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SEMATECH names William R. Rozich chairman of the board
Jun 17, 2013
Rozich, who previously was a member of the company’s board, succeeds Michael R. Polcari, who served as chairman since November 2009. |
SEMATECH to address critical supply chain challenges and more at SEMICON West 2013
Jun 17, 2013
Through a series of lectures and workshops, SEMATECH will address R&D challenges and closing key infrastructure technology gaps from July 8–12 at SEMICON West in San Francisco, CA. |
UMC joins IBM chip alliance for 10nm process development
Jun 13, 2013
IBM and United Microelectronics Corporation, a global semiconductor foundry, today announced that UMC will join the IBM Technology Development Alliances as a participant in the group's development of 10nm CMOS process technology. |
Fab equipment spending: 23% growth for 2014
Jun 4, 2013
Fab equipment spending will grow two percent year-over-year (US$ 32.5 billion) for 2013 and about 23 to 27 percent in 2014 ($41 billion) according to the May edition of the SEMI World Fab Forecast. |
Learning the secrets of design for yield
Jun 4, 2013
Dr. Zhihong Liu, Executive Chairman of ProPlus Design Solutions, Inc., says that design-for-yield (DFY) considerations are more important than ever. And yet, we as an industry may not fully understand device modeling and its impact on DFY results. |
Precision is key to scaling below 14nm
Jun 3, 2013
In advance of the 2013 SEMICON West TechXPOTs on lithography and nonplanar transistors beyond 20nm, SEMI asked some of the speakers and industry experts to comment on the challenges they wanted to highlight. Many of the inputs focused on the need for precision in the processes used to form transi...
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GLOBALFOUNDRIES unveils plans to accelerate adoption of 20nm-LPM and 14nm-XM FinFET processes
May 31, 2013
At next week's 50th Design Automation Conference in Austin, Texas, GLOBALFOUNDRIES will unveil a comprehensive set of certified design flows to support its most advanced manufacturing processes. |
Eleven companies move up in Q1’13 top 20 semi supplier ranking
May 21, 2013
Qualcomm, TSMC, and SK Hynix each register greater than 20 percent year-over-year growth. |
Global semiconductor sales outpace last year through Q1 of 2013
May 14, 2013
Sales in March 2013 were up slightly compared to February 2013 and March 2012. |
North American Semiconductor Industry: Continuing with high levels of investments
May 9, 2013
While investments and capital spending in Asia-Pacific garner much of the attention regarding semiconductor manufacturing, spending on equipment and materials in North America has totaled more than $100 billion over the past decade as leading device manufacturers expand capacity and invest in new...
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Second phase of Nanoelectronics Research Initiative to focus on post-CMOS electronics
May 8, 2013
SRC and NIST will provide a combined $5 million in annual funding for three multi-university research centers tasked with demonstrating non-conventional, low-energy technologies that outperform current technologies on critical applications in 10 years and beyond. |
Current and future defectivity issues for equipment components and materials
May 1, 2013
The Nanodefect Center is tackling the big challenges in particle detection, characterization and mitigation for critical supply chain components and materials. VIBHU JINDAL, SEMATECH, Albany, NY |
Semiconductor industry to recognize Philip Yeo and Lee Kok Choy at SEMICON Singapore 2013
Apr 29, 2013
SEMI today announced that Philip Yeo, chairman of SPRING Singapore, and Lee Kok Choy, country manager of Micron Technology Inc. Singapore, have been voted by the SEMI Singapore Regional Advisory Board as recipients of two prestigious awards recognizing their contributions to the development and s...
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Rudolph purchases assets from Tamar Technology
Apr 29, 2013
Rudolph Technologies, Inc. announced today that it has purchased selected assets, including a patent portfolio, relating to metrology capability from Tamar Technology, Newbury Park, Calif. |
Cadence and GLOBALFOUNDRIES to improve DFM