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“Nano2017” R&D Program Announced at STMicroelectronics’ Crolles Site
STMicroelectronics has announced that French Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault, along with Minister for Industry Arnaud Montebourg, Minister of Higher Education and Research Genevieve Fioraso, and Fleur Pellerin, Minister Delegate attached to the Minister for Industry, with responsibility for Small a
3 min readTaiwanese fables VIA reported 200% m-o-m jump in revenues
VIA Technologies, which claims as innovator of power efficient x86 processor platforms reported a net sales for June 2013 of NT$ 851.5 million (US$ 28.38 million approximately). This is a growth of 200 % month-on-month over revenues of NT$ 284.07 million (US$ 9.47 million) in May 2013. And it is 1
1 min readIPC: Small size EMS companies growing faster in North America
In the North American EMS market, small sized companies are found to be doing well. IPC's latest study says smallest EMS companies that participate in IPC's North American EMS Statistical Program — those with less than $10 million in annual sales — have performed extremely well this year, with year
2 min readN. American semi equipment industry posts June 2013 Book-to-Bill ratio of 1.10
SEMI reports North America-based manufacturers of semiconductor equipment posted $1.33 billion in orders worldwide in June 2013 (three-month average basis) and a book-to-bill ratio of 1.10. On the worldwide bookings SEMI says: The three-month average of worldwide bookings in June 2013 was $1.33
2 min readUMC is currently producing 28nm chip and is fast-achieving FinFET process
The Taiwan based foundry beast United Microelectronics Corp (UMC) is working hard to make chips in deeper nodes. It has lost its 2nd biggest foundry ranking after the GlobalFoundries was spinned out of AMD and has acquired another big foundry Chartered Semiconductor of Singapore. UMC is now working
2 min readTowerJazz to make chips and devices for IRF for seven more years
TowerJazz and International Rectifier entering into a seven-year agreement under the terms of which TowerJazz will manufacture multiple product families for IR. “IR has enjoyed a strong relationship with TowerJazz, recognizing the company as an International Rectifier Supplier of the Year 2012 b
2 min readCryogenic etching by Imec to protect the surface of porous ultralow-k dielectrics
Imec has announced a cryogenic etching method that protects the surface of porous ultralow-k dielectrics against excessive plasma induced damages. Imec explains: As semiconductor technology scales below the 20nm node, the capacitance increases between nearby conductive portions of high-density in
2 min readTSMC tapes out two 20nm test chips
Two first 20nm test chips were taped out by semiconductor foundry TSMC, one is for FPGA maker Xilinx and the other is for Global Unichip Corporation. TSMC has a stake in Global Unichip. There are kind of a rumour-reports suggesting the Global Unichip and TSMC are working together in producing 2
2 min readSEMATECH and TNO developing standards for outgassing in IC production
SEMATECH and TNO have announced that they have established a strategic partnership aimed to enable measurement standards for establishing traceability for outgassing rates and leak rate measurement in semiconductor tools and processing. Semiconductor manufacturers are facing new contamination co
3 min readJapan, S. Korea and Taiwan share 58% of semiconductor wafer capacity, as per a study
Japan, S. Korea and Taiwan share 58% of semiconductor wafer capacity in year 2012 as per latest study by semiconductor market analyst IC Insights, you can relate this to another finding by IC Insights where the memory ICs and semiconductor foundries accounted for a combined 54% of the IC industry’s
3 min readFinFET and multiple patterning drive semiconductor equipment growth in 2014
At least there are 4 semiconductor fabs with immediate FinFET capabilities which are Intel, TSMC, Samsung and GlobalFoundries. There are other 4/5 fabs progressing faster towards finFETs. With the success of FinFET, most of the logic chip foundries got to move to FinFET process. That's the one o
3 min readAdvantest launches new test solution for complex SoCs
Advantest has announced test solution to perform massive multi-site testing of complex SoC devices and single in-line packages (SiP) with embedded power-management cores using its V93000 platform. Advantest explains test systems for mobile PMIC devices are required to conduct a very high volume
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