11/30/2016  David Anderson joins as SEMI Americas President.

11/30/2016  New report also projects good IC sales increases in medical electronics, digital TVs, and servers.

11/29/2016  SiFive, the first fabless provider of customized, open-source-enabled semiconductors, today announced the availability of its Freedom Everywhere 310 (FE310) system on a chip (SoC).

11/28/2016  The book-to bill ratio for October dropped below parity for the first time in 11 months, even though bookings and billings activity remains at elevated levels relative to last year.

11/21/2016  Microsemi Corporation (Nasdaq: MSCC) announced it is the first field programmable gate array (FPGA) provider to offer a comprehensive software tool chain and intellectual property (IP) core for RISC-V designs.

11/17/2016  Electronics manufacturing executives will examine growth prospects, global industry developments and technology strategy at the SEMI Industry Strategy Symposium (ISS) 2017 to be held January 8-11 at the Ritz-Carlton, Half Moon Bay.

11/17/2016  Qualcomm Incorporated today announced that its subsidiary, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., and Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., have extended their decade-long strategic foundry collaboration to manufacture Qualcomm Technologies' latest Snapdragon premium processor, Qualcomm Snapdragon 835, with Samsung's 10nm FinFET process technology.

11/16/2016  The fab, which was completed in record time, realized volume production for customer products merely 20 months after groundbreaking in March of 2015.

11/14/2016  Siemens and Mentor Graphics today announced that they have entered into a merger agreement under which Siemens will acquire Mentor for an enterprise value of $4.5 billion.

11/09/2016  IC Market Drivers 2017 analyzes end-use applications and impact on IC market growth.

11/09/2016  Worldwide silicon wafer area shipments increased during the third quarter 2016 when compared to second quarter 2016 area shipments according to the SEMI Silicon Manufacturers Group (SMG) in its quarterly analysis of the silicon wafer industry.

11/09/2016  Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE together with the Austrian company EV Group (EVG) have successfully manufactured a silicon-based multi-junction solar cell with two contacts and an efficiency exceeding the theoretical limit of silicon solar cells.

11/08/2016  Silicon photonic technologies have reached the tipping point that precedes massive growth.

11/08/2016  Tthe President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) announced the formation of a new working group focused on strengthening the U.S. semiconductor industry in ways that benefit the nation’s economic and security interests.

11/07/2016  SunEdison Semiconductor Limited announced today that it has received notice that the Investment Committee of the Ministry of the Economic Affairs of the Republic of China has approved the proposed acquisition of SunEdison Semiconductor by GlobalWafers Co., Ltd.

11/07/2016  Astronics Corporation (NASDAQ:ATRO), through its wholly-owned subsidiary Astronics Test Systems, introduced its new breakthrough System-Level Test (SLT) platform that is expected to revolutionize the testing of high volume integrated semiconductor devices.

11/04/2016  Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation announces the official launch of a 12-inch integrated circuit (IC) production line at SMIC's Shenzhen facility. It will be the very first 12-inch fab in South China.

11/03/2016  The new foundry process offerings as well as EUV-enabled 7nm wafer are presented at the Samsung Foundry Forum.

11/03/2016  The Global Semiconductor Alliance (GSA) announced the 2016 award nominees for the GSA Awards Dinner Celebration.

11/02/2016  Qualcomm's proposed acquisition of NXP Semiconductors marks the latest deal in a wave of industry consolidation that includes increasingly expensive transactions with greater focus on expanding scope rather than economies of scale.