07/09/2018  New Sandia solid-state silicon device may one day power space missions.

07/09/2018  Smart technologies take center stage tomorrow as SEMICON West, the flagship U.S. event for connecting the electronics manufacturing supply chain, opens for three days of insights into leading technologies and applications that will power future industry expansion.

07/09/2018  Releasing its Mid-Year Forecast at the annual SEMICON West exposition, SEMI, the global industry association representing the electronics manufacturing supply chain, today reported that worldwide sales of new semiconductor manufacturing equipment are projected to increase 10.8 percent to $62.7 billion in 2018, exceeding the historic high of $56.6 billion set last year.

07/06/2018  Global sales in May were 3 percent higher than the April 2018 total of $37.6 billion.

07/06/2018  Researchers at the University of Texas at Dallas and their collaborators have created and characterized tiny crystals of boron arsenide.

07/06/2018  White House-led panel to address U.S. goal to lead in development of next-generation microelectronics.

07/05/2018  Research could lead to longer talk time and higher data rates in 5G devices.

07/05/2018  The SiC power market is now on the road, asserts Yole Développement (Yole). Therefore, since 2017, the market research and strategy consulting company identified more than 20 strategic announcements, showing the dynamism of this market and attractiveness of the technology.

07/05/2018  Ideal for industrial applications that demand high-accuracy sensing, including sonar and optical sensors.

07/05/2018  Extracting information quickly from quantum states is necessary for future quantum processors and super-sensitive detectors in existing technologies.

07/03/2018  Extracting information quickly from quantum states is necessary for future quantum processors and super-sensitive detectors in existing technologies.

07/03/2018  A Tokyo Institute of Technology research team has shown copper nitride acts as an n-type semiconductor, with p-type conduction provided by fluorine doping, utilizing a unique nitriding technique applicable for mass production and a computational search for appropriate doping elements, as well as atomically resolved microscopy and electronic structure analysis using synchrotron radiation.

07/03/2018  EV Group (EVG), a supplier of wafer bonding and lithography equipment for the MEMS, nanotechnology and semiconductor markets, today unveiled the new SmartView NT3 aligner.

07/02/2018  Samsung Electronics continued to lead the semiconductor market, followed by Intel and SK Hynix.

07/02/2018  Reference flow enables systems and semiconductor companies to accelerate delivery of 7nm LPP process designs.

07/02/2018  Alta Devices has today announced that its most recent single junction solar cell has been certified by NREL (National Renewable Energy Laboratory) as being 28.9% efficient.

07/02/2018  For medtech applications to flourish, sensors need a supporting infrastructure that translates the data they harvest into actionable insights, says Qualcomm Life director of business development Gene Dantsker, who will speak about the future of digital healthcare in the Medtech program at SEMICON West.

06/29/2018  Edmund Optics, a supplier of optical components, has ordered the SPECTOR Ion Beam Sputtering System from Veeco Instruments Inc.

06/29/2018  New metrology and inspection technologies and new analysis approaches made possible by improving compute technology offer solutions to finding the increasingly subtle variations in materials and subsystems that meet specifications but still cause defects on the wafer. More collaboration across the supply chain is helping too.  SEMICON West programs on materials and subsystems will address these issues.   

06/29/2018  Fujitsu Semiconductor Limited and United Microelectronics Corporation, a global semiconductor foundry, today announced that UMC will acquire all of the shares of Mie Fujitsu Semiconductor Limited (MIFS), a 300mm wafer foundry joint venture between both companies.