01/29/2018  Worldwide shipments of devices -- PCs, tablets and mobile phones -- totaled 2.28 billion units in 2017, according to Gartner, Inc. Shipments are on course to reach 2.32 billion units in 2018, an increase of 2.1 percent.

01/29/2018  New experiments demonstrate the potential for diamond as a material for spintronics.

01/29/2018  The research team that announced the first optical rectenna in 2015 is now reporting a two-fold efficiency improvement in the devices — and a switch to air-stable diode materials. The improvements could allow the rectennas – which convert electromagnetic fields at optical frequencies directly to electrical current – to operate low-power devices such as temperature sensor

01/29/2018  SEMI, the global industry association representing the electronics manufacturing supply chain, today announced an urgent call to action to overcome the pressing semiconductor industry challenge of recruiting new talent.

01/26/2018  The worldwide race to create more, better and reliable quantum processors is progressing fast, as a team of TU Delft scientists led by Professor Vandersypen has realised yet again. In a neck-and-neck race with their competitors, they showed that quantum information of an electron spin can be transported to a photon, in a silicon quantum chip.

01/26/2018  Martin Anstice will remain Chief Executive Officer.

01/25/2018  Samsung Electronics and Apple remained the top two semiconductor chip buyers in 2017, representing 19.5 percent of the total worldwide market, according to Gartner, Inc.

01/25/2018  Semiconductor units forecast to increase 9% with IC units rising 11%, O-S-D units growing 8%.

01/25/2018  International trade is one of the best tools to spur growth and create high-skill and high-paying jobs. Over 40 million American jobs rely on trade, and this is particularly true in the semiconductor supply chain. Over the past three decades, the semiconductor industry has averaged nearly double-digit growth rates in revenue and, by 2030, the semiconductor supply chain is forecast to reach $1 trillion.

01/24/2018  2017 ended on a high note from an end market perspective.

01/24/2018  SiFive, the provider of commercial RISC-V processor IP, today announced the appointment of Sunil Shenoy as vice president of hardware engineering.

01/24/2018  The billings figure is 16.3 percent higher than the final November 2017 level of $2.05 billion, and is 27.7 percent higher than the December 2016 billings level of $1.87 billion.

01/23/2018  Micron Technology, Inc. today launched the Micron 5200 series of SATA solid state drives.

01/23/2018  Applied Materials, Inc. today announced the appointment of Scott A. McGregor to serve on its Board of Directors.

01/23/2018  The two companies will work together with an end goal of producing a working memory device that their joint customers can use to drive future memories and IoT innovations forward.

01/22/2018  Worldwide semiconductor revenue is forecast to total $451 billion in 2018, an increase of 7.5 percent from $419 billion in 2017, according to Gartner, Inc.

01/22/2018  One of the big challenges in computer architecture is integrating storage, memory and processing in one unit. This would make computers faster and more energy efficient. University of Groningen physicists have taken a big step towards this goal by combining a niobium doped strontium titanate (SrTiO3) semiconductor with ferromagnetic cobalt.

01/22/2018  Qualified workers key to Europe's competitive advantage in global supply chain.

01/22/2018  Technology enables customers to perform particle size analysis in real time.

01/19/2018  Qualcomm Incorporated today announced that the European Commission and the Korea Fair Trade Commission authorized the acquisition by Qualcomm River Holdings B.V. of NXP Semiconductors N.V.