EDITORS' PICKS
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Shrinking flat-panel TV market wrings out marginal growth in first quarter
05/21/2013
Bringing an end to a full year of declines, global flat-panel television shipments rose slightly ...
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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...
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NSF and SRC to fund research to create failure-resistant systems and circuits
05/21/2013
Leaders of the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Semiconductor Research Corpora...
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How Intel can enable a successful $200 PC in the age of the media tablet
05/20/2013
Can PC makers produce ultrathin, touch-screen PCs that are appealing to consumers—and t...
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MAGAZINE
BLOGS
NEWS ANALYSIS & FEATURES
Eleven companies move up in Q1’13 top 20 semi supplier ranking
05/21/2013
Qualcomm, TSMC, and SK Hynix each register greater than 20 percent year-over-year growth. |
Mouser Electronics’ president and CEO celebrates 40 years of service
05/21/2013
In 1973, Pong was cutting edge in the world of video games, music came on eight-track tapes, TV viewing was limited to three networks and Glenn Smith was a college kid who went to work par...
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Qualcomm and Samsung pass AMD in MPU ranking
05/21/2013
Slow notebook and desktop PC sales and strong growth in mobile processors for smartphones and tablet PCs continues to lower Intel's marketshare as well. |
Toshiba to start mass production of next generation NAND flash memory
05/21/2013
Toshiba Corporation today announced that the company has developed second generation 19nm process technology that it will apply to mass production of 2-bit-per-cell 64 gigabit NAND memory ...
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Imec and GLOBALFOUNDRIES collaborate to advance high-density memory technology
05/21/2013
Imec and GLOBALFOUNDRIES announced today that they have expanded joint development efforts to advance STT-MRAM (spin-transfer torque magnetoresistive random access memory) technology. |
First quarter results for graphics chip shipments: Nvidia a clear winner but bad news for Intel
05/20/2013
Jon Peddie Research (JPR) announced estimated graphics chip shipments and suppliers’ market share for 2013 Q1. The news was disappointing for Intel, but encouraging for Nvidia and for AMD ...
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Mentor and Tezzaron optimize Calibre 3DSTACK for 2.5/3D-ICs
05/20/2013
Mentor Graphics Corp. and Tezzaron Semiconductor Corp. today announced they are collaborating to integrate the Mentor Calibre 3DSTACK product into Tezzaron’s 3D-IC offerings. |
Extending optical lithography; outlook for DSA
05/20/2013
This year’s SEMICON West front-end processing TechXPOTs on lithography and transistors below 20nm will provide critical updates on how technologists are coping with the next scaling challe...
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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...
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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.
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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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VIDEOS
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Automated Test Creation for Mixed Signal IP using IJTAG
The creation of test patterns for mixed signal IP has been, to a large extent, a manual effort. To improve the process used to test, access, and control embedded IP, the new IEEE P1687 standard 1 is being defined by a broad coalition of ...
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EVENTS
2013 25th International Conference on Indium Phosphate and Related Materials (IPRM)Kobe, Japan , Japan
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May 19, 2013
- May 23, 2013
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2013 14th International Vaccuum Electronics Conference (IVEC)Paris, France , France
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May 21, 2013
- May 23, 2013
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2013 IEEE EnergytechCleveland, OH , United States
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WEBCASTS
Surface Cleaning and Preparation
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450mm Status Report
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FINANCIALS
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NEW PRODUCTS
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3M announces QDEF; to bring 50% more color to LCD devices
May 21, 2013
3M announced today it is in the final stages of scale-up for its new 3M Quantum Dot Enhancement Film (QDEF). The new film allow...
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COMSOL Multiphysics 4.3b offers new additions to simulation platform
May 16, 2013
COMSOL Inc., a multiphysics simulator software developer, recently announced the release of major new additions to the COMSOL s...
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Spectra-Physics introduces industrial picosecond laser
May 10, 2013
Spectra-Physics, a Newport Corporation brand, introduces Spirit ps 1040-10, an industrial-grade picosecond laser for precision ...
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