Semiconductor manufacturing tech news Last update: 15 Jun 2021
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SOI Industry Consortium Joins SEMI
UCT agrees to acquire Ham-Let
Hardly any product overlapping in Nvidia's acquisition of Arm
A list of short and long term trends while semiconductor grew double digit in 2017,
Acquisition progress of Broadcom - Qualcomm - NXP, and more such news early 2018
EUV is ready for mass production of 7 nm and 5 nm semiconductor chips
Play vertical game to become successful in the semiconductor chip market
Gartner reviewed its semiconductor market forecast for year 2017, estimate to reach $400 B
Yole: 4G and 5G RF-FE market to grow from $10.1B in 2016 to $22.7B in 2022
Samsung and Apple are top buyers of semiconductors in 2016, according to Gartner
Semiconductor revenue update this week: Ambarella and Sigma Designs
A Smart city, semiconductor industry's mega-opportunity
Taiwan holds on its top position in semiconductor foundry business
Global semiconductor revenue fell by around 2% in 2015
Semiconductor chip sales down in July 2015
Wearable shipment growth: From 5.6M to 18.1M shipments in 2nd Q 2015
IOT, smart home and automotive, a safer zone for semiconductor industry
Its high risk for semiconductor vendors to depend only on few big customers
Semiconductor fab race: Intel, TSMC, Glofo, Samsung neck to neck, SMIC fast catching
Mid-year semiconductor market forecast for 2015: near flat to small growth
Semicon West: Forget microelectronics it’s not even nano let’s call it atomtronics
China goes for big in semiconductor
Gartner's global semiconductor forecast for 2015: a 2.2% growth to reach $348B
3-D semiconductor innovation by IRT Nanoelec, CEA-Leti, STMicro and Mentor
7nm test chip taped out by IBM, Globalfoundries and Samsung alliance
Semiconductor market no more cyclical, a marginal 2-3% growth in 2015
Less power consuming 65 nm semiconductor fab process by Toshiba
SOI fab news: 130nm 300mm RFSOI and 180nm SOI foundry capacity available
Globalfoundries completes acquisition of IBM semiconductor business
Wearable and IoT demand 16nm/14nm process
SMIC, TSMC and UMC race gets closer to address Asian semiconductor market
Financial and IP capital shields big semiconductor memory manufacturers
Three semiconductor companies collaborate targeting China IOT market
Micro LED arrays fabricated using IC process for head-up displays
200% increase in wearables shipments in 1Q15 compared to 1Q14
Semiconductor market, both devices and fab-equipment is no more cyclical
Survey finds 3/4th of Americans planning to buy wearable in next 6-12 months
1q2015 silicon wafer shipment grew 3.4% sequentially, as per SEMI
New company is formed to make photoresists for EUV lithography
IoT platform revenues will grow to € 2.4 billion worldwide in 2020
A mega-merger in the semiconductor equipment market failed
Printed electronics: Liquid crystal molecule that produces high-performance organic FETs
$44.3 Billion semiconductor materials market in 2014 and is growing
Larger doping molecule enhance performance of organic semiconductor
Semiconductor lithography: EUV, NIL, DSA are hot areas in 2015
Jaswinder Ahuja: IoT and its consequences of the semiconductor chip design
Freescale India's Satinder Sohi's 2015 predictions for electronics and semicon
Apple, Samsung and smart phones consume max of semiconductor output
ST's Francois Guibert's take on 2015 semiconductor market: mobile and IoT
CEA Leti presented 3D building of transistors at IEDM
3D CNT logic and RRAM memory device to outperform today's silicon chips
SCREEN Semiconductor joins imec in advanced node chip manufacturing
Finally it's Globalfoundries taking over IBM's chip fabs
Microchip's comment linked semiconductor industry correction bubble bursts
Semiconductor stock crashing! The difference between Microchip and others
GaAs device market posts record revenues in 2013, says Strategy Analytics
Semiconductor market indicator see 9.5% increase in 2Q2014
Imec to work on optical and electrical interconnecting issues of silicon photonics
ASIC market 2014 study by IC Insights
FDSOI; The only semiconductor tech to continue Moore's Law down to 10nm
Semiconductor device market: 6%+ growth forecasted for 2014
Mid-2014 semiconductor manufacturing equipment market update
Variance linked yield challenge; A tough one for the semiconductor fab experts
Small semiconductor fabs shut due to Mega and cheaper foundries
Synopsys, ST Micro and Samsung collaborate on 28-nm FD-SOI
SEMI: Photomask market increased 1% in 2013
Large-sized panel shipment up 11% in March 2014, says TrendForce
Samsung and Globalfoundries to share capacities for 14nm
Combination of graphene and silicon to drive the next wave in semiconductors
