11/10/2017  U.S. semiconductor chemical suppliers lost market share to Japanese and European competitors in every major segment over the past decade, according to a new report from The Information Network.

11/10/2017  SEMI interviewed one of the four keynotes presenting on November 14 during the Opening Ceremony, Dr. Stefan Finkbeiner, CEO of Bosch Sensortec, about topics about developments and trends in IoT, Environmental Sensing, and Value Chain as well as the role of Europe.

11/10/2017  A transfer technique based on thin sacrificial layers of boron nitride could allow high-performance gallium nitride gas sensors to be grown on sapphire substrates and then transferred to metallic or flexible polymer support materials.

11/09/2017  The Global Semiconductor Alliance (GSA) today announced the 2017 award nominees for the GSA Awards Dinner Celebration.

11/09/2017  Alpha and Omega Semiconductor Limited today announced the release of AONS66916 production utilizing the latest Alpha Shield Gate Technology Generation 2 (AlphaSGT2).

11/09/2017  IC Market Drivers 2018 report ranks major end-use applications and their impact on IC market growth.

11/08/2017  As previously reported by Solid State Technology, the eBeam Initiative recently reported the results of its lithography perceptions and mask-makers' surveys. After the survey results were presented at the 2017 Photomask Technology Symposium, Aki Fujimura, CEO of D2S, the managing company sponsor of the eBeam Initiative, spoke with Solid State Technology about the survey results and current challenges in advanced lithography.

11/08/2017  There’s a strongly held belief now that the way in which semiconductors will be designed and manufactured in the future will be largely determined by a variety of rapidly growing applications, including artificial intelligence/deep learning, virtual and augmented reality, 5G, automotive, the IoT and many other uses, such as bioelectronics and drones. The key question for most semiconductor manufacturers is how can they benefit from these trends?

11/08/2017  The temperature impact on the performance of UHP pressure transducers is discussed.

11/08/2017  Artificial intelligence (AI) may be a hot topic today, but SEMI has helped to incubate Big Data and AI since its founding.

11/08/2017  2017 will be a record-breaking year. Semiconductor sales will exceed $400 billion for the first time and semiconductor equipment sales will finally shatter the historic high set in 2000. What is driving this growth?

11/08/2017  Worldwide silicon wafer area shipments increased during the third quarter 2017 when compared to second quarter 2017 area shipments according to the SEMI Silicon Manufacturers Group (SMG) in its quarterly analysis of the silicon wafer industry.

11/07/2017  Kyma Technologies, Inc. announced it has used its new K200 hydride vapor phase epitaxy (HVPE) growth tool to produce high quality 200mm diameter HVPE GaN on QST (QROMIS Substrate Technology) templates.

11/07/2017  The technologies to watch identified by TechInsights analysts at the beginning of the year have not been disappointing.

11/07/2017  SEMI announced today that the Industry Strategy Symposium (ISS) 2018, will take place January 15-18 at Half Moon Bay's Ritz-Carlton Hotel, with the theme "Smart, Intuitive & Connected: Semiconductor Devices Transforming the World."

11/07/2017  The RC delay issues started a few nodes ago, and the problems are becoming worse.

11/06/2017  MagnaChip Semiconductor Corporation announced today it now offers a 0.35 micron 700V Ultra-High Voltage process technology (UHV) that reduces mask counts, manufacturing time and cost for power-related AC-DC products.

11/06/2017  The Broadcom proposal stands whether Qualcomm's pending acquisition of NXP Semiconductors N.V. is consummated on the currently disclosed terms of $110 per NXP share or the transaction is terminated.

11/03/2017  NXP has partnered with the Chongqing Economic and Information Technology Commission and the Chongqing Laingian New Area Administrative Committee to drive more automotive industry growth with the new applications development center.

11/03/2017  Researchers at UC Berkeley and UC Riverside have developed a new, ultrafast method for electrically controlling magnetism in certain metals, a breakthrough that could lead to greatly increased performance and more energy-efficient computer memory and processing technologies