07/08/2016  3D-Micromac AG announced that its microDICE laser micromachining system has been adopted by a major industrial manufacturer for volume production of high-power diodes.

07/08/2016  Weak global economy and poor DRAM market to drag down growth this year.

07/07/2016  Lattice Semiconductor Corporation today announced that its Board of Directors has appointed Brian Beattie to the Company’s Board of Directors and Audit Committee.

07/07/2016  According to the latest market research report by Technavio, the semiconductor chip handler market is expected to grow at a CAGR of over 4% until 2020.

07/05/2016  Sales increase 0.4 percent compared to April, decrease 7.7 percent year-to-year.

07/05/2016  Plasma-Therm, a supplier of wafer process technology solutions to specialty semiconductor and nanotechnology markets, has acquired Nano Etch Systems Inc. of California, a developer of ion beam etch (IBE) and ion beam deposition (IBD) systems.

07/01/2016  The 2015 market for semiconductor silicon wafers fell 5.3% to $7.2B on a record 10.4 BSI Si shipped, according to a new report, "Silicon Wafers Market & Supply Chain 2016, a TECHCET Critical Materials Report."

06/30/2016  Van den Brink will accept the award at the annual SIA Award Dinner on Thursday, Nov. 10 in San Jose, an event that will commemorate the 25thanniversary of the Noyce Award.

06/28/2016  FormFactor, Inc. today announced that it has completed the acquisition of Beaverton, Oregon-based Cascade Microtech, Inc.

06/27/2016  Synopsys, Inc. today announced a multi-year extension of its OEM agreement with Lattice Semiconductor Corporation for Synopsys' Synplify Pro FPGA synthesis tools.

06/24/2016  Qualcomm Incorporated announced that it has filed a complaint against Meizu in the Beijing Intellectual Property Court.

06/24/2016  In the early stages of development, having more process control can help reduce both the number and duration of cycles-of-learning (the iterations required to solve a particular problem).

06/23/2016  According to the latest market research report by Technavio, the global semiconductor capital equipment market is expected to reach $47.34 billion mark by 2020.

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

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

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.

06/13/2016  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.

06/10/2016  The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) this week announced worldwide sales of semiconductors reached $25.8 billion for the month of April 2016.

06/10/2016  A forum of industry experts at SEMICON West 2016 will discuss the challenges associated with getting from node 10 -- which seems set for HVM -- to nodes 7 and 5.