08/02/2016  Ultratech, Inc. today announced that it has received an 'Outstanding Supplier Award' from SJ Semiconductor Corp.

08/01/2016  OnChip’s wafer foundry offers Thin Film, CMOS, and BiPolar processes and has produced more than 250 different high-volume products under the OnChip brand as well as for other companies globally.

08/01/2016  Using inert boron nitride instead of silica creates precise zigzag edges in monolayer graphene.

07/29/2016  Analog Devices, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADI) and Linear Technology Corporation (NASDAQ: LLTC) this week announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Analog Devices will acquire Linear Technology in a cash and stock transaction that values the combined enterprise at approximately $30 billion.

07/29/2016  Physicists use supercomputers to find a way of making 'imitation graphene' from salt.

07/29/2016  The optics advancement may solve an approaching data bottleneck by helping to boost computing power and information transfer rates tenfold.

07/28/2016  Busch, LLC this week announced plans to build a new 44,000 sq. ft. building in Austin, Texas.

07/28/2016  The 2016 global semiconductor market is forecast to decrease by 2.4 percent from the previous year according to the World Semiconductor Trade Statistics (WSTS).

07/28/2016  SJ Semiconductor Corp. and Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. jointly announced that SJSemi has begun mass production of 14nm wafer bumping for Qualcomm Technologies.

07/27/2016  Over the past 20 years, China has become increasingly frustrated over the gap between its IC imports and indigenous IC production

07/27/2016  Worldwide silicon wafer area shipments increased during the second quarter 2016 when compared to first quarter 2016 area shipments according to the SEMI Silicon Manufacturers Group (SMG) in its quarterly analysis of the silicon wafer industry.

07/26/2016  University of Illinois researchers have developed a way to etch very tall, narrow finFETs, a type of transistor that forms a tall semiconductor "fin" for the current to travel over. The etching technique addresses many problems in trying to create 3-D devices, typically done now by stacking layers or carving out structures from a thicker semiconductor wafer.

07/26/2016  Peregrine Semiconductor Corp. today announced the promotion of Takaki Murata to vice president and general manager of the high performance analog (HPA) business unit.

07/22/2016  Worldwide semiconductor capital spending is projected to decline 0.7 percent in 2016, to $64.3 billion, according to Gartner, Inc. This is up from the estimated 2 percent decline in Gartner's previous quarterly forecast.

07/22/2016  Today SEMI announced registration opened for Europe's largest electronics manufacturing exhibition, SEMICON Europa (25-26 October) in Grenoble.

07/22/2016  Billings activity for equipment companies based in North America are at their highest level since February 2011.

07/21/2016  Paper-submission deadline is August 10 this year; Supplier exhibition to be held in conjunction with technical program.

07/21/2016  Final installment of biannual report outlines short-term and long-term challenges and opportunities facing semiconductor technology.

07/19/2016  With an eye to the next generation of tech gadgetry, a team of physicists at The University of Texas at Austin has had the first-ever glimpse into what happens inside an atomically thin semiconductor device.

07/19/2016  The semiconductor industry is moving quickly to adopt a variety of new materials in an effort to increase chip performance.