Report: UMC benefits from TSMC 28-nm supply shortage
GSA spies venture capital investment uptick in April
SMIC gets government backing for second Beijing
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SAN FRANCISCO—
fabless semiconductor vendor Qualcomm Inc. moved to the No. 5 position among chip sellers in the first quarter, surpassing Texas Instruments Inc., among others, according to market resea ...
SAN FRANCISCO—
fabless semiconductor vendor Qualcomm Inc. moved to the No. 4 position among chip sellers in the first quarter, surpassing Texas Instruments Inc., among others, according to market resea ...
Silicon Ventures tips plan to stem
fabless VC drought
Bozotti has a dream: to turn round ST's digital problem
MANHASSET, NY -- President Barack Obama is visiting the NanoTech Complex at the State University of New York in Albany tomorrow, Tuesday, May 8 to show he is behind the goal for advanced manufacturing ...
MANHASSET, NY -- President Barack Obama is visiting the NanoTech Complex at the State University of New York in Albany tomorrow, Tuesday, May 8 to show he is behind the goal for advanced manufacturing ...
Mines and metals firm starts building Chinese MEMS wafer
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SAN FRANCISCO—The worldwide semiconductor photomask market is expected to be worth $3.35 billion in 2012, up 7 percent from 2011, according to the
fab tool vendor trade group SEMI. At $3.35 billion, t ...
SAN FRANCISCO— Fujitsu Semiconductor Ltd. will transfer ownership of an older
fab that produces microcontrollers to Denso Corp. to Japanese automotive parts supplier Denso Corp. under the terms of an ...
GlobalFoundries, Infineon, IBM, ST linked to Indian
fab plan
SAN JOSE – GlobalFoundries is installing equipment to make through-silicon vias in its
fab 8 in New York. If all goes well, the company hopes to take production orders in the second half of 2013 for 3 ...
SAN JOSE – GlobalFoundries is installing equipment to make through-silicon vias in its
fab 8 in New York. If all goes well, the company hopes to take production orders in the second half of 2013 for 3 ...
SAN FRANCISCO – It’s the beginning of the end for the
fabless model according to Mark Bohr, the man I think of as Mr. Process Technology at Intel.Bohr claims TSMC’s recent announcement it will serve j ...
LONDON – Mike Hackworth, chairman of
fabless chip company Cirrus Logic Inc. (Austin, Texas) has died aged 71 years. Hackworth was a veteran of Silicon Valley and a pioneer of the
fabless chip company ...
Time for a return to the customer-backed JV foundry
VLSI con
fab brings technology, circuits to the fore
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fab for Qualcomm but firm mulls business evolution
Qualcomm engages other foundries amid 28-nm capacity shortage
SunPower to take charge of more than $50M for plant closure
Spreadtrum, Dialog, MegaChips shine in
fabless rankings
LONDON – Leading foundry Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. has held a groundbreaking ceremony for the fifth phase of its
fab 14 giga
fab at the South Taiwan Science Park in Tainan, Taiwan.The ...
Samsung to spend $7 billion on wafer
fab in Xian, China
InvenSense names Globalfoundries, TMSC as dual-source MEMS makers
RDA buys Chinese IP to broaden cell phone offering
fab tool book-to-bill above parity for first time in 16 months
Panel sees MEMS market boom, silicon to win more slots
Chip-making equipment spend flat in 2012, says SEMI
SAN FRANCISCO—Global sales of semiconductor manufacturing equipment totaled $43.53 billion in 2011, up 9 percent from 2010, according to the
fab tool vendor group SEMI. The global wafer processing equ ...
SAN FRANCISCO—The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) said Wednesday (Feb. 29) it would cease publication of a closely watched quarterly report on chip
fab capacity utilization, one day after it ...
SAN FRANCISCO—Micron Technology Inc. will acquire Intel Corp.'s stake in two IM Flash Technologies LLC
fabs operated by the two companies for about $600 million, the companies said Tuesday (Feb. 28). ...
ISS Europe 2012 ponders 450mm wafer
fab challenges
SEMI book-to-bill improves for fourth straight month
SAN FRANCISCO--Samsung touted its new 32-nm high-k metal gate (HKMG) process at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference here Tuesday (Feb. 21), showing features it hopes might win customers ...
LONDON – Tower Semiconductor Ltd., an Israel-based foundry chipmaker that trades under the name TowerJazz, has said it has signed a binding memorandum of understanding with an unnamed Indian infrastru ...
SAN FRANCISCO—Semiconductor manufacturers closed 49
fabs between 2009 and 2011 in a paring of older capacity capable of processing 200-mm or smaller wafers, according to data from market research firm ...
Rebuilding America: Gears of U.S. manufacturing effort begin to turn
BANGALORE, India—Details of the proposed semiconductor wafer
fab to be set up in India are set to be announced by the end of the year at the latest, with talks between the federal government and inter ...
Reports: trace carcinogens found in Korean wafer
fabs
Scientists have selectively grown polymer nanowires using only irradiation with a pulsed laser, in a region limited to the area of irradiation. They also succeeded in imparting diverse functionalities
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--Globalfoundries CEO Ajit Manocha has praised his firm for what he called a “remarkable quarter” in Q411, and promised that the foundry was on track to “keep the momentum going,” ...
SAN FRANCISCO—Wafer
fab equipment spending is likely to decline in 2012 compared to 2011, but the magnitude of that decline appears a lot smaller than it did a few months ago, according to Martin Anst ...
SanDisk pauses expansion of
fab 5, will restart no sooner than July
SanDisk pauses expansion of
fab 5, will restart no sooner than July
Obama visit to Intel facility disgruntles staff told to stay home
LONDON – Si-Ware Systems Ltd., a
fabless chip and design service company, has announced its SiMOST platform for the creation of single-chip optical systems.SiMOST stands for Silicon integrated Micro O ...
SAN FRANCISCO—North America-based semiconductor equipment manufacturers posted a book-to-bill ratio of 0.88 in December, up from a final book-to-bill of 0.83 in November, according to the
fab tool ven ...
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--The Israeli government is attempting to force Intel Corp.’s hand on a decision to potentially build a new
fab in the north of the country in exchange for a one billion shekel ($ ...