06/12/2017  Cypress Semiconductor Corporation announced that Executive Chairman Ray Bingham has tendered his resignation as Executive Chairman and is stepping down from the Board of Directors.

06/09/2017  A research team led by Iowa State University's Zhe Fei has made the first images of half-light, half-matter quasiparticles called exciton-polaritons. The discovery could be an early step to developing nanophotonic circuits that are up to 1 million times faster than current electrical circuits.

06/08/2017  Total IoT forecast scaled back mostly because of lower revenue projections for connected cities.

06/07/2017  Double-digit annual growth projected for 2017.

06/06/2017  New program aims to progress beyond traditional scaling, catalyze next-generation semiconductor technologies.

06/06/2017  The quarter ended very strong, with March billings reaching $5.6 billion, an all-time monthly record.

06/06/2017  In 2017, over US$49 billion will be spent on equipment alone, a record for the semiconductor industry. Spending on new fab construction is projected to reach over $8 billion, the second largest year on record.

06/01/2017  Top spenders expected to represent 83% of total semiconductor industry spending this year.

06/01/2017  SEMI’s year-to-date worldwide semiconductor equipment billings year-to-date through March show a 59.6 percent gain to the same period last year.

05/31/2017  EV Group (EVG) announced that it is expanding production capacity at its corporate headquarters in St. Florian am Inn, Austria.

05/25/2017  OEM Group has launched the P5000:CS automated single wafer cluster tool for the compound semiconductor market.

05/23/2017  The 63rd annual IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM), to be held at the Hilton San Francisco Union Square hotel December 2-6, 2017, has issued a Call for Papers seeking the world's best original work in all areas of microelectronics research and development.

05/23/2017  North America-based manufacturers of semiconductor equipment posted $2.17 billion in billings worldwide in April 2017 (three-month average basis), according to the April Equipment Market Data Subscription (EMDS) Billings Report published today by SEMI.

05/22/2017  SEMI today announced its plans to deliver specialized programs at SEMICON West 2017 (July 11-13 at Moscone Center in San Francisco, Calif.) in partnership with IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers), Society of Automotive Engineers International (SAE), and imec.

05/22/2017  As China embarks on the Made in China 2025 plan with electronics and semiconductor technology as one of the Top 10 focus areas, China's semiconductor industry has an unprecedented growth opportunity.

05/15/2017  Lam Research today announced that Dr. Young Bum Koh has joined the company's board of directors effective as of May 10, 2017.

05/15/2017  Worldwide semiconductor revenue totaled $343.5 billion in 2016, a 2.6 percent increase from 2015 revenue of $334.9 billion, according to final results by Gartner, Inc.

05/15/2017  ON Semiconductor Corporation announced that it is has been named the winner of the Gold Stevie Award for Large Manufacturing Company of the Year in The 15th Annual American Business Awards (ABAs).

05/12/2017  As computer chips become smaller, faster and more powerful, their insulating layers must also be much more robust -- currently a limiting factor for semiconductor technology. A collaborative University of Kentucky-Texas A&M University research team says this new phase of hafnia is an order of magnitude better at withstanding applied fields.

05/11/2017  Soitec, a designer and manufacturer of semiconductor materials for the electronics industry, has appointed Stephen Lin to the newly created position of vice president of strategic business development in China, a key region for the company's future growth plans.