We search for industry news, so you don't need to. Home  I  News  I  Exclusives  I  White Papers  I  Calendar  I  Corporate News  I  Advertising  I  Site Map   Industry and Technology News Index August 6, 2009  -  Click the title to read the full article. Equipment Sales Have Bottomed Out and Are Now Moving Up The most severe recession to hit the advanced industrial economies since the 1930s is bottoming out. Coincident with this is a turnaround in chip ... Semi We search for industry news, so you don't need to. You would be much better informed if you could read every important article impacting the semiconductor packaging market. But you can't spend all day searching for them. Let us do the searching for you. Get a Free Subscription to Semiconductor Packaging News More from Semi December 12, 2012 - Event Calendar LED Packaging In the future, solid state lighting manufacturers will focus on the development of high-power, high brightness LEDs. Since LED packaging ... Semitracks July 11, 2012 - Event Calendar Reliability Challenges Semiconductor reliability is at a crossroads. In the past, reliability meant discovering, characterizing and modeling failure mechanisms and ... Semitracks May 7, 2012 - Event Calendar Copper Wire Bonding Technology and Challenges The drive to reduce costs in semiconductor and integrated circuits remains a key challenge for the industry. For example, many of today's ICs use ... Semitracks March 13, 2012 - Event Calendar Polymers and FTIR Course This 2-day course offers detailed instruction on the technology issues associated with polymers in semiconductor packages and electronics. We ... Semitracks March 12, 2012 - Event Calendar Semiconductor Reliability Course Semiconductor Reliability is a 3-day course that offers detailed instruction on a variety of subjects pertaining to semiconductor reliability. Semitracks March 12, 2012 - Event Calendar Wafer Fab Processing Course This course offers an in-depth look into the semiconductor manufacturing process and individual processing technologies. We place special .... Semitracks February 13, 2012 - Event Calendar Failure Analysis This multi-day course covers effective analysis tools and presents systematic process flows that simplify defect localization and ... Semitracks February 9, 2012 - Event Calendar EOS/ESD and How to Differentiate Electrical Overstress (EOS) and Electrostatic Discharge (ESD) account for most of the field failures observed in the electronics industry. ... Semitracks February 6, 2012 - Industry News Novellus Sees China, Wafer-Level Packaging, 3D NAND as Market Drivers Wafer-level packaging and 3D NAND are two market drivers that will propel revenues at the combined Lam-Novellus operation this year and next, chief ... Semiconductor Manufacturing & Design 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 January 24, 2012 - Industry News Semi Equipment Industry Posts December 2011 Book-to-Bill Ratio of 0.88 North America-based manufacturers of semiconductor equipment posted $1.16 billion in orders in December 2011 and a book-to-bill ratio of 0.88 ... SEMI 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 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 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 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 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 January 20, 2012 - Industry News December 2011 SEMI Book-to-Bill Rescheduled The December 2011 SEMI Book-to-Bill press release, originally scheduled for January 19, 2012, has been rescheduled pending completion of data ... SEMI 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 To find more articles from Semi, use the search form below. Home  |  About Us  |  Advertising  |  Advertising Rates  |  Calendar  |  Corporate News Contact Us  |  Free Subscription  |  Industry News  |  Exclusives  |  Letters  |  Viewpoint  |  White Papers Search Category    Entire Site Industry/Technology News Corporate News Exclusive Articles Issue Archives Company Information    Search Term    To search a phrase, place it in quotes. Semiconductor Packaging News - A Circuitnet Publication We search for industry news so you don't need to. Circuitnet LLC, 22 Parkridge Road, Haverhill, MA 01835 USA Copyright © 2011 Circuitnet.    All rights reserved. Jeff Ferry, Publisher  | Ken Cavallaro, Business Manager Visit Circuitnet for the latest electronics assembly news and information.