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Samsung announces industry-first 45nm embedded flash logic process development

05/17/2013 Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., a provider of advanced semiconductor solutions, today announced th...

UC Riverside scientists discover new uses for carbon nanotubes

05/15/2013 The atom-sized world of carbon nanotubes holds great promise for a future demanding smaller and f...

EU announces achievements of three-year power microelectronics program

05/16/2013 LAST POWER, the European Union-sponsored program aimed at developing a cost-effective a...

Combo MEMS inertial sensors report brisk growth in automotive market

05/13/2013 Combo MEMS sensors for automotive applications are off to another exhilarating ride thi...

NEWS ANALYSIS & FEATURES

Printed, flexible and organic electronics sees 15.2% CAGR over the next decade

05/17/2013 The new report from IDTechEx titled "Printed, Organic & Flexible Electronics: Forecasts, Players & Opportunities 2013-2023" finds that the total market for these technolo...

STMicroelectronics announces winners of the iNEMO Design Contest 2013

05/17/2013 The winning teams successfully conceptualized, developed and built demonstrable prototypes of entirely new applications using ST's iNEMO MEMS sensor-fusion modules.

GT Advanced Technologies acquires Thermal Technology LLC

05/16/2013

GT Advanced Technologies today announced that it has acquired substantially all of the business of Thermal Technology LLC for purchase consideration.

SMIC deploys NanoYield High-Sigma for 28nm process development

05/16/2013 ProPlus Design Solutions, Inc. announced today that Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation has deployed ProPlus' NanoYield High-Sigma (HS) within its advanced technology dev...

Vishay Intertechnology enhances precision thin film chip resistor arrays

05/16/2013 Vishay Intertechnology, Inc. today announced that the company has enhanced its ACAS 0606 AT and ACAS 0612 AT precision thin film chip resistor arrays with tighter absolute tolerance, relat...

First quarter shipments of touch-screen notebook post 4.57M units, up 51.8% QoQ

05/16/2013 With Microsoft introducing Windows 8 operating system that provides the touch interface in the fourth quarter of 2012, notebook PCs with touch-screen panels were released. And this led to ...

Imec and Renesas collaborate on ultra-low power short range radios

05/16/2013

Imec and Renesas Electronics Corporation announced today that they have entered into a new strategic research collaboration at Holst Centre.

Silicon Valley foundry Noel Technologies adds advanced lithography services

05/16/2013

Foundry hires former ASML’s Keith Best as director of photolithography; tasked with driving roadmap to 0.15 microns

Yole Developpement conducts 2.5D, 3DIC and TSV interconnect patent investigation

05/15/2013 Yole Développement announced its 2.5D, 3DIC and TSV Interconnect Patent Investigation report. For this analysis of 3D packaging technology patents, more than 1800 patent families have been...

Opportunities for electronics manufacturing services in medical industry are increasing

05/15/2013 Original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) are increasingly turning to electronics manufacturing service (EMS) providers to better handle the escalating volumes of electronic content in the m...

Trends and techniques in sensor fusion to be discussed at 2013 Sensors Expo and Conference

05/15/2013

MEMS Industry Group (MIG) today announced its conference and exposition line-up for the 2013 Sensors Expo and Conference.

Global semiconductor sales outpace last year through Q1 of 2013

05/14/2013

Sales in March 2013 were up slightly compared to February 2013 and March 2012.

NeoPhotonics opens sales and R&D office in Moscow

05/14/2013

NeoPhotonics Corporation today announced the opening of a sales and R&D office in Moscow and servicing the Russian Federation and the broader eastern European market.

Chip Memory Technologies Inc. reveals unique embedded NV memory solution

05/14/2013

Chip Memory Technology Inc. (CMT), a new embedded memory technology developer, has emerged from stealth mode to reveal company details and its latest product.

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