December 3, 2008 - Technology News
Solar cell efficiency boosted
Thin-film solar cells that could boost conversion efficiency by 50 percent while cutting materials costs by using less silicon will be ...
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December 3, 2008 - Industry News
Qualcomm infringement ruling affirmed, vacated in part
A U.S. federal appeals court affirmed a lower court ruling against Qualcomm Inc. in a patent infringement case with rival Broadcom Corp. ...
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December 3, 2008 - Industry News
IC downturn in 'unknown territory,' says Soitec CEO
As the economic crisis continues to wreck havoc on the market, the IC industry is looking down the abyss and attempting to make sense of ...
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December 2, 2008 - Industry News
Brussels forum plans to lobby EU for chip industry support
Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International, the industry body that represents chipmaking equipment and materials suppliers, is ...
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December 2, 2008 - Industry News
Americas actual chip sales fell 22% in October, says WSTS
The Americas region held back global semiconductor sales in October, according to the latest figures from the World Semiconductor Trade ...
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December 2, 2008 - Industry News
October chip sales down 10.4% year-on-year, says WSTS
The global market for semiconductors was $19.31 billion in October, down 1.3% compared to October 2007, according to 'actual' data from World ...
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November 28, 2008 - Top Story News
MEMS market to suffer from economic crisis in 2009, says Yole
French research and strategy consulting company Yole Développement provided an analysis on the impact of the economic slowdown on the ...
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November 28, 2008 - Technology News
Nanotube switching effect discovered
Scientists from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) have unexpectedly discovered a physical effect that potentially can be used ...
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November 28, 2008 - Technology News
LCOS driver chip for mobile projectors
Aurora Systems introduced a new integrated LCOS driver ASIC designed for mobile projection applications. The new driver chip, designated the ...
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November 28, 2008 - Industry News
AMD spin-off Foundry Co. sees no long-term downturn
AMD's manufacturing arm which is heading for a spin-off to form a foundry services provider, regards the current downturn as a good anti- ...
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November 26, 2008 - Industry News
Packaging goes vertical
3D semiconductor packages enable the form and function for many devices we use in our daily lives--mobile handsets, personal entertainment ...
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November 26, 2008 - Technology News
UMC validates high-k process at 45nm
United Microelectronics Corp. has validated its high-k metal gate process with a test SRAM design run at the 45nm node. The move is a ...
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November 26, 2008 - Industry News
Cisco shares fall after report of 4-day shutdown
Shares of Cisco Systems Inc. fell almost 4% after UBS said in a research note that the company was planning a 4-day shutdown to cut costs for ...
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November 25, 2008 - Top Story News
Is the U.S. falling behind in chip R&D?
Much ink has been devoted to the decline of semiconductor research and development in the United States. Pessimists say Bell Labs has thrown ...
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November 25, 2008 - Technology News
Intel, Micron in 34-nm NAND flash push
Intel Corporation and Micron Technologies Inc. have started volume production of their jointly developed 34-nm, 32 gigabit multi-level ...
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November 25, 2008 - Technology News
Silicon circuitry married to flexible substrates
Traditional silicon circuitry is lightning fast, but can't be deposited on flexible polymer substrates because of the high temperatures used ...
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November 25, 2008 - Industry News
Analyst cuts estimates for 10 chip stocks
FBR Capital Markets cut revenue estimates and price targets on 10 semiconductor stocks, saying in a report, "Global semiconductor demand ...
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November 24, 2008 - Top Story News
Fear and hope cloud chip market
Future Horizons is predicting that the semiconductor industry will witness a 2 per cent decline next year but that there will be no re ...
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November 24, 2008 - Technology News
QMEMS process said to shrink quartz crystals
MEMS oscillators use IC processing techniques to craft mechanical resonators that can be tethered inside a silicon chip. Traditional ...
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November 24, 2008 - Industry News
VLSI Research cuts chip, capital equipment forecasts
Semiconductor sales will decline 1.7 percent this year and another 6.9 percent in 2009, according to a revised forecast by market research ...
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November 24, 2008 - Industry News
EDA must become a partner to its own customers.
The present US government is experiencing a phenomenon unexpected by their economic gurus. The economic fix they engineered does not seem ...
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November 24, 2008 - Industry News
Top chip sellers in China for '07
IC consumption in China grew by 23 percent last year.In fact, China consumed more than a third of the chips produced globally for the ...
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November 21, 2008 - Industry News
Novellus lowers guidance, mulls cost-cutting moves
Novellus Systems Inc. lowered guidance for the fourth quarter, saying it now expects revenue to be in the range of $207 million to $217 ...
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November 21, 2008 - Industry News
NXP sees sales decline by up to 25% in Q408
In a grim update on immediate prospects, NXP Semiconductors said it is forecasting a 15 to 25 percent sequential decline in sales for the ...
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November 21, 2008 - Industry News
Wacker Chemie sees no decrease in polysilicon demand
Amidst gloomy predictions for the semiconductor industry, Wacker Chemie has started a new production reactor for polysilicon. The material can ...
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