05/14/2018  Reaching their highest recorded quarterly level ever, worldwide silicon wafer area shipments jumped to 3,084 million square inches during the first quarter 2018, a 3.6 percent increase over fourth quarter 2017 area shipments of 2,977 million square inches and a 7.9 percent rise over first quarter 2017 shipments.

05/11/2018  Moore's Law extended with the use of light.

05/10/2018  ORS Labs, Inc., the parent company of Oneida Research Services, Inc. (ORS), announces the acquisition of Silicon Cert Laboratories in Reading, Pennsylvania.

05/10/2018  The growth of China’s semiconductor industry outstripped sector expansion in many other regions in 2017 thanks in part to heavy government investments and supportive state policies.

05/10/2018  ON Semiconductor Corporation announced the expansion of their manufacturing facility in Rochester, New York.

05/10/2018  Wafering technology innovations covered by additional patents aim to further reduce costs for manufacturers of silicon carbide-based ICs and other devices.

05/10/2018  Adesto Technologies, a provider of innovative application-specific semiconductors for the IoT era, announced it has acquired Dublin-based S3 Semiconductors.

05/09/2018  TowerJazz, the global specialty foundry leader, and Newsight Imaging, today announced production of Newsight's advanced CMOS image sensor (CIS) chips and camera modules, customized for very high volume LiDAR and machine vision markets, combining sensors, digital algorithms and pixel array on the same chip.

05/09/2018  Air Liquide Advanced Materials, Inc. (ALAM) has been chosen by the New Jersey chapter of the Association for Corporate Growth as an honoree for the 2018 Corporate Growth Awards.

05/08/2018  UnitySC, a developer of advanced inspection and metrology solutions, today announced the opening of its Asia subsidiary, Unity Semiconductor Limited Company (UnitySC Asia).

05/08/2018  Embedded imaging applications in cars, security, machine vision, medical, virtual reality, and other new uses will offset slow growth in camera phones, says new report.

05/07/2018  Gallium Nitride (GaN) has the promise of gaining market share in 2018 and is forecast to be a significant force over the next few years.

05/07/2018  Analog Devices, Inc. awarded Bob Reay, Leonard Shtargot, Jesper Steensgaard, and Sam Zhang the title of Analog Devices Fellow.

05/07/2018  Hematene joins parade of new 2D materials Rice University-led team extracts 3-atom-thick sheets from common iron oxide.

05/04/2018  A switching element made of Cr2O3 may yield smaller, more energy-efficient memory for computers and flash drives.

05/04/2018  The 2018 Critical Materials Council (CMC) Conference -- held April 26-27 at the Hilton Chandler in Arizona -- was a great gathering with presentations from Everspin, Intel, GlobalFoundries, and NXP discussing current fab challenges, and the relationships to near-term materials solutions.

05/04/2018  Results on unique combination of surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy and nanopore fluidics published in Nature Communications.

05/03/2018  Osram has added to its expertise in semiconductor-based optical security technology by acquiring US-based Vixar Inc.

05/03/2018  First demonstration of self-assembling and self-disassembling silicon microparticles could form the basis for designing artificial muscles and reconfigurable computer systems.

05/03/2018  A simple method that uses hydrogen chloride can better control the crystal structure of a common semiconductor and shows promise for novel high-powered electronic applications.