06/21/2016  The LSA101 tool will be used to support the foundry's 28nm and 40nm production efforts, and Ultratech expects to ship the system in the third quarter of 2016.

06/21/2016  EV Group (EVG) today announced that, for the fourth successive year, it has earned all three awards resulting from VLSIresearch Inc.'s annual Customer Satisfaction Survey.

06/21/2016  ICFO researchers report on low-temperature, solution-processed, environmentally friendly inorganic solar cells made with Earth-abundant materials capable of operating with a power conversion of 6.3 percent.

06/21/2016  Samco, a Japan-based semiconductor processing equipment manufacturer, held a completion ceremony for its second production center on June 17.

06/21/2016  Do you really know how good your UHP pressure transducers are based on the manufacturer-provided datasheet as end users?

06/21/2016  Papers that address the theme "Inflections for a Smart Society" are highlighted.

06/21/2016  I never thought it would happen, but it’s officially the end of the road for The International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductor (ITRS).

06/17/2016  Dialog Semiconductor plc, a provider of highly integrated power management, AC/DC power conversion, solid state lighting (SSL) and Bluetooth low energy technology, today announced the appointment of Nick Jeffery to the company's Board of Directors.

06/17/2016  Realizing compact, low-cost, high-speed radio communication systems for the IoT age.

06/17/2016  Utah engineer discovers light can stamp out defects in semiconductors for better solar panels and LED bulbs.

06/17/2016  Leti, an institute of CEA Tech, said today its teams have demonstrated how Fully Depleted Silicon on Insulator (FDSOI) technology can be scaled downwards and how the experience in thin-film engineering built on FDSOI development can be harnessed for innovative architectures and computing paradigms.

06/17/2016  North America-based manufacturers of semiconductor equipment posted $1.75 billion in orders worldwide in May 2016 (three-month average basis) and a book-to-bill ratio of 1.09.

06/16/2016  Today, at the 2016 Symposia on VLSI Technology & Circuits, nano-electronics research center imec presented gate-all-around (GAA) n- and p-MOSFET devices made of vertically stacked horizontal silicon (Si) nanowires (NWs) with a diameter of only 8nm.

06/16/2016  FEI announced today the release of three new tools for process control and defect/failure analysis in advanced semiconductor manufacturing.

06/16/2016  The new GAA-NWFET is a promising candidate for advanced logic & analog/RF applications, and scaled SRAM cells.

06/15/2016  Leti, an institute of CEA Tech, is hosting a one-day conference covering "System Reliability & Security in a Connected World" in Lyon, France, on June 23.

06/14/2016  During the Tuesday morning sessions, ConFab attendees heard from speakers from Mentor Graphics, Intel, Infineon Technologies, Quantum Clean, and Edwards.

06/14/2016  Gartner, Inc. said global smartphone sales will continue to slow and will no longer grow in double digits.

06/13/2016  The changing market for ICs means the end of business as usual for the greater semiconductor supply chain. Smarter use of data analytics looks like a key strategy to get new products more quickly into high yield production at improved margins.

06/13/2016  The ConFab 2016 kicked off this morning with speakers from GlobalFoundries, Silicon Catalyst, imec, TechInsights, CEA Leti, and New York Empire State Development.