01/18/2018  Numerous smaller deals were made but "megadeals" were scarce last year.

01/17/2018  2017 proved to be record-setting year for the semiconductor industry. According to World Semiconductor Trade Statistics (WSTS), worldwide semiconductor market will have grown 20 percent, exceeding $400 billion for the first time.

01/10/2018  These were key highlights from a SEMI Member Forum in December that brought together industry representatives and students in Dresden to weigh in on job-skills challenges facing the electronics manufacturers and solutions for the industry to consider.

01/04/2018  Two Chinese companies -- HiSilicon and Unigroup -- are among the top 10 fabless IC sales leaders.

12/22/2017  The SEMI European 3D Summit will make its Dresden, Germany, debut 22-24 January, 2018, featuring a broader scope of 3D topics driving innovation and business opportunities in the 3D market.

12/19/2017  Renesas Electronics Corporation today announced the integration of Intersil Corporation as a legal entity and a new branding policy following the acquisition of Intersil on February 24, 2017.

12/15/2017  One of the world's largest independent MEMS foundries ready to manufacture MEMS and image sensor products utilizing Invensas wafer bonding and 3D interconnect technology.

12/05/2017  The hows and whys of resin bleed-out (RBO) are discussed, as well as the impact it makes and how to control it.

11/30/2017  The semiconductor industry continued its upward trend in the third quarter of 2017, notching 12 percent sequential growth with strength across all application markets, according to IHS Markit.

11/17/2017  Cadence Design Systems, Inc. today announced that Anirudh Devgan, executive vice president and general manager of the Digital & Signoff Group and the System & Verification Group, has been appointed president of Cadence, effective immediately.

11/17/2017  Crosstalk and noise can become a major source of reliability problems of CNT based VLSI interconnects in the near future.

11/16/2017  SkyWater Technology Foundry announces that it has been assigned the Specialty Foundry customer relationships from Cypress Semiconductor Corporation.

11/15/2017  The company’s $26 billion in 2017 outlays expected to be more than Intel and TSMC combined.

11/14/2017  Semiconductor industry back on track for growth in Europe -- major new investments.

11/13/2017  New pitch record in copper hybrid bonding with outstanding wafer-to-wafer overlay accuracy represents a breakthrough in enabling 3D high-density IC applications.

11/08/2017  A*STAR’s Institute of Microelectronics (IME) has established a development line to accelerate the development of fan-out wafer level packaging (FOWLP) capabilities for next-generation Internet of Things (IoT) technologies.

11/08/2017  Earlier this year, DARPA's Microsystems Technology Office (MTO) announced a new Electronics Resurgence Initiative (ERI) "to open pathways for far-reaching improvements in electronics performance well beyond the limits of traditional scaling."

11/08/2017  There’s a strongly held belief now that the way in which semiconductors will be designed and manufactured in the future will be largely determined by a variety of rapidly growing applications, including artificial intelligence/deep learning, virtual and augmented reality, 5G, automotive, the IoT and many other uses, such as bioelectronics and drones. The key question for most semiconductor manufacturers is how can they benefit from these trends?

11/08/2017  Artificial intelligence (AI) may be a hot topic today, but SEMI has helped to incubate Big Data and AI since its founding.

11/07/2017  The technologies to watch identified by TechInsights analysts at the beginning of the year have not been disappointing.