In 10 years semiconductor material market has nearly doubled
Cloud-Managed Wi-Fi market is predicted to grow from US$ 653 M to 2500M
Latest ranking of top 20 semiconductor vendors in 2013 by IC Insights
Non-IC semiconductor market is forecasted to grow by >8% in 2014
The top capex spenders in semicon industry for 2014, forecast by IC Insights
The top ten IC market segments by growth
1 Trillion devices by 2016: semiconductor everywhere and anywhere is the trend
SEMI: Silicon wafer area shipments slightly up but revenues down in 2013
Business leaders see more stable semiconductor market in future, as per a survey
EMS/ODM market to resume growth in 2014, as per IPC
Tessera to close its mems camera module manufacturing operations
FinFET, FDSOI and Suvolta's DDC working at deeper nodes
3D and 2.5 D explored in semiconductor manufacturing for its economics
Semiconductor market 2014: some bytes from experts
Innovation is the fuel for profit and so is the EDA for electronics
Connectivity anywhere and to anything to drive technology market
Symphony Teleca's tech trends forecast for 2014
Wearable device growth; a trend started in 2013 to continue bigger in 2014
Panasonic turns fablite and TowerJazz a bigger foundry player
Soitec and CEA renew material research partnership for another 5 years
Wearable devices and robots to see a notable debut in 2014
The winners of 2013 Global Semiconductor Alliance awards
TSMC awards nine outstanding semiconductor equipment and material suppliers for 2013
IoT; an ingredient to boost global economy and electronics biz in 2014
10 technology predictions for 2014 by Strategy Analytics
Semiconductor market in 2013, the year end estimation by IHS and Gartner
Global electronics market forecast: $1.74 trillion in 2017 at a CAGR of 5%
Semiconductor equipment biz to bounce back in 2014 with 23.2% growth
E-Waste is getting bigger and worse
Top 20 semiconductor suppliers in year 2013, forecast by IC Insights
InGaAs FinFET devices built on CMOS silicon
ST and Memoir collaborate to bring algorithmic memory tech on FD-SOI
Cytomorphic-semiconductor; a discipline of cell-bio and electronics
AMD, Altera, ADI are top 3 semiconductor innovators by patent metric
Revenue update from semiconductor companies in 3rd quarter of 2013
TSMC reports 20.2% up in revenues in Jan-Sept 2013
ST wins sustainability award from Cisco
Increase in collaborations for deep node semiconductor manufacturing
Benchmark Electronics acquires CTS’ EMS biz
Jordan Valley receive one more order for 14nm metrology tool
NXP Semiconductor deepens its base in Singapore
Same lithography equipment for both Si and organic semiconductor
US contributed hugely for the growth of fabless semiconductor biz
Applied Materials and TEL merger, bigger they get to smaller the node
Semi equipment forecast by Gartner: -8.5% in 2013, +14.1% in 2014
Leading-edge 28nm pure-play foundry market to triple in 2013
Plastic electronics event in Europe to focus on manufacturability
450 mm is the next path to profit for top semiconductor players
Term loan facility to Freescale rised to $800M from $300M
eASIC gets $23.5M growth capital financing
Bing Xie appointed as VP of TI's worldwide sales and marketing
imec and Veeco partner in cost-reduction of GaN-on-Si power devices
Entegris and Imec creating solutions for handling very thin wafers
Japan looses its hold on top semiconductor ranking
Vanadium dioxide explored as a very-fast switch between insulator/conductor
New materials, processes developed for SiP assembly
Supply chain initiative to connect small and big companies in US
N.American semi equipment industry posts July 2013 B-t-B of 1.0
IHS: Industrial semiconductor market register 1% growth in first Q 2013
FLIR Systems acquires Tessera's micro-optics assets
Apple's choice of chips is major factor influencing global chip biz
Taiwan's semiconductor packaging industry to benefit from 2.5/3D technologies
Silicon wafer shipments rise by 12.3% in Q2 2013
Emerson to sell 51% stake in embedded and power biz
Carlo Ferro returns to ST as CFO
Ericsson and ST complete the splitting process
Europractice IC to expand its services into MEMS and photonic technologies
“Nano2017” R&D Program Announced at STMicroelectronics’ Crolles Site
Taiwanese fables VIA reported 200% m-o-m jump in revenues
IPC: Small size EMS companies growing faster in North America
N. American semi equipment industry posts June 2013 Book-to-Bill ratio of 1.10
UMC is currently producing 28nm chip and is fast-achieving FinFET process
TowerJazz to make chips and devices for IRF for seven more years
TSMC tapes out two 20nm test chips
Cryogenic etching by Imec to protect the surface of porous ultralow-k dielectrics
Litho-Services, LLC acquires assets and property of Simax Lithography B.V.
