01/24/2013  Innovations in mobile computing and communications will continue to be a driving factor for the semiconductor equipment industry.

01/24/2013  For most of the past 15 years, the industry has displayed a fairly predictable pattern of fab equipment spending, characterized generally by two years of decline followed by two years of positive growth.

01/24/2013  We approach 2014 with a combination of positive policy, financial, and economic forces that will push world growth up to a +3% range.

01/24/2013  In 2013, the IC industry emerged from a difficult 5-year period of minimal growth and started on its next cyclical upturn, a welcome piece of news.

01/23/2013 

The market for MEMS microphones has nearly quintupled in just the past three years, topping a projected 2 billion shipments in 2012, thanks mainly for capabilities the technology enables in high-end smartphones, according to IHS iSuppli.

01/18/2013 

Novati Technologies Inc. has licensed Ziptronix's direct bonding technologies, "direct bond interconnect" (DBI) and "direct oxide bonding (ZiBond), to offer 3D stacking services and test to customers.

01/18/2013 

Spending on LED fab manufacturing equipment will decline 9.2% in 2013 as the industry faces weak long-term demand and consolidates manufacturing capacity.

01/17/2013 

In the ranks of top foundries, there's a new Number Three in town: Samsung, which climbed up the ranks again in 2012 thanks to its ubiquity in smart phone technology, according to updated rankings by IC Insights.

01/17/2013 

IBM Researchers won the prestigious Feynman prize given by the Foresight Group. The team was the first to produce images detailed enough to identify the structure of individual molecules, as well as metal-molecule complexes.

01/17/2013 

Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) announced that $194 million will be dedicated during the next five years to STARnet, which encompasses six new university microelectronics research centers.

01/15/2013 

The rise in mobile computing, changes to the fabless-foundry model, uncertainties in technical innovation, and global macroeconomic trends are becoming the dominant forces in 2013 and beyond, according to industry leaders speaking at this week's SEMI Industry Strategy Symposium (ISS).

01/11/2013 

Among the usual confluences of useful and cool gadgets (not to mention bizarre) at this week's annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, two types of devices with new formfactors aimed to rethink the PC model.

01/11/2013 

GlobalFoundries says it plans to build a $2 billion "Technology Development Center" R&D facility at its Fab 8 campus in Saratoga County, NY, for semiconductor technology development and manufacturing:  EUV lithography photomasks to new interconnect and packaging technologies enabling 3D chip stacking, "and everything in between."

01/10/2013 

Fabless IC suppliers saw sales rise 6% in 2012, again outperforming IDMs and the total IC market, and by 2017 fabless ICs will make up a full third of the overall market, says IC Insights.

01/09/2013 

SEMI's HB-LED Standards Committee has approved its first standard, specifying sapphire wafers used in making high-brightness light-emitting diode (HB-LED) devices.

01/08/2013 

Several innovations in computational lithography have been developed in order to squeeze every possible process margin out of the lithography/patterning process.  In this blog, Gandharv Bhatara of Mentor Graphicsl talks about two specific advances that are currently in deployment at 20nm.

01/08/2013 

Klaus Schuegraf, former exec at Applied Materials responsible for the company's semiconductor products technology roadmap, will now lead Cymer's EUV engineering and development programs.

01/07/2013 

As the annual Consumer Electronics Show and hordes of techie enthusiasts descends over Las Vegas this week, NPD DisplaySearch revisits the battle between two display technologies -- 4K × 2K vs. OLEDs.

01/04/2013 

We are in an age where chemistry is center stage in the race to advance Moore’s Law and More Than Moore.

01/04/2013 

The International Data Corporation is forecasting that semiconductor revenues worldwide will improve by 4.9% to $319 billion in 2013 and log a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 4.1% from 2011-2016.