SEMICONDUCTORS

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05/01/2013
Volume 56, Issue 3

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SEMICONDUCTOR ARTICLES

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 on the desktop.

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 challenges.

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 that are priced at just $200?

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 technologies will grow from $16.04 billion in 2013 to $76.79 billion in 2023.

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 the industry’s first 45nm embedded flash logic process development called eFlash. Samsung successfully implemented the new process into the smart card test chip, which means that this process technology...

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 development flow.

HEADLINES

USPTO ISSUES TRADEMARK: TOUCHCODE

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 21 -- The trademark TOUCHCODE (Reg. No. 4333236; International Reg. No 1093496) was issued on May 14 ...

Fairchild Semiconductor Leverages Camstar Manufacturing Platform

Camstar Systems, Inc. announced that Fairchild Semiconductor, a provider of design and manufacture of power and mobile sem...

e2v technologies PLC Results for the year ended -2-

APPLIED MICRO CIRCUITS REPORTS MULTIPLE TRANSACTIONS BY VP NATARAJAN (California)

WASHINGTON, May 20 -- Applied Micro Circuits Corp. (AMCC), Sunnyvale, Calif., has filed a Form 4 with the Securities and E...

Todd's supervisor denies influencing witnesses' evidence

SINGAPORE: On day six of a coroner's inquiry into the death of American researcher Shane Todd, the contents of a meeting a...

Fujitsu Semiconductor Develops 360 Wraparound View System

FINANCIALS

TECHNOLOGY PAPERS

Rapid Defect Indentification with Layout-Aware Diagnosis

Scan logic diagnosis is a powerful tool to help failure analysis engineers determine the root cause of a failing die. Yield engineers, on the other hand, are...

Flip Chip Devices get Flat and Happy

Thin is definitely in, but what our modern flip chip devices really want is to be flat and happy! As flip chip die have become increasingly thinner in recent...
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Surface Cleaning and Preparation

This introduction requires the development of new critical and selective cleans tackling galvanic corrosion, pattern collapse both in FEOL and BEOL...

450mm Status Report

Hear from the G450C General Manager, Paul Farrar Jr., on the current status of activities, key milestones and schedules, and imec’s senior business...
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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...

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 ...

Multitest announces ecoAmp for high-power applications

May 8, 2013 Multitest announces that its ecoAmp high power Kelvin contactor successfully passed a challenging evaluation for an automotive ...

EV Group rolls out EVG120 processing system

May 7, 2013 EV Group (EVG), a supplier of wafer bonding and lithography equipment for the MEMS, nanotechnology and semiconductor markets, t...

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