Air Products work with SEMATECH in developing <10 nm III-V semiconductor devices
Dow Corning joins imec to help in researching 3D bonding of wafers
Toshiba to add 4th fab to make advanced NAND flash memory chips
BOE Tech buying semiconductor equipment from Applied for making display panels
ST signs agreement with Rambus to expand licenses
Altatech installs one more CVD system at Fraunhofer Research Institution
UMC to work with IBM alliance for its 10nm node tech
US Army validates SiOnyx XQE sensor performance
Silicon Photonics is up for bigger impact
IPC forecasts slow growth for electronics
TowerJazz ramp the volume production for CMOSIS’ 12-megapixel image sensor
Memristor based VLSI design innovation by Panasonic replicates human thought
Freescale appoints Krishnan Balasubramanian to board of directors
IPC: 85% of the components placed are SMT and rest 15% are PTH
China based SMIC, BIDIMC and ZDG sign JV to build deep node fab
Papers by Rambus engineer on 3D semiconductor signal and power integrity
North American EMS market size for 2013 is $69 billion, as per IPC
Shipments of touch screen panels in 2013 to rise by 34%, as per IHS
TowerJazz to make SoCs using magnetic NVM tech from Crocus
ST appoints Jean-Marc Chery as GM of embedded and Vice-Chairman of the Corp Strat Committee
New hot semiconductor material MoS2 researched for atomic scale chips
IDC predicts global semiconductor market growth of 3-4% in 2013
Synopsys reports a quarterly revenue growth of 15% in its 2nd Q 2013
ADI reports 6% q-o-q sequential revenue growth in its fiscal 2nd Q 2013
FDSOI pilot line project by 19 EU companies and led by ST is announced
X-CEO of Akros Silicon joins Exar
CEA Leti: Integrating photonic layer with CMOS circuit is ready for mass production
Top vendors of semiconductor industry in 1Q 2013 by IC Insights
Semiconductor suppliers keeping large amount of inventory in the PC supply chain
SRC and NIST fund $5 Million to develop post-CMOS electronics
Vincent Roche is the new CEO of ADI
Worldwide SATS Market grew 2.1 percent in 2012, estimates Gartner
Intersil appoints Mark Downing as Senior VP, strategy and business development
SEMI: Global semiconductor materials market decreased 2 percent in 2012
GLOBALFOUNDRIES demos TSV on a 20nm semiconductor wafer
Semiconductor revenue in 2012: fell by 2.6% as per Gartner
Top 25 semiconductor companies in 2012, ranking by IC Insights
Intel and Samsung are forecasted to lead in semicon equipment spending in 2013
Avnet to acquire RTI Holdings
Researchers explore green methods to etch patterns on semiconductor wafer
Renesas to transfer its back-end facilities and others to J-Devices
Semtech grew 20.4% by sales revenue
Ambarella register a annual growth rate of 24.5%
Total semiconductor revenue in 2013 from automotive infotainment to reach $6.67 B
Diodes completes the acquisition of BCD semiconductor
MegaChips to integrate its biz ops with Kawasaki Microelectronics
Fully depleted Silicon on Insulator helps ST to hit 3GHz clock speed
LFoundry to acquire Micron fab in Italy
GLOBALFOUNDRIES enhances its 55nm LP process to support ARM’s 1.0/1.2V phy IP
10 semiconductor chip categories to exceed total IC market growth in 2013
STATS ChipPAC and UMC demo 3D test IC under open ecosystem collaboration
Spreadtrum using STATS ChipPAC’s eWLB packaging equipment
Elastic electric wires formed using polymer tubes filled with liquid metal
Detection of TSV voids in 3D stacked IC using acoustic microscopy
SEMI honors high K metal gate team of Intel
