October 10, 2008 - Top Story News
Gartner may cut IC outlook, urges calm
How will the current financial crisis affect the semiconductor market?
The current economic climate is horrible, but it's not all doom-and- ...
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October 10, 2008 - Technology News
Panasonic, Renesas to devise 32-nm process
In a move to expand its process partnership, Japan's Panasonic Corp. and Renesas Technology Corp. are now collaborating on 32-nm technology for ...
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October 9, 2008 - Industry News
Stacked microprocessor system promises enhanced performance
Advanced microprocessors do the heavy number-crunching in all sorts of electronics systems, but these chips are hampered by the amount of ...
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October 9, 2008 - Industry News
SEMI sounds the alarm: European chip industry on the red list
Against the background of Europe's dwindling role in the global semiconductor industry, SEMI industry association demands measures ...
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October 8, 2008 - Industry News
MEMS market demands new foundry strategies
When Freescale Semiconductor transferred a MEMS process from Sendai, Japan, to its Oak Hill fab in Austin, Texas, earlier this year, the ...
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October 8, 2008 - Technology News
Solar inverter delivers more power, faster ROI
Advanced Energy Industries, Inc. has unveiled its latest Solaron offering, a 500-kW, utility-scale, transformerless, grid-tie ...
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October 7, 2008 - Industry News
FBM could leave DRAM in the dust
Dynamic random access memory (DRAM) has been the memory device of choice for design engineers worldwide for more than 30 years. While the ...
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October 7, 2008 - Technology News
Sitronics' Krasnikov prepares to partner for 45-nm process
Russia's JSC Sitronics has some ambitious plans: It wants to leapfrog generations of semiconductor technology and spark activity that will ...
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October 7, 2008 - Industry News
Chip package choices abound
When creating a new IC, all of the initial focus is naturally on the design. When it comes to tape-out, then fabrication, multi-project ...
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October 7, 2008 - Industry News
Samsung investing heavily despite economic climate
Samsung Electronics' Woosik Chu likes to say the Korean electronic giant is "a cut above the competition." It's a boast Chu, Samsung executive ...
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October 6, 2008 - Industry News
Suss sacks CEO over company strategy
The supervisory board of Suss MicroTec AG has announced the firing of CEO Stefan Schneidewind, because of a difference of opinion regarding ...
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October 6, 2008 - Industry News
Samsung investing heavily despite economic climate
Samsung Electronics' Woosik Chu likes to say the Korean electronic giant is "a cut above the competition." It's a boast Chu, Samsung executive ...
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October 6, 2008 - Industry News
MEMS market demands new foundry strategies
When Freescale Semiconductor transferred a MEMS process from Sendai, Japan, to its Oak Hill fab here earlier this year, the company didn't ...
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October 6, 2008 - Technology News
FBM could leave DRAM in the dust
Dynamic random access memory (DRAM) has been the memory device of choice for design engineers worldwide for more than 30 years. While the ...
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October 6, 2008 - Industry News
CMOS is still irreplaceable, says TI exec
Dennis Buss, chief scientist at TI, gave a retrospective look and a prospective analysis of the semiconductor industry as Moore's law is ...
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October 6, 2008 - Industry News
Micron announces cost control measures
Micron Technology Inc. has announced some cost control measures after reporting a Rs.6,881.70 crore ($1.6 billion) loss for its fiscal year ...
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October 3, 2008 - Technology News
No nanoelectronics technology can replace CMOS until 2030
Fifty years ago, Jack St. Clair Kilby, working for Texas Instruments Inc., invented the integrated circuit. At the same Forum, in the Science ...
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October 3, 2008 - Industry News
SEMI cuts capex outlook amid 'panic situation'
The sky is falling in semiconductor equipment. After releasing its new and upbeat 2009 capital spending forecast in August, SEMI has already ...
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October 3, 2008 - Industry News
IBM 'fab club' outlines foundry process roadmap
IBM Corp.'s ''fab club'' alliance has outlined its foundry process roadmap, tipping a 28-nm ''half-node'' technology, and, in some ...
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October 3, 2008 - Technology News
X-Fab rolls search tool to boost designs
Continuing its ongoing corporate integration strategy amid a possible slowdown, Germany's X-Fab Semiconductor Foundries AG is rolling out a ...
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October 2, 2008 - Industry News
Creditors to sell Hynix stake
The Korea Exchange Bank (KEB) plans to sell its combined 36 percent stake that it holds with eight other companies in the chip maker, according ...
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October 2, 2008 - Industry News
ASMI names inspection gear unit buyer
ASM International N.V. said it has completed the sale of its majority stake in inspection gear supplier NanoPhotonics AG and, for the first ...
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October 1, 2008 - Industry News
Needham cuts '09 IC capex forecast; sees 16% dip
Needham and Co. has lowered its forecast for 2009 worldwide semiconductor capital expenditures, saying it now believes capex will be ...
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October 1, 2008 - Industry News
IBM questions TSMC's 28-nm strategy
An IBM Corp. executive questioned the new 28-nm process rollout from rival Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (TSMC), saying ...
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September 29, 2008 - Industry News
Buzz: Is AMD dropping 'Bobcat' project?
Rumors are running rampant that Advanced Micro Devices Inc. has dropped its "Bobcat" processor project. The processor is expected to compete ...
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