January 7, 2009 - Industry News
DRAMeXchange projects DRAM capex to fall 47% in 2009
A slowdown in technology node migrations at the major DRAM producers is adding to the expected capital expenditure cuts manufacturing as ...
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December 30, 2008 - Technology News
Top 10 Fabtech News Stories for 2008
As can be seen from the list below, the most popular 10 news stories had a memory theme running through the majority, with Micron and Qimonda ...
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December 23, 2008 - Top Story News
Gartner forecasts silicon wafer usage to fall 16% in 2009
The demand for silicon wafers used in the production of semiconductors is expected to decline 16% in 2009 as the impact of the global ...
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December 11, 2008 - Top Story News
SEMI Europe calls for investment to avoid mass job losses in semiconductor industry
During the third SEMI Brussels forum, SEMI Europe declared that the decline in the European semiconductor industry could potentially put ...
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November 24, 2008 - Industry News
Nearly 50% fall in semiconductor equipment sales
VLSI Research has further downgraded its assessment of semiconductor and display equipment sales for 2008 and 2009, resulting in a decline ...
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September 30, 2008 - Industry News
Aggressive scaling of NAND flash fails profitability goals
According to The Korean Times, Samsung is to accelerate the migration of NAND flash devices to its 42nm node process in an effort to improve ...
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September 19, 2008 - Technology News
Semiconductor chemistry comes to the fore
Sigma-Aldrich Fine Chemicals (SAFC), recently gathered technology journalists from across Europe in Lyon, France, to report on its ...
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September 18, 2008 - Industry News
Spansion close to 40 percent NOR flash market share
Market share figures from iSuppli Corp, show that Spansion has seen NOR flash growth of 7.5 percent in the second quarter of 2008, reaching ...
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September 11, 2008 - Industry News
Hynix and PSC cutting memory production output
Continued overcapacity in the DRAM and NAND memory markets has not been resolved by earlier announcements in 2008, by a large number of ...
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August 5, 2008 - Technology News
Solar-cell simulation gets a dino-sized push from Synopsys' Sentaurus
Although its name conjurs connections with the dinosaur realm, fallen Roman (or Romulan) Empire heroes, or fabled half-human/half-horse ...
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July 2, 2008 - Industry News
Shinichi Machida named as President and CEO of Fujitsu Microelectronics America
Fujitsu Microelectronics America, Inc. has announced the appointment of Shinichi "James" Machida as President and CEO, effective from June ...
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June 6, 2008 - Industry News
National Semiconductor's Halla says company to make solar PV play this summer
If you're a power semiconductor manufacturing executive and you're not at least examining the solar energy market, you should make sure ...
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May 29, 2008 - Industry News
WSTS lowers semiconductor projections for 2008
The spring semiconductor market forecast from WSTS shows a significant decline in global IC sales expected in 2008, compared to its last ...
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May 7, 2008 - Top Story News
Samsung posts 413% growth in foundry revenues
It may have been a lacklustre year in 2007 for revenue growth on the parts of TSMC, UMC and Chartered Semiconductor, but according to ...
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April 22, 2008 - Industry News
Semiconductor sector sees mixed results in latest Fortune 500/1000 list of top US companies
The most iconic list in American business journalism--Fortune's roster of the top 500/1000 US companies ranked by revenues--came out today ...
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April 22, 2008 - Industry News
Mattson in sub-45nm flash anneal program with global semiconductor manufacturer
Mattson Technology had its ‘Millios’ flash Rapid Thermal Processing (fRTP) system selected by a global semiconductor manufacturer for sub ...
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April 10, 2008 - Technology News
FPO electronics makes news again, opens door for self-promotion, further reporting
Reporting from this week's Printed Electronics Europe show in Dresden, Germany--as well as recent news from Thin Film Electronics and other ...
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April 10, 2008 - Industry News
Semiconductor doom & gloom too early, says Future Horizons
Malcolm Penn at Future Horizons believes it is too early to ‘write-off’ 2008 as a bad year for the semiconductor industry as overall company ...
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April 8, 2008 - Industry News
iSuppli cuts NAND revenues from 27% growth to 9% for 2008
iSuppli Corp. has slashed expected revenue growth for the NAND flash memory market in 2008. Due to the worsening consumer spending ...
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March 26, 2008 - Industry News
Take a deep breath: IC Insights offers calm advice amid the gathering recessionary storm
The possibility of a US recession has become less of a threat and more of a reality faster than you can say "Bear Stearns." But to link such ...
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March 20, 2008 - Industry News
SEMI book-to-bill ratio of 0.93 in February could be best for year
With memory manufacturers, especially NAND flash producers capital spending plans front-half year loaded and continued tightening of ...
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March 18, 2008 - Industry News
Top semiconductor equipment suppliers of 2007 ranked by VLSI Research
Applied Materials retained the top spot of semiconductor equipment suppliers, according to the 2007 rankings by revenue from VLSI ...
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March 12, 2008 - Industry News
Tronics, Europractice's first MPW MEMS partner, talks about thick SOI metrology challenges
As one of the premier purveyors of MEMS fabricated on thick silicon-on-insulator (SOI) wafers, Tronics Microsystems knows a thing or two ...
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February 29, 2008 - Industry News
Toshiba/SanDisk: world domination countdown begins
The problem of the missing fab(s) was sorted very quickly with the announcement that Toshiba - with SanDisk, its NAND flash ...
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February 12, 2008 - Industry News
Converting silicon inches into meters, then comparing wafer sales, area shipments with chip revenues
Anyone familiar with Chip Shots knows my proclivity for periodic ranting against the use of the English measurement system for measuring wafer ...
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