KLA-Tencor executives said their company enjoyed a record burst of orders in recent weeks and is scrambling to fill them. "The big story in December is that we saw a resurgence in bookings, up 95% compared with the September quarter ... Semiconductor Manufacturing & Design
Intel Is A Great American Story -- Here's Why After President Obama shared with us his plan to overhaul the greater economy, he'll visit one industry where American ingenuity and good ... Business Insider
Micron's president to retire D. Mark Durcan, president and chief operating officer at memory chip vendor Micron Technology Inc., will step down at the end of Micron's current fiscal ... EE Times
The (Inventory) End Is Near One of the industry's two largest electronics distributors, Avnet Inc., is seeing signs that component inventory in the global supply chain is beginning ... EBN
2012: Prepare for More Supply Chain Volatility At the beginning of this year, we predicted that many overly optimistic forecasters would be proven wrong about the economy's recovery by the ... EBN
Hynix Semiconductor retains CEO Kwon Hynix Semiconductor decided to have CEO Kwon Oh-chul and vice president Park Sung-wook continue their positions in a board members' meeting. Kwon has ... The Korea Herald
LSI beats estimates Storage and networking chip vendor LSI Corp. delivered fourth quarter sales and first quarter guidance that exceeded analysts' expectations. LSI reported ... EE Times
Teradyne reports uptick in orders in Q4 Automatic test equipment vendor Teradyne Inc. reported fourth quarter sales that exceeded analysts' expectations and said order bookings improved by ... EE Times
Fab tool spending outlook improving, says Lam CEO Wafer fab equipment spending is likely to decline in 2012 compared to 2011, but the magnitude of that decline appears a lot smaller than it did a ... EE Times
Huge Capex Raises Questions Over Fablessness Huge 2012 capex budgets at Intel, Samsung and TMC will skew the industry to make it extremely challenging, and in some cases impossible, for smaller ... Electronics Weekly
Apple Fumbles the Cash Question With every quarter of another phenomenal success, Apple Inc. is compounding the problem of what to do with its growing cash pile. It's time for the ... EBN
A First Look at Intel's 14nm Fab 42 Manufacturing Facility Construction of Fab 42, the company's first volume 14 nm factory, has begun in Chandler, Arizona and has been documented in an article in the Financial ... Tom's Hardware Guide
3-tier chips to drive more powerful computing Scientists are developing a chip with three or more processors stacked vertically to ensure an unprecedented speed, memory and calculating power ... Economic Times
Chip Maker Predicts Lower Sales Advanced Micro Devices, a maker of processors for personal computers, forecast lower sales than some analysts had estimated, hurt by supply ... The New York Times
Teradyne reports uptick in orders in Q4 Automatic test equipment vendor Teradyne Inc. reported fourth quarter sales that exceeded analysts' expectations and said order bookings improved by more ... EE Times
Full Speed Ahead For Taiwan Semi It was only six weeks ago that Texas Instruments issued a sales warning heard around the world, citing "broadly lower demand across a wide range of ... Seeking Alpha
Integra Technologies Adds Memory Device Expert to Team We are pleased to announce the addition of Jeff Kendziorski as Technical Business Development Director at Integra Technologies, LLC. In this role ... Integra Technologies
Resonance effects can impede or prevent wire bond formation. The major kinds of resonance are discussed: sharp resonances on eigenfrequencies and passive, following resonances. Changing the ultrasonic frequency removes the true resonance while the passive resonance is independent of the US frequency.... F&K Delvotec Inc.
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