February 2, 2012 - Top Story News
Microsoft Touts DFM for Systems and Chip Design
Chip scaling is expected to continue for the next decade, but systems houses face a number of challenges in semiconductor production and design-for-manufacturing (DFM). "I believe we still have ten years in the pipeline to continue Moore's Law," ...
Semiconductor Manufacturing & Design
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February 2, 2012 - Industry News
Firms Mull New Mobile DRAM Standard Amid 3D Concerns
Amid the cost and manufacturing uncertainties for 3D-based Wide I/O DRAMs, the memory community has intensified the discussions about the development ...
Semiconductor Manufacturing & Design
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February 1, 2012 - Corporate News
Touchstone Semiconductor Launches the Touchstone Video Channe
Touchstone Semiconductor announced it has launched the new Touchstone Video Channel featuring application videos to help design engineers in applying ...
Touchstone Semiconductor
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January 31, 2012 - Industry News
Lithography Vendors Expand Immersion Roadmaps
At one time, there was a prevailing thought that 193nm immersion lithography would soon run out of gas, possibly at the 32nm node or so. Then, at ...
Semiconductor Manufacturing & Design
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January 30, 2012 - Industry News
Samsung Raises Semi Capex to $13.4 Billion
Heading into 2012, most predicated that semiconductor capital spending would be down this year amid sluggish IC demand. Suddenly, capital spending ...
Semiconductor Manufacturing & Design
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January 30, 2012 - Industry News
Lithography Vendors Expand Immersion Roadmaps
At one time, there was a prevailing thought that 193nm immersion lithography would soon run out of gas, possibly at the 32nm node or so. Then, at ...
Semiconductor Manufacturing & Design
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January 30, 2012 - Exclusive Articles/Announcements
2012 IC Market Forecast
We were invited to attend an IC Insights seminar on the "The McClean Report" last week in Boston. The seminar was hosted by Bill McClean and Trevor Yancey for IC Insights and provided an excellent update on the semiconductor markets for 2012. The presentation included over 100 slides with analysis and forecast for the IC industry. I've summarized the highlights ...
Semiconductor Packagning News
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January 27, 2012 - Top Story News
Order Resurgence as Foundries Ramp
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
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January 24, 2012 - Industry News
Collaboration, Coordination And Consolidation
By anyone's standards, the ability of the semiconductor industry to reduce costs is the pinnacle of industrial automation. The dollar that bought a ...
Semiconductor Manufacturing & Design
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January 23, 2012 - Industry News
Micron Technology to Make Deal with Elpida
There are more rumors that Micron Technology Inc. will make a bid for debt-ridden Elpida Memory Inc. As reported, there has been speculation about ...
Semiconductor Manufacturing & Design
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January 23, 2012 - Corporate News
Touchstone Semiconductor Launches the New TS6001A
Touchstone Semiconductor announced the newest member of its voltage reference family, the TS6001A, a low-power, low-dropout precision SOT-23 voltage ...
Touchstone Semiconductor
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January 23, 2012 - Industry News
Intel Ups 2012 Capex Budget to $12.5 Billion
Intel Corp. said its capital spending for 2012 is expected to be $12.5 billion, plus or minus $400 million, with "more than a third" of the 2012 ...
Semiconductor Manufacturing & Design
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January 20, 2012 - Industry News
3D packaging or general chip shot
To enable high-volume production readiness of 3D-based products, SEMATECH's 3D Interconnect and Manufacturability programs will be conducting ...
EuroAsia Semiconductor
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January 19, 2012 - Top Story News
Tool Vendors Want More Say in 450mm
The 450mm era recently celebrated its first milestone with the announcement of a new and major consortium. While the new group -- dubbed the Global 450 Consortium or G450C -- has gotten the ball rolling in 450mm, the fab tool community has suddenly ...
Semiconductor Manufacturing & Design
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January 19, 2012 - Industry News
TSMC: 20nm Risk Production to Start 2H 2013
TSMC chairman and CEO Morris Chang said 20nm risk production will begin in the second half of 2013. During a conference call following release of ...
Semiconductor Manufacturing & Design
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January 18, 2012 - Industry News
Applied CEO: Tool Vendors Want More Say in 450mm
The 450mm era recently celebrated its first milestone with the announcement of a new and major consortium. While the new group -- dubbed the Global ...
Semiconductor Manufacturing & Design
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January 18, 2012 - Industry News
Lam-Novellus Deal to Create Economies of Scale
Lam Research Corp.'s recent move to buy Novellus Systems Inc. will enable the combined entity to create economies of scale and accelerate its efforts in ...
Semiconductor Manufacturing & Design
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January 18, 2012 - Industry News
ASML Holding Makes Bold Promises with EUV
ASML Holding NV will hit another milestone in the next-generation lithography race: It will ship its first production extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography ...
Semiconductor Manufacturing & Design
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January 16, 2012 - Industry News
Samsung, Win Semi Gain Ground in Foundry Rankings
The rapid shift towards smartphones, tablets and other products has caused a major change in the foundry business -- and overall rankings. Amid the ...
Semiconductor Manufacturing & Design Community
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January 13, 2012 - Corporate News
OSRAM Opto expands its leading position in high-quality, thin-film LEDs
Researchers at OSRAM Opto Semiconductors have succeeded in manufacturing high-performance prototypes of blue and white LEDs, in which the light-emitting ...
OSRAM Opto Semiconductors
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January 13, 2012 - Industry News
GaAs IC market growth slows to 1% in 2011
After growing 1.7% in 2009 then 36% in 2010, the gallium arsenide (GaAs) IC market grew just 1% in 2011, according to the 'The GaAs IC Market' from ...
Semiconductor Today
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January 13, 2012 - Industry News
EV Group Signs Collaboration Agreement With Eulitha
EV Group announced that it has signed a joint-development and licensing agreement with Eulitha AG, a pioneer and leader in the production of high ...
Semiconductor Online
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January 13, 2012 - Top Story News
IC Market to Rebound
The IC market is expected to bounce back in 2012, but capital spending is projected to see a steep double-digit drop this year. Bill McClean, president of IC Insights, predicted that the semiconductor market will be up 7% from 2011 ...
Semiconductor Manufacturing & Design
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January 13, 2012 - Industry News
Samsung, Win Semi Gain Ground in Foundry Rankings
The rapid shift towards smartphones, tablets and other products has caused a major change in the foundry business -- and overall rankings. Amid the ...
Semiconductor Manufacturing & Design
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January 11, 2012 - Corporate News
Intel and Plessey Sign Licensing and Warrant Agreements
Plessey Semiconductors announced that it has agreed to a product licensing agreement with Intel Corporation and a share warrant agreement with Intel ...
Plessey Semiconductors Ltd
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