03/23/2018  China-based companies show the largest fabless IC marketshare gain since 2010.

03/22/2018  This work explores the effect of underlying metallic alloys and the influence of Cu loss under via bottom after dry etching and wet cleaning processes. To Improve the Cu loss under via bottom, effective approaches are proposed. The modified actions for via bottom improve not only wafer yield but also reliability of the device.

03/22/2018  Synopsys, Inc. today announced it has acquired Silicon and Beyond Private Limited, a provider of high-speed SerDes technology used in data intensive applications such as machine learning, cloud computing, and networking.

03/22/2018  New technology offer cost-efficient and sustainable solution to global data storage challenge, while enabling the pivot from Big Data to Long Data and opening new realms of scientific discovery.

03/22/2018  Working up a sweat from carrying a heavy load? That is when the textile works at its best. Swedish researchers have developed a fabric that converts kinetic energy into electric power. The greater the load applied to the textile and the wetter it becomes the more electricity it generates.

03/22/2018  Magnolia Optical Technology, Inc. announced that it is working with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) under the Phase II SBIR Program for Development of High-Performance Thin-Film Solar Cells for Portable Power Applications.

03/21/2018  Bringing together a technical program that encompasses 'big integration' of a number of critical industry trends -- machine learning, IoT, artificial intelligence, wearable/implantable biomedical applications, big data, and cloud computing -- the 2018 Symposia on VLSI Technology & Circuits will showcase a convergence of technologies needed for 'smart living.'

03/21/2018  In Tokyo, Shanghai, Moscow, London, Paris or New York – wherever you are in the world –Japanese vehicles passing by on the roadways are a common sight.

03/21/2018  Use of indium gallium phosphide with I-MacEtch processing shows promise for more cost effective fabrication and increased performance in devices from photonics to telecommunications.

03/21/2018  Stiff tariffs and the dismantling of longstanding trade agreements – cornerstones of these new actions – will ripple through the semiconductor industry with particularly damaging effect.

03/20/2018  SEMICON West has opened registration for the July 10-12, 2018, exposition at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, California.

03/20/2018  CEA-Leti, a French technology research institute of the CEA and Inac, a joint fundamental research institute between the CEA and the University Grenoble Alpes, today announced a breakthrough towards large-scale fabrication of quantum bits, or qubits, the elementary bricks of future quantum processors.

03/20/2018  GLOBALFOUNDRIES today announced a new ecosystem partner program, called RFWave, designed to simplify RF design and help customers reduce time-to-market for a new era of wireless devices and networks.

03/20/2018  Following the acquisition, the new entity's extended line of leading-edge process control solutions will provide a unique and essential inspection and metrology capability to semiconductor manufacturers.

03/19/2018  Under the agreement, Alps and Everspin will mutually grant licenses to magnetoresistive-based 3D sensor patent portfolios for magnetoresistive sensor products.

03/19/2018  An unexpected phenomenon known as zero field switching (ZFS) could lead to smaller, lower-power memory and computing devices than presently possible.

03/19/2018  Some novel materials that sound too good to be true turn out to be true and good. An emergent class of semiconductors, which could affordably light up our future with nuanced colors emanating from lasers, lamps, and even window glass, could be the latest example.

03/16/2018  Browse this slideshow for a look at this year's speakers, keynotes, panel discussions, and special guests.

03/16/2018  The Trump administration issued a Presidential Order this week to block the acquisition.

03/16/2018  Synopsys, Inc. today announced it is hosting an advanced-technology panel on "EUV, High-NA, Metallurgy and FinFET++ - Where We Go from Here for Next-Generation Design" at the Synopsys Users Group (SNUG) Silicon Valley event on Thursday, March 22.