12/07/2015  A new transistor developed by UC Santa Barbara engineers overcomes one of the fundamental limitations of conventional transistors and reduces power dissipation by over 90 percent.

12/07/2015  Market projected to grow by 0.2 percent in 2015, 1.4 percent in 2016, and 3.1 percent in 2017.

12/07/2015  Kicking off IEDM, imec and Coventor are expanding their existing joint development project to explore process variation issues in 7nm chip technology.

12/04/2015  National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) researchers are seeing the light, but in an altogether different way. And how they are doing it just might be the semiconductor industry's ticket for extending its use of optical microscopes to measure computer chip features that are approaching 10 nanometers, tiny fractions of the wavelength of light.

12/04/2015  The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) today announced the SIA Board of Directors has elected Dr. Necip Sayiner, President, CEO and Director of Intersil, as its 2016 Chair and Tunç Doluca, President and CEO of Maxim Integrated, as its 2016 Vice Chair.

12/03/2015  Sales of top 10 IDMs forecast to be flat; top 10 fabless companies expected to slip into negative growth this year.

12/02/2015  Physicists at the Technical University of Munich, the Los Alamos National Laboratory and Stanford University (USA) have tracked down semiconductor nanostructure mechanisms that can result in the loss of stored information - and halted the amnesia using an external magnetic field.

12/02/2015  A new era of electronics and even quantum devices could be ushered in with the fabrication of a virtually perfect single layer of "white graphene," according to researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

12/01/2015  The new industry research report from Technavio discusses in detail the key drivers and trends responsible for the growth of this market and its sub-segments.

12/01/2015  The National Science Foundation has awarded $1.2 million to three research groups at Indiana University to advance research on self-assembling molecules and computer-aided design software required to create the next generation of solar cells, circuits, sensors and other technology.

11/30/2015  Stanford University scientists have discovered how to hide the reflective upper contact and funnel light directly to the semiconductor below.

11/30/2015  In the production of power, nearly two-thirds of energy input from fossil fuels is lost as waste heat. Industry is hungry for materials that can convert this heat to useful electricity, but a good thermoelectric material is hard to find.

11/25/2015  The Commission concluded that the merged entity would continue to face effective competition in Europe.

11/24/2015  Cambridge CMOS Sensors (CCS), a semiconductor company with gas sensor solutions to monitor the local environment, today announced that it has been crowned winner of the Product of the Year category at this year's National Microelectronics Institute (NMI) Awards, held at the Grange Tower Bridge Hotel in London.

11/24/2015  The AKHAN facility is slated to begin production in Q1 2016 and will produce and deliver more than 1,000 diamond-based technology windows.

11/24/2015  Trillium US Inc, headquartered in Clackamas, OR, has announced the acquisition of the Oxford Instruments - Austin division.

11/23/2015  Today, entanglement is accepted as a fact of nature and is actively being explored as a resource for future technologies including quantum computers, quantum communication networks, and high-precision quantum sensors.

11/23/2015  A pair of scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory and Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich have proposed the first solution to subatomic stoppage: a novel way to create a more robust electron wave by binding together the electron's direction of movement and its spin.

11/19/2015  Inotera's Board of Directors announced this week that they have approved the appointment of Mr. Rod Morgan as president, succeeding Dr. Scott Meikle. The change is effective January 1, 2016.

11/19/2015  GLOBALFOUNDRIES today announced it has been presented with an Award of Excellence from INOVA Semiconductors GmbH, a specialist in the development of products for Gigabit/s serial data communication for in-vehicle Display- and Driver Assistance Systems.