05/09/2017  Memory market surge propels SK Hynix and Micron up two spots in the top-10 ranking.

05/08/2017  SiFive, the first fabless provider of customized, open-source-enabled semiconductors, today announced it has raised $8.5 million in a Series B round led by Spark Capital with participation from Osage University Partners and existing investor Sutter Hill Ventures.

05/08/2017  Conductivity is highest-ever for thin film oxide semiconductor material.

05/08/2017  No more error-prone evaporation deposition, drop casting or printing: Scientists at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich and FSU Jena have developed organic semiconductor nanosheets, which can easily be removed from a growth substrate and placed on other substrates.

05/03/2017  Researchers at North Carolina State University have developed a new approach for manipulating the behavior of cells on semiconductor materials, using light to alter the conductivity of the material itself.

05/02/2017  A new semiconductor developed by Stanford researchers is as flexible as skin and easily degradable. It could have diverse medical and environmental applications, without adding to the mounting pile of global electronic waste.

05/02/2017  Program unveiled for 2017 Symposia on VLSI Technology & Circuits – includes short courses, focus sessions, panel discussions and demo session on "Harmonious Integration Toward Next Dimensions" theme.

05/01/2017  The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) today announced worldwide sales of semiconductors reached $30.9 billion for the month of March 2017, an increase of 18.1 percent compared to the March 2016 total of $26.2 billion and 1.6 percent more than the February 2017 total of $30.4 billion.

05/01/2017  Intel could yield the #1 position it has held since 1993.

05/01/2017  The breakthrough involves controlling energy levels between electron valleys in 2-D semiconductors.

05/01/2017  The Firefly System with Clearfind Technology helps manufacturers find defects earlier in the process – improving reliability of devices.

04/28/2017  ST-MRAM (spin-transfer magnetic RAM) is an extremely promising new technology with the potential to replace major segments of the market for flash, SRAM, and DRAM semiconductors in applications such as mobile products, automotive, IoT, and data storage.

04/28/2017  A case study is presented based on the use of high throughput experimentation (HTE) for the discovery of new memory materials.

04/28/2017  Researchers at the Institute for Molecular Science, National Institutes of Natural Sciences (Japan) have developed a method for high performance doping of organic single crystal.

04/28/2017  ASML and ZEISS today announced that both companies are filing initial legal claims against Nikon for infringement of more than 10 patents.

04/28/2017  SanDisk co-founder and former president & CEO to take the helm.

04/28/2017  MCU suppliers aligning themselves to be at the epicenter of big-growth opportunities in IoT, automotive, and other emerging systems.

04/27/2017  Immersion-based self-aligned quadruple patterning is combined with EUV lithography block patterning to achieve metal layers with pitches as small as 32nm.

04/27/2017  With its unique characteristics, FD-SOI is generating increasingly strong interest from major players in the semiconductor ecosystem for a very wide range of markets.

04/25/2017  The transaction expands Entegris' portfolio of filtration solutions for semiconductor, OLED and flat panel display applications.