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Semiconductor equipment biz to bounce back in 2014 with 23.2% growth
U.S. based Semiconductor manufacturing equipment industry body SEMI has reported the worldwide sales of new semiconductor manufacturing equipment will contract 13.3 percent to $32.0 billion in 2013. SEMI has forecasted a growth rate of 23.2% in sales for the year 2014. All the key regions such as Am
2 min readE-Waste is getting bigger and worse
Along with the economics and business benefits from the electronic industry, there is a huge growing environment problem of managing electronics waste. A newly bought personal computer and mobile phone is used for a period of an average of 3 to 5 years. When somebody replaces older PC or mobile phon
5 min readTop 20 semiconductor suppliers in year 2013, forecast by IC Insights
The well-known semiconductor market researcher IC Insights has forecasted the top 20 semiconductor suppliers for the year 2013. The list includes both pure play foundries and semiconductor vendors. Below is the market analysis points shared by IC Insights: he top-20 ranking includes three pure
5 min readInGaAs FinFET devices built on CMOS silicon
Imec has announced successful replacement of silicon fins of a CMOS finFET transistor with compound semiconductor material InGaAs fins, so that compound semiconductor (III-V) material based finFETs can be fabricated on a silicon wafer. This achievement helps in volume manufacturability of a chip i
3 min readST and Memoir collaborate to bring algorithmic memory tech on FD-SOI
STMicroelectronics has collaborated with Memoir Systems to make the revolutionary Algorithmic Memory Technology available for embedded memories in application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) and Systems on Chips (SoCs) manufactured in ST’s fully-depleted silicon-on-insulator (FD-SOI) process t
3 min readCytomorphic-semiconductor; a discipline of cell-bio and electronics
If you look at the latest semiconductor IC chip fab, it's somewhat resembles like a spaceship on the earth. The inside atmosphere is nearly disconnected from outside atmosphere. The air inside the advanced semiconductor chip fab is conditioned in such a way that dust particles of size more than 1/1
8 min readAMD, Altera, ADI are top 3 semiconductor innovators by patent metric
Thomson Reuters has published its latest "The top hundred most innovative companies in the world" . As usual the semiconductor and electronics companies have dominated the list. Around 40% of the Thomson Reuters' top hundred most innovative companies are into electronics engineering, which include
4 min readRevenue update from semiconductor companies in 3rd quarter of 2013
Fairchild Semiconductor has reported third quarter sales of $364.6 million, up 2% from the prior quarter. Intel has reported US$13.5 Billion in 3rd Quarter of 2013, 5% sequential growth in revenue compared to its second quarter of 2013. Intel has reported higher growth in its server business com
1 min readTSMC reports 20.2% up in revenues in Jan-Sept 2013
TSMC has announced its net revenues for September 2013: On a consolidated basis, revenues for September 2013 were approximately NT$55.38 billion, an increase of 0.5 percent from August 2013 and an increase of 27.6 percent over September 2012. TSMC said its revenues for January through September
1 min readST wins sustainability award from Cisco
STMicroelectronics has received the 2013 Excellence in Sustainability Award from Cisco. ST said it has won this award for demonstrating transparency and accountability for the environmental and social impacts of their operations. The distinction was awarded during Cisco's 22nd Annual Supplier App
1 min readIncrease in collaborations for deep node semiconductor manufacturing
The semiconductor manufacturing ecosystem, mainly the semiconductor equipment companies are increasingly collaborating to develop solutions for volume manufacturing of chips in the nodes of less than 14 nm and also on wafer sizes of 450mm. Semiconductor equipment manufacturer ASML and imec are e
3 min readPure play foundries are top buyers of semiconductor equipment
IC Insights has reported the total capital outlays by the Big 4 pure-play foundries are forecast to be $16.6 billion in 2013, which would represent 53% of their combined sales (Figure 1). This far exceeds the industry average of 18% capital-spending-to-sales ratio. The Big 4’s capital spending as a
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