February 8, 2010
Daily Circulation Over 35,000
NEW Hesse & Knipps BONDJET BJ915L
for your leadframe applications
 Hesse & Knipps BONDJET BJ915L heavy wire bonder gives you high speed leadframe production with dual heads, award-winning PiQC and inline shear and pull test. Learn more…
Hesse & Knipps
Test Your Knowledge
The tendency of a drill bit to make off-center, out-of-round holes, that are not perpendicular is called what?
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ShinEtsu Photoresists, perfect for:
3D packaging, WLP, TSV and wafer bonding
 For stress buffer, wafer bonding, copper pillar, RDL and 3D packaging. Low modulus, low temperature cure, low stress; g, h, or i-line sensitive, thick plating resists and dry films. Low dielectric constant; safe solvent; excellent prime-less adhesion. Learn more…
ShinEtsu
On This Day
February 8, 1672 - Isaac Newton read his first optics paper before Royal Society in London.
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Bringing the Best Together
Ablestik and Emerson & Cuming join Henkel
 Henkel brings the best electronics and semiconductor material brands together for long-term solutions. Our wide range of Electronics Assembly products including Loctite, Multicore, Hysol, Ablestik and Emerson & Cuming will deliver results for your production requirements. Learn more …
Henkel Corporation
Cartoon of the Day
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"I haven't read your proposal yet, Bob, but I already have some great ideas on how to improve it."
Copyright © Randy Glasbergen
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Viewpoint 2010
Bob Sykes, CTO, XYZTEC
 Although the market was slow in 2009, XYZTEC took the initiative to invest in long term projects, one of them being new products to address green technology, like solar, and semiconductor trends such as 3D and ever reducing geometry! In addition, we experienced a 30% increase in personnel; not common during a recession. These efforts provide the ...
Where The Money Is
System-Level Design sat down to discuss where the value has shifted in the supply chain with Tom Quan, director at TSMC; Kalar Rajendiran, senior ...
Chip Design Magazine
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Korea Targets the Recovery and Beyond
Optimism about the short and long term prospects for the semiconductor industry was heard throughout SEMICON Korea, held on February 3-5 in ...
Semi
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Kulicke & Soffa Q1 results top Street, shares soar
Kulicke & Soffa Industries Inc posted quarterly results that blew past analyst expectations, riding on the recovery in the semiconductor ...
Reuters
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Applied Korea at Center of IP Theft Case
South Korean prosecutors said Applied Materials Korea staff "extensively" gathered secret Samsung memory chip production technology and passed ...
Semiconductor International
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ASE sees profit growth in 2009; beats 4Q09 guidance
Chip packaging and testing house Advanced Semiconductor Engineering (ASE) has reported a 9.5% profit growth but a 9.2% revenue drop compared to ...
Digitimes
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Semiconductor companies predict higher revenue
Business in the semiconductor industry is improving, highlighted by a string of upbeat earnings forecasts from several large chip makers over ...
Arizona Republic
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Chip spies arrested in South Korea
Just what we need in the boring old chip industry, a John LeCarre style tale of corporate espionage, and intrigue. South Korean prosecutors ...
TG Daily
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Leap In Quantum Computing
A major hurdle in the ambitious quest to design and construct a radically new kind of quantum computer has been finding a way to manipulate the ...
Red Orbit
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Samsung, Hynix Differ on Chip Outlook
Samsung Electronics and Hynix Semiconductor are clashing over the outlook of the global chip market for 2010. The world's top two chip makers ...
Korea Times
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TI says vision sharpened in R&D cuts
Texas Instruments Inc., a legendary font of innovation, cut its budget for research and development by almost half a billion dollars in 2009. ...
Dallas Morning News
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Japan's Fujitsu says it made first 'iPad'
Apple's new tablet PC is not the first product to be called the "iPad". Japan's Fujitsu says it launched one years ago, and the name has also ...
AFP
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Smartphones set to change the future
Smartphones are ushering in a new era of mobile Internet services. This type of phone has become an essential part of daily life for many ...
JoongAng Daily
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Thermal Innovations that make
the World's Technology Cool
 The 26th annual IEEE SEMI-THERM Semiconductor Thermal Modeling, Measurement and Management Symposium will be held February 21-25, at the Santa Clara Convention Center. Don't miss this important event for the thermal management field. Click for program & registration information…
IEEE SEMI-THERM
Quote of the Day
"One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man." Elbert Hubbard
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F&K Delvotec introduces
Automated Pull and Shear Tester
 F&K Delvotec's Desk Top Micro-Factory has been enhanced. Using a New Camera system on the Pull/Shear test head we introduce Model 5600C. A fully automatic pull & shear test machine w/ pattern recognition. You can convert to an auto wire-bonder in 3 minutes? Learn more…
F&K Delvotec
Test Your Knowledge
The tendency of a drill bit to make off-center, out-of-round holes, that are not perpendicular is called what?
Answer: Splay or runout
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