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May 8, 2008


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IC packaging houses looking to copper due to high price of gold
Taiwan-based IC packaging and testing houses Advanced Semiconductor Engineering (ASE) and Siliconware Precision Industries (SPIL) as well ...
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Flip Chip Goes 3D
Current 3D packaging solutions involve a mix of high density circuit boards with stacked ICs using wire bond interconnect. With advances ...
Advanced Packaging
Wafer shipments steady in first quarter '08
Shipments of silicon wafers worldwide declined by 1 percent during the first quarter of 2008 compared to the last quarter of 2007 according ...
EETimes
Package-on-Package Variations On the Horizon
Improvements to both the surface-mount process and PoP assembly process and materials set are becoming necessary as the industry embarks on ...
Semiconductor International
Chip designers should collaborate
With technology and economics becoming inseparable in the present-day consumer-driven market, the movers-and-shakers of the semiconductor ...
Business Standard
Solar Semiconductor ties up with US cell maker Motech
Solar Semiconductor, a rapidly growing producer of high quality photovoltaic (PV) modules, on Wednesday announced a strategic ...
Economic Times
IBM, TSMC Land Orders to Manufacture 65nm Chips for Microsoft Xbox 360
Microsoft Corp. reportedly plans to release a new version its Xbox 360 video game system code-named Jasper in August and has already ...
X-bit Labs
Indian semiconductor ecosystem changing, panelists say
Top executives from the Indian and global chip industry think the semiconductor ecosystem in the country is poised for takeoff. But ...
EETimes
Qualcomm, Foxlink partner to open dedicated mirasol MEMS fab
Qualcomm MEMS Technologies, Inc. and Cheng Uei Precision Industry Co., Ltd. announce an agreement to open a new, dedicated fabrication plant ...
Small Times
Silicon shortage prompts photovoltaic industry changes
Booming global demand for solar energy has spurred a critical shortage of polysilicon used to make Photovoltaic (PV) cells, causing PV suppliers ...
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AMD discloses 12-core server chip
Advanced Micro Devices disclosed a conservative road map for 45nm server processors using six and twelve cores through 2010. Lifting a page ...
EETimes
SEMI: Wafer shipments flat in 1Q08
Worldwide silicon wafer area shipments were roughly the same in 1Q as they were in 4Q, reflecting the industry's overall conservative ...
Solid State Technology
Axcelis Announces Financial Results for First Quarter 2008
Axcelis Technologies, Inc. (announced financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2008. The Company reported first quarter ...
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Samsung blasts into top ten foundries list
Samsung Electronics delivered 413% revenue growth in chip production in 2007, according to researchers at IC Insights. Only three of the top ...
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Demystifying the memristor
Researchers at HP Labs have solved a decades-old mystery by proving the existence of a fourth basic element in integrated circuits that ...
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3-D Interconnections On the Rise
The chip has been unchallenged as the ultimate form of electronic circuit integration since the invention of the IC. The rate of ...
Semiconductor International
Haze, Still Misunderstood, Costing Industry $1B a Year
Arguably the single largest yield detractor in the semiconductor industry, costing the industry about a billion dollars every year, ...
Semiconductor International
Producing efficient heat sinks
Tomorrow’s coolants for electronic devices and engines would come from magnetic nanofluids. And scientists at the Indira Gandhi Centre for ...
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WaferTronix to supply wafer products & consulting services
The beginning of May saw the launch of WaferTronix of Boca Raton, FL, USA. Founder and CEO Donald J. Capo said: "The company's mission is ...
WaferTronix
Hesse & Knipps Wedge Bonder Improves Cost-of-Ownership
Hesse & Knipps will be demonstrating the capabilities of the BONDJET BJ820 at the upcoming International Microwave Symposium in booth 1149 ...
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Dage wins distinguished Frost & Sullivan Award
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