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Semiconductor equipment sales forecast: $62B in 2018 a new record
12/12/2018The equipment market is expected to contract 4.0 percent in 2019 but grow 20.7 percent to reach $71.9 billion, an all-time high….
Process Watch: Monitoring for excursions in automotive fabs
11/29/2018The Process Watch series explores key concepts about process control — defect inspection, metrology and data analytics — for the semiconduc…
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12/12/2018Now that most companies in our sector analyses have reported their calendar third quarter 2018 financial results, we have final or 3Q’18/2Q’17 …
Global semiconductor sales increase 12.7% year-to-year in October
12/06/2018The global semiconductor industry posted solid year-to-year growth in October and is on pace for its highest-ever annual sales in 2018,…
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SiFive recognized as Most Respected Private Semiconductor Company

12/14/2018  RISC-V leader honored for its products, growth and performance by Global Semiconductor Alliance.

MIT team invents method to shrink objects to the nanoscale

12/14/2018  MIT researchers have invented a way to fabricate nanoscale 3-D objects of nearly any shape. They can also pattern the objects with a variety of useful materials, including metals, quantum dots, and DNA.

DRAM growth tops industry ranking in 2018; Outlook dims for 2019

12/14/2018  DRAM fastest growing market in four of past six years, demonstrating very cyclical market.

SST and SK hynix system ic partner to expand availability of embedded SuperFlash technology

12/13/2018  Leading 200 mm foundry selects SST's SuperFlash technology for 110 nm CMOS process platform.

FO-WLP panel production becomes a reality

12/13/2018  Panel FO-WLP is in production at Powertech Technology, Inc. (PTI) for MediaTek’s power management integrated circuit (PMIC) for smartphone applications.

Ferdinand-Braun-Institut chooses ClassOne for three additional wet processing tools

12/13/2018  ClassOne Technology, global supplier of wet processing equipment for <200mm semiconductor manufacturing, announced the sale of three more tools to the Ferdinand-Braun-Institut, Leibniz-Institut für Höchstfrequenztechnik (FBH) in Berlin, Germany.

Micron delivers industry's highest-capacity monolithic mobile memory for MediaTek's newest Helio smartphone platform

12/13/2018  Micron Technology, Inc., a developer of memory and storage solutions, today announced that its monolithic 12Gb low-power double data rate 4X (LPDDR4X) DRAM has been validated for use in MediaTek's new Helio P90 smartphone platform reference design.

Seoul Semiconductor wins patent litigation against Everlight in Germany

12/12/2018  Seoul Semiconductor Co., Ltd. announced that it won a patent litigation against Everlight Electronics Co., Ltd. in Germany.

New Intel architectures and technologies target expanded market opportunities

12/12/2018  At Intel “Architecture Day,” top executives, architects and fellows revealed next-generation technologies and discussed progress on a strategy to power an expanding universe of data-intensive workloads for PCs and other smart consumer devices, high-speed networks, ubiquitous artificial intelligence (AI), specialized cloud data centers and autonomous vehicles.

Lattice Semiconductor appoints Glenn O'Rourke as Corporate VP, Global Operations

12/11/2018  Lattice Semiconductor Corporation announced the appointment of Glenn O’Rourke as the Company’s Corporate Vice President, Global Operations, effective immediately.

HEIDENHAIN opens new office on west coast

12/11/2018  As the Silicon Valley in California and the West Coast continue to be the hub of the semiconductor manufacturing in the U.S., HEIDENHAIN has expanded its motion systems support by establishing an ETEL facility in Fremont, CA.

Rudolph’s NovusEdge selected by wafer manufacturers for bare wafer edge and backside inspection

12/11/2018  Rudolph Technologies, Inc. today announced the receipt of over $12M in new orders for its recently-released NovusEdge system for edge and backside inspection on bare silicon wafers.

SEMICON Japan 2018 opens tomorrow focusing on SMART applications

12/11/2018  SEMICON Japan 2018, the largest and most influential event for the electronics manufacturing supply chain in Japan with more than 70,000 attendees expected, opens tomorrow at Tokyo Big Sight.

GOWIN Semiconductor opens European office

12/11/2018  GOWIN Semiconductor Corp., an innovator of programmable logic devices, announces the expansion of its global sales operations into the EMEA region.

Novel laser technology for microchip-size chemical sensors

12/10/2018  'Frequency combs' are optimally suited for chemical sensors; a revolutionary technology developed at TU Wien (Vienna) now produces these laser frequencies in a much easier and more robust way.

Emerging NVM : PCM finally takes off in stand-alone applications

12/10/2018  Ever-growing data generation driven by mobile devices, the cloud, the IoT , and big data, as well as novel AI applications, all part of the megatrends, requires continuous advancements in memory technologies.

Synopsys and imec demonstrate accelerated modeling of complementary FET (CFET) technology

12/10/2018  Synopsys, Inc. announced today another milestone in its longstanding partnership with imec.

Topological matters: Toward a new kind of transistor

12/10/2018  X-ray experiments at Berkeley Lab provide first demonstration of room temperature switching in ultrathin material that could serve as a 'topological transistor'.

Microtronic announces new informational tech bulletin series on optimizing semiconductor macro defect wafer inspection

12/07/2018  Microtronic, Inc., a maker of high-speed full-wafer semiconductor macro defect inspection systems, wants to shed new light on a topic that is frequently misunderstood in the industry: macro vs. micro inspection.

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Kinetics acquires Mega Fluid Systems

03/30/2018  According to the details of the agreement, Mega Fluid Systems will operate as a Kinetics company, but will maintain its brand and product line.



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EUV lithography has been under intense development for years and appears to be close to production. Yet its delay has the industry searching for alternatives, including double, triple and even quadruple patterning, directed self-assembly, multi-e-beam and nanoimprint. In this webcast, experts will detail various options, future scenarios and challenges that must still be overcome.

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The semiconductor industry is an acknowledged global leader in promoting environmental sustainability in the design, manufacture, and use of its products, as well as the health and safety of its operations and impacts on workers in semiconductor facilities (fabs). We will examine trends and concerns related to emissions, chemical use, energy consumption and worker safety and health.

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As the industry moves to 10nm and 7nm nodes, advances in wafer processing – etch, deposition, planarization, implant, cleaning, annealing, epitaxy among others – will be required. Manufacturers are looking for new solutions for sustained strain engineering, FinFETs, FDSOI and multi-gate technologies, 3D NAND, and high mobility transistors.

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