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Everspin Announces 1-Gigabit MRAM

08/10/2017  Everspin Technologies, Inc. has begun sampling its new 1-Gigabit Spin Torque Magnetoresistive Random Access Memory (ST-MRAM) with lead customers.

NanoString and Lam Research announce strategic development collaboration

08/09/2017  NanoString Technologies, Inc. and Lam Research Corporation today announced a strategic collaboration to develop NanoString's proprietary Hyb & Seq next-generation sequencing platform.

Worldwide semiconductor capital spending is forecast to grow 10.2% in 2017

08/07/2017  Worldwide semiconductor capital spending is projected to increase 10.2 percent in 2017, to $77.7 billion, according to Gartner, Inc.

Mid-year global semiconductor sales up 21% compared to 2016

08/04/2017  Q2 sales are highest on record, 5.8 percent more than previous quarter, 23.7 percent higher than Q2 of last year.

Toshiba Memory's investment in production equipment for Fab 6 at Yokkaichi Operations

08/03/2017  Toshiba Corporation today announced that Toshiba Memory Corporation (TMC) will unilaterally invest in manufacturing equipment for the Fab 6 clean room at Yokkaichi Operations.

Significant mid-year revision to 2017 IC market forecast

08/02/2017  DRAM, NAND flash memory markets drive the first annual double-digit upturn since 2010.

A semiconductor that can beat the heat

07/31/2017  Berkeley Lab, UC Berkeley scientists discover unique thermoelectric properties in cesium tin iodide.

Silicon wafer shortage starts in 2018

07/31/2017  TECHCET's model shows all slack soon gone from supply-chain for both 300mm and 200mm diameter.

Enhanced vacuum security using advanced sub-fab monitoring and data analytics

07/28/2017  Sub-Fab Fault Detection and Classification (FDC) software platforms collect, integrate and analyze operational data.

North American semiconductor equipment industry posts June 2017 billings

07/26/2017  Through the first half of the year, 2017 equipment billings are 50 percent above the same period last year.

Second quarter 2017 silicon wafer shipments increase quarter-over-quarter

07/25/2017  Worldwide silicon wafer area shipments increased during the second quarter 2017 when compared to first quarter 2017 area shipments according to the SEMI Silicon Manufacturers Group (SMG) in its quarterly analysis of the silicon wafer industry.

Value of semiconductor industry M&A deals slows dramatically in 1H17

07/25/2017  Numerous smaller deals have been made but “megadeals” have yet to surface this year.

UV-C LED research company selects Veeco MOCVD system for nanowire on graphene development

07/24/2017  CrayoNano will use the system to grow semiconductor nanowires on graphene for water disinfection, air purification, food processing and life science applications.

NUS engineers achieve significant breakthrough in spin wave-based information processing technology

07/24/2017  Novel method of propagating spin waves could pave the way for high-speed, miniaturized data processing devices.

2017 IEEE IEDM to showcase technology and device breakthroughs in logic, memory, bioelectronics, silicon photonics

07/20/2017  Advances in semiconductor and related devices are driving significant progress in our increasingly digital world, and the place to learn about cutting-edge research in the field is the annual IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM), to be held December 2-6, 2017 at the Hilton San Francisco Union Square hotel.

SUNY Poly awarded $720,000 by U.S. Department of Energy for next-generation semiconductor research

07/20/2017  Grant from Energy Department's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy supports further development of cutting-edge gallium nitride-based power electronics at SUNY Poly.

China will dominate the global semiconductor market in the next 5 years

07/19/2017  The semiconductor market in China continues to grow at a staggering speed. The current backbone of the electronics and telecom industry in China, semiconductor companies in China are driving innovation with new trends like spending on wafer fab equipment.

AIM Photonics welcomes Mentor as newest Tier 1 member

07/18/2017  The American Institute for Manufacturing Integrated Photonics (AIM Photonics) announced Mentor, a Siemens Business and global EDA leader, as the newest Tier 1 member of AIM Photonics.

Former Micron CEO Mark Durcan to receive semiconductor industry's top honor

07/18/2017  The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) announced Mark Durcan, former CEO of Micron Technology, Inc., and a longtime leader in advancing semiconductor technology, has been named the 2017 recipient of SIA's highest honor, the Robert N. Noyce Award.

Professors from Oregon State University, University of Texas at Austin to be honored for excellence in semiconductor research

07/18/2017  The Semiconductor Industry Association today announced the winners of its 2017 University Research Award.




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