Fabless semiconductor startup Arctic Sand receives $9.6 million funding
Semiconductor biz locked into a paralyzing state of anxiety, says industry expert
Electronics industry market research services from IPC
Year 2012: 28nm super success and 14nm and 16nm are ready for big in 2013
The tricky semiconductor market is tough nut to crack for market analysts
Gartner: Semiconductor chip fab equipment spending to fall by 9.7 percent in 2013
ST readies 28nm FD SoI fab to compete better in convergence market
Semiconductor tops the top-100 innovators by Thomson Reuters for 2012
Top 5 semiconductor markets 2012: Comp, Comm, Cons, Auto, and Industrial electronics
The market and technology trends indicated by Renesas going fablite
ISMI award to Renesas’ former director for recovering fab site from nature’s disaster
Researchers create contacts on semiconductor chip by self-assembly process
Ink jet printing technique by Ricoh to make electronic components out of PZT
Bond via array technology for 3D semiconductor packaging by Invensas
3D Semiconductor and silicon-photonics research jointly by CEA-Leti ST and Mentor
SEMI: Book-to-Bill Ratio of 1.10 posted in April 2012 by N.A. semicon equipment industry
Semiconductor tech: Samsung researchers develop Graphene-Silicon Schottky switch
IHS alerts about alarming growth of counterfeit parts
Semiconductor metamaterial AZO can be metal at one voltage and dielectric at other
Top 20-semiconductor vendor ranking update in 1q2012: revenues down by 4%
Silicon wafer shipments of 1st quarter 2012 has slightly increased, says SEMI
Advanced power semiconductor packaging tech display by IR at PCIM 2012 event
3D chip stacking at 20nm enabled by GLOBALFOUNDRIES Fab 8
Global semiconductor market forecast 2012: Gartner; 4%, iSuppli; 4.3%, IDC; 6-7%
Advanced memory and logic tech and 3D TSV by SEMATECH at VLSI Sympo
Polysilicon price may reach US$ 20/kg in 2012, predicts TrendForce
Semiconductor market to grow by 4.3% in 2012, as per updated IHS forecast
SEMI: $1.48 B orders placed in March by N.American semiconductor equipment
Toshiba to rebuild chip plant in Thailand at safer place
Malaysia and Philippines showing good signs of semiconductor industry growth
Semiconductor 2011 ranking: Intel and Samsung atop, rest all out-of-range
Top 25 fabless semiconductor ranking 2011: Spreadtrum is the star
TSMC starts phase-5 expansion of its semiconductor Fab 14
RNCOS predicts 6% growth in global semiconductor market
IHS: Counterfeit part incidents tripled in last two years
UMC certified Synopsys' StarRC extraction solution for 28-nm designs
Latest in <22nm semiconductor tech at SEMICON West event
The top ten semiconductor foundries in 2011: TSMC maintains lead
Gartner forecasts 11.6 % decline in chip fab equipment spending in 2012
TSMC and Altera collaborate in 3D chip tech
Non-IC semiconductor revenues in 2011 is $57.4B, as per estimates
IHS: Semiconductor inventories set to decline slightly in Q1
Riber and imec collaborate in making CMOS devices using compound semiconductor
Gartner ups its semiconductor revenue estimation for 2012 from 2.2 to 4%
Semicon equipment spending to steep up in 2013
Nickel Oxide as semiconductor material withstands high voltage and temp
IBM makes a prototype optical chip set operating at speeds of 1000000 MB/s
AMD's pulls its stake in GLOBALFOUNDRIES, now only a valued customer
Semiconductor technology trends in 2012 at ISSCC
Is Germanium a potential candidate to work along with Silicon in future computers?
Researchers try non-planar contacts between metal and semiconductor
Building nanoscale transistors by aligning atoms, a disruptive tech for litho equipment
IBM chip fab club to talk on deeper nodes such as 14nm on Mar 14
Maskless lithography: a better alternative in semiconductor chip fab tech
Printed electronics gaining role in more applications
Renesas sales revenue falls by 8.3% q-o-q in its 3Q2011
Mobile-device overtakes computer as top consumer of semiconductor devices
NTU Singapore buys nanotech equipmeny from AIXTRON
U.S., S.Korea, and Japan have 85.3% of semiconductor IC revenue share, as per a study
In-Stat estimates Wi-Fi chipset revenue to reach $6.1B in 2015
IHS iSuppli forecasts a slow 3.3% growth of semiconductor revenue in 2012
Electronic device buit-in into a shirt is possibe due to elastic sonductors
North America semicon equipment makers posted $1.16 billion in orders in Dec 2011
Semtech to acquire Canada based Gennum
Samsung is world's 2nd producer and consumer of semiconductor devices
In-Stat: Semiconductor revenue of $3.5B from video surveillance equipment in 2015
Graphene growing nanotech equipment from Aixtron installed at INESC MN
IBM's next path in nanotech: Atom level
Intevac sells its semiconductor mainframe tech to Brooks Automation
Semiconductor fab spending to down in 1st half and to up in 2nd half 2012
Top ten technology trends related to media tablet, as per IHS iSuppli
CES 2012 is more of convergence tech than a consumer
Less semiconductor devices in stock due to flat market
Industry seeks a balanced growth of science and engineering
IHS iSuppli:Smart Meter shipments to triple from 20.5M in 2011 to 62M in 2016
Slew of steps taken by Rohm to recover fast from Thailand floods
Global semiconductor manufacturing equipment billings reached US$ 10.6B in 3Q11
Smart grid to fuel the growth of semiconductor market for next 5-6 years
Chip packaging material market to reach $25.7 Billion by 2015, estimates by SEMI
Rambus and ITRI collaborate on 3D semiconductor packaging tech
Probe-free testing of semiconductor wafers achieved by ST
ebook readers sales by units grow by 108% in 2011
TSMC expanding faster its facility for making 20nm semiconductor chips
Opportunities remain same for small companies in semiconductor business
ELECTRONICS.CA forecasts explosive growth power semiconductor devices
Advantest has shipped thousand T2000 semiconductor chip test platforms
Gartner's semiconductor market forecast for 2012 is less optimistic
Despite the odds global semiconductor revenues to reach $302 Billion in 2011
STATS ChipPAC's plant in Thailand is under suspension upto Jan 2012
Semiconductor equipment up by 151% in 2010 and 4.7% in 2011but to down by 10.8% in 2012
Forum on 6th December covering 3D semiconductor packaging tech
IC Insights: Spending on smart grid tech to reach about $100 billion in 2011
Infonetics: 2G, 3G, and 4G infrastructure market up by 8.6% from 3Q10
Imec develops 23% efficient crystalline silicon solar cells using back-contact tech
3D Semiconductor tech turns chip into cube
Toshiba to phase out production at three of its semiconductor plants
MPW semiconductor foundry services from AMS is made more extensive
B and I of BRIC is target of TowerJazz for its semiconductor fab services
Europe's SMAC to focus on 3D semiconductor tech
Amkor's acquisition talks related Toshiba's semiconductor ops in Malaysia postponed
TI, ST, Infineon are top vendors of semiconductor parts for industrial segment
Keynote subject at SEMICON Japan 2011 is 'power of Asia'
Semiconductor market to feel the pinch of global weaker economy
Applied materials' new EUVL overcomes another major hurdle in 13.5nm lithography
2011 semiconductor revenues to reach $299 billion, Gartner estimates
Adhesives from 3M for gluing semiconductor wafers vertically
Rice researchers work on highly conductive nanotube cables to replace metal cables
Invensas to demo multi-die, wirebond tech that mounts semiconductor chips upside down
Worldwide semiconductor equipment billing in 2nd Q 2011 is 1% lower than 1st Q
12 Inch semiconductor manufacturing to nearly double from 2010 to 2015
