04/17/2017  Investor of the Year, Chrysalix Venture Capital selected over 11,000 nominees Cycle Capital Management named Canada's 2nd most active VC in 2016.

04/14/2017  Worldwide semiconductor revenue is forecast to total $386 billion in 2017, an increase of 12.3 percent from 2016, according to Gartner, Inc.

04/14/2017  Axcelis Technologies, Inc. announced today that it has received multiple orders for the Purion H high current, Purion XE high energy, and Purion EXE extended high energy system from several leading chip manufacturers in the Asia Pacific region.

04/14/2017  Physicists achieved a robust and reliable magnetization switching process by domain wall displacement without any applied fields. The effect is observed in tiny asymmetric permalloy rings and may pave the way to extremely efficient new memory devices.

04/14/2017  DDR4 and DDR3 forecast to represent 97% of sizzling 2017 DRAM market.

04/13/2017  Kulicke & Soffa Industries, Inc. announced today the opening of its latest Process and Applications laboratory at the K&S Netherlands facility.

04/13/2017  The Department of Mechanical Engineering of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) has developed a novel technology of embedding highly conductive nanostructure into semiconductor nanofiber.

04/13/2017  A new method to improve semiconductor fiber optics may lead to a material structure that might one day revolutionize the global transmission of data, according to an interdisciplinary team of researchers.

04/12/2017  Despite the many advances in portable electronic devices, one thing remains constant: the need to plug them into a wall socket to recharge. Now researchers, reporting in the journal ACS Nano, have developed a light-weight, paper-based device inspired by the Chinese and Japanese arts of paper-cutting that can harvest and store energy from body movements.

04/12/2017  The factors that are driving the growth of this market include the growth in the consumer electronics market, low wafer and gate cost, low operating voltage, and miniaturization of semiconductor devices.

04/12/2017  Microprocessors based on atomically thin materials hold the promise of the evolution of traditional processors as well as new applications in the field of flexible electronics.

04/11/2017  Silicon Integration Initiative, Inc. (Si2), a integrated circuit research and development joint venture, has contributed new power modeling technology to the IEEE P2416 System Level Power Model Working Group.

04/11/2017  New class of semiconductor materials can be used as light absorber in solar cells.

04/10/2017  NXP Semiconductors N.V. today announced a new laterally diffused metal oxide semiconductor (LDMOS) technology for RF power transistors designed for operation up to 65 volts (V).

04/10/2017  New IT-EMCCD image sensors combine improved low-light and NIR sensitivity with simplified integration for camera manufacturers.

04/10/2017  MagnaChip Semiconductor Corporation announced today that it will host its Annual U.S. Foundry Technology Symposium at Hilton Santa Clara, California, on June 7th, 2017.

04/10/2017  A research collaboration in Germany develops a prototype for a spin-wave majority logic gate that uses wave interference for information processing.

04/10/2017  SEMI today announced that the worldwide semiconductor photomask market was $3.32 billion in 2016 and is forecasted to reach $3.57 billion in 2018.

04/07/2017  Analogix Semiconductor, Inc. and Beijing Shanhai Capital Management Co, Ltd. today jointly announced the completion of the approximately $500 million acquisition of Analogix Semiconductor.

04/07/2017  In 2016, the market posted a year-end growth rate of 2 percent with chip growth seen across multiple market segments. Global revenue came in at $352.4 billion, up from $345.6 billion in 2015.