10/19/2015  Siborg has recently made a new MicroTec version available particularly targeting educational use of the software.

10/19/2015  Microsemi Corporation announced that it submitted an offer to acquire PMC-Sierra, Inc in a cash and stock transaction.

10/19/2015  German chemical company Evonik Industries AG and Japanese FPD production equipment manufacturer SCREEN Finetech Solutions Co., Ltd. have signed a contract for a strategic partnership.

10/19/2015  New solar cell construction extends the cell’s effective life in air by more than 10 times, with only a marginal loss of efficiency converting sunlight to electricity.

10/19/2015  Applied Materials, Inc. announced it plans to establish a new R&D laboratory in Singapore in collaboration with the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR).

10/16/2015  A study published in Advanced Materials Interfaces by the Energy Materials and Surface Sciences Unit at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST) reveals a cause for the short lifetime of perovskite solar cells with silver electrodes.

10/16/2015  SEMI announced the lineup of speakers for SEMICON Japan’s keynote stage, which focuses on key market and technology challenges and developments, and their impact on the semiconductor supply chain.

10/15/2015  The global automotive MEMS sensor market was valued at $2,600.5 million in 2014, and it is expected to grow at a CAGR of 6.0%, during the period 2015-2020.

10/14/2015  FlexEnable has successfully validated a new class of high performance organic semiconductors in a million pound project funded by Innovate UK.

10/13/2015  VeriSilicon Holdings Co., Ltd. and Vivante Corporation announced a definitive merger agreement.

10/13/2015  Japan has long played a critical role in semiconductor manufacturing and accounts for the largest portion of the global total installed fab capacity in 2015 according to the SEMI Fab database.

10/12/2015  The Centre of Process Innovation (CPI) has announced that it is part of a UK based collaboration to develop the next generation of ultra-barrier materials using graphene for the production of flexible transparent plastic electronic based displays.

10/12/2015  Scientists from the University of Chicago and Penn State University accidentally discovered a new way of using light to draw and erase quantum-mechanical circuits in a unique class of materials called topological insulators.

10/12/2015  According to a new market research report published by MarketsandMarkets, the market is expected to grow at a CAGR of 6.83% between 2015 and 2020, and reach $4.94 Billion by 2020.

10/12/2015  Applied Materials, Inc. unveiled two new systems that enable the volume production of high-resolution, thin and lightweight flexible OLED displays for mobile products and TVs.

10/12/2015  Penn State materials scientists have discovered a way to give the transistor a boost by incorporating vanadium oxide.

10/12/2015  Infineon’s CEO, Reinhard Ploss, says that the autonomously driven cars of the future will create a large demand for a variety of new semiconductors and sensors.

10/08/2015  mCube announced the sampling of its new MC3635 3-axis accelerometer featuring the industry’s lowest power consumption and a microscopic 1.6×1.6 mm Land Grid Array package.

10/08/2015  A blend of two polymers can be used to boost the efficiency of LEDs, according to a research study published in the journal Applied Materials Today.

10/08/2015  As the push for tinier and faster electronics continues, a new finding by University of British Columbia scientists could help inform the design of the next generation of cheaper, more efficient devices.