduced to the Korean market.

SSD market scores big in Q1, thanks to Ultrabooks and PC tablets

08/07/2013 

Solid-state drives (SSD) got a huge push in the first quarter from greatly expanded usage in ultrathin/Ultrabook PCs as well as in PC tablets, where shipment volume to those sectors tripled within a year’s time in a mighty display of growth,

After 43 years, DRAM market finally reaches maturity

08/06/2013 

DRAM capex as a percent of sales forecast to reach all-time low in 2013.

Micron VP to keynote at 2013 Flash Memory Summit

08/06/2013 

Ed Doller, vice president and chief memory systems architect, will deliver a keynote presentation titled "Storage Architecture for the Data Center in 2020" at Flash Memory Summit on Wednesday, August 14 at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, California.

ISSI announces 72Mb Synchronous SRAM family

08/06/2013 

Integrated Silicon Solution, Inc. today announced the sampling of its new family of 72Mb Synchronous SRAMs.

Brooks Instrument invests in California technology development center

08/06/2013 

Brooks Instrument, a provider of advanced flow, pressure, vacuum and level solutions, has made a new investment in its technology center in Irvine, California.




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