December 1, 2011 - Industry News
TSMC VP Speaks on Latest Statuses of TSV, Lithography
As for process development, TSMC completed the development of the "CLN28HPM," a 28nm process technology for mobile devices, and started risk production ...
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January 6, 2011 - Top Story News
Mr. Semiconductor Predicts Industry's Future
In the semiconductor industry, a period in which standardization is valued and a period in which customization is emphasized alternate every 10 years. This is a well-known ...
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August 13, 2010 - Industry News
Intel on 15nm, Beyond CMOS Technologies
The limit of scaling down CMOS transistors, which are elementary elements of chips, has long been pointed out. But it seems that the limit still ...
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July 7, 2010 - Industry News
TSMC: Semi Market Will Keep Growing, but at Slow Pace
TSMC Japan Ltd announced its long-term perspective on the semiconductor market at a press conference in Tokyo. "In and after 2012, the market ...
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May 3, 2010 - Technology News
Successor to Post Flash Memory Approaching Volume Production
The development of emerging memory to replace flash memory and dynamic random access memory (DRAM) is approaching a major turning point ...
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April 2, 2010 - Technology News
New Technologies Replace LVDS in Notebook PCs, TVs and More
Low-voltage differential signaling (LVDS) has become an almost universal standard for data transceiver interfaces between displays and image ...
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February 18, 2010 - Industry News
Mitsubishi Claims Efficiency Record for Polysilicon Solar Cell
Mitsubishi Electric Corp achieved a cell conversion efficiency of 19.3% with a polysilicon solar cell measuring 15 x 15cm. The conversion ...
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December 11, 2009 - Technology News
Univ of Tokyo, Others Realize CMOS Device Using 7-micron Wafer
The Institute of Engineering Innovation of the School of Engineering at the University of Tokyo developed a technology to reduce the thickness ...
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September 17, 2009 - Technology News
3D Cells Make Terabit NAND Flash Possible
Two leading manufacturers of NAND Flash memory, Samsung Electronics and Toshiba, believe that a technique to achieve larger capacity will be ...
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August 19, 2009 - Industry News
Intel, Samsung, TSMC Remain in "Billion-Dollar Club" for CAPEX, Says IC Insights
The number of companies expected to spend at least US$1 billion on semiconductor capital equipment is forecast to fall to its lowest number ...
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August 18, 2009 - Industry News
Intel Might Become Only Major IDM in World
SoCs are developed basically by combining IP cores. Therefore, IDMs have to have powerful IP cores, design techniques to integrate IP cores and ...
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August 11, 2009 - Technology News
Why Toyota Cannot Step Up Prius Production?
My motto as a journalist is to report a story before it becomes a topic of conversation. So, I would like to wrap up this topic and move on ...
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August 11, 2009 - Technology News
Solder Ball Placement Using Accurate Screen Printing
Printer-hosted processes for solder ball placement are now widely used for package technologies ranging from BGAs using ball diameters above ...
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August 6, 2009 - Industry News
Silicon Wafer Shipments Increase Sharply in Q2 09, Says SMG
According to the SEMI Silicon Manufacturers Group (SMG), worldwide silicon wafer area shipments increased significantly during Q2 2009 when ...
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August 6, 2009 - Technology News
MEMS Projectors Showed Off at Trade Show
Some companies exhibited projectors equipped with MEMS scanners at Exhibition Micromachine/MEMS 2009, including Panasonic Electric Works ...
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August 3, 2009 - Technology News
Shin-Etsu Introduces Dry Film Dielectric Photoresist for Wafer Bonding, TSV Applications
Shin-Etsu MicroSi has introduced an extension to its photosensitive dry film dielectric technology for 3D Through-Silicon Vias (TSV) and ...
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July 31, 2009 - Industry News
Solar Market Suffering from Excess Inventory, Disappointing Demand, Says iSuppli
A massive oversupply of solar modules combined with disappointing demand caused average inventories throughout the solar supply chain to soar ...
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July 22, 2009 - Industry News
SemiLEDs Expands LED Production Capacity in Taiwan
SemiLEDs Corp, a manufacturer of high power LEDs in the US, has opened its third production facility in Hsin-Chu Science Park, Taiwan. This ...
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July 9, 2009 - Industry News
Low Prices Prevent True Recovery of Consumer Electronics Market, Says iSuppli
Although the global consumer electronics market returned to sequential revenue growth in Q2, the industry this year will not achieve an annual ...
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June 24, 2009 - Industry News
Worldwide Chip Revenue to Drop to Year 2000 Levels
Databeans is expecting the chip market to amount to just over US$200 billion in 2009, which was the size of the market nine years ago. After ...
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June 17, 2009 - Technology News
[VLSI] Univ of Tokyo Doubles SSD Random Write Speed
The University of Tokyo and the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) developed a ferroelectric NAND flash ...
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June 5, 2009 - Top Story News
3D Technology Drives Semiconductor Evolution
IBM has pioneered a host of new semiconductor technologies adopted later by other firms. We spoke with Bernard Meyerson, IBM Fellow and chief ...
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May 28, 2009 - Industry News
Sharp Develops High-power Solar Cell Module for Mobile Devices
Sharp Corp announced it developed a solar cell module intended for mobile devices, the "LR0GC02." The module features a conversion efficiency of ...
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May 19, 2009 - Industry News
STMicroelectronics Defies Flat Car Infotainment Chip Market in 2008, Says iSuppli
Defying a flat year for the global automotive infotainment semiconductor market, leading supplier STMicroelectronics NV managed to achieve ...
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May 8, 2009 - Industry News
Advantest Consolidates Subsidiaries, Manufacturing Facilities
Advantest Corp announced that it has consolidated a number of its Japanese subsidiaries to reduce costs and enhance efficiency. In order to bring ...
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