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Lattice Semiconductor appoints Glenn O'Rourke as Corporate VP, Global Operations

12/11/2018  Lattice Semiconductor Corporation announced the appointment of Glenn O’Rourke as the Company’s Corporate Vice President, Global Operations, effective immediately.

HEIDENHAIN opens new office on west coast

12/11/2018  As the Silicon Valley in California and the West Coast continue to be the hub of the semiconductor manufacturing in the U.S., HEIDENHAIN has expanded its motion systems support by establishing an ETEL facility in Fremont, CA.

Rudolph’s NovusEdge selected by wafer manufacturers for bare wafer edge and backside inspection

12/11/2018  Rudolph Technologies, Inc. today announced the receipt of over $12M in new orders for its recently-released NovusEdge system for edge and backside inspection on bare silicon wafers.

SEMICON Japan 2018 opens tomorrow focusing on SMART applications

12/11/2018  SEMICON Japan 2018, the largest and most influential event for the electronics manufacturing supply chain in Japan with more than 70,000 attendees expected, opens tomorrow at Tokyo Big Sight.

GOWIN Semiconductor opens European office

12/11/2018  GOWIN Semiconductor Corp., an innovator of programmable logic devices, announces the expansion of its global sales operations into the EMEA region.

Emerging NVM : PCM finally takes off in stand-alone applications

12/10/2018  Ever-growing data generation driven by mobile devices, the cloud, the IoT , and big data, as well as novel AI applications, all part of the megatrends, requires continuous advancements in memory technologies.

Synopsys and imec demonstrate accelerated modeling of complementary FET (CFET) technology

12/10/2018  Synopsys, Inc. announced today another milestone in its longstanding partnership with imec.

Topological matters: Toward a new kind of transistor

12/10/2018  X-ray experiments at Berkeley Lab provide first demonstration of room temperature switching in ultrathin material that could serve as a 'topological transistor'.

Microtronic announces new informational tech bulletin series on optimizing semiconductor macro defect wafer inspection

12/07/2018  Microtronic, Inc., a maker of high-speed full-wafer semiconductor macro defect inspection systems, wants to shed new light on a topic that is frequently misunderstood in the industry: macro vs. micro inspection.

Global Semiconductor Alliance announces 2018 GSA Award recipients

12/07/2018  The Global Semiconductor Alliance (GSA) is proud to announce the award recipients honored at the 2018 GSA Awards Dinner Celebration that took place last evening in Santa Clara, California.

Iron-rich lamellae in the semiconductor

12/07/2018  HZDR researchers produce unusual crystal structure.

Global semiconductor sales increase 12.7% year-to-year in October

12/06/2018  The global semiconductor industry posted solid year-to-year growth in October and is on pace for its highest-ever annual sales in 2018, but growth has moderated in recent months.

Crystal clear: Understanding magnetism changes caused by crystal lattice expansion

12/06/2018  An international team including researchers from Osaka University reports the control of the complex magnetic ground states in a simple cubic crystal through careful selection of ions of different size.

Lam Research announces Martin Anstice resigns as CEO

12/06/2018  Tim Archer appointed as president and CEO.

SEMI Industry Strategy Symposium leads microelectronics into new era

12/06/2018  SEMI ISS 2019 kicks off Technology Leadership Series of the Americas.

Artificial synapses made from nanowires

12/05/2018  Scientists from Jülich together with colleagues from Aachen and Turin have produced a memristive element made from nanowires that functions in much the same way as a biological nerve cell.

SEMI launches new semiconductor manufacturing workforce development campaign

12/05/2018  The semiconductor manufacturing industry is fighting to attract, educate, and retain the necessary talent for its continued growth.

CEA-Leti develops circuits for neuromorphic processors that replace CMOS transistor-based TCAM memory with RRAM-based TCAM memory

12/05/2018  Leti, a research institute at CEA Tech, has proven that RRAM-based ternary-content addressable memory (TCAM) circuits, featuring the most compact structure developed to date, can meet the performance and reliability requirements of multicore neuromorphic processors.

A new light on significantly faster computer memory devices

12/04/2018  A team of scientists from Arizona State University's School of Molecular Sciences and Germany have published in Science Advances online today an explanation of how a particular phase-change memory (PCM) material can work one thousand times faster than current flash computer memory, while being significantly more durable with respect to the number of daily read-writes.

SEMI welcomes efforts to reduce U.S.-China trade tensions

12/04/2018  The U.S. plans to delay tariff increases on $200 billion worth of Chinese imports, China has vowed to increase U.S. market access, and both parties are planning talks over the course of 90 days to address current frictions.




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Environment, Safety & Health

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The semiconductor industry is an acknowledged global leader in promoting environmental sustainability in the design, manufacture, and use of its products, as well as the health and safety of its operations and impacts on workers in semiconductor facilities (fabs). We will examine trends and concerns related to emissions, chemical use, energy consumption and worker safety and health.

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Wafer Processing

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As the industry moves to 10nm and 7nm nodes, advances in wafer processing – etch, deposition, planarization, implant, cleaning, annealing, epitaxy among others – will be required. Manufacturers are looking for new solutions for sustained strain engineering, FinFETs, FDSOI and multi-gate technologies, 3D NAND, and high mobility transistors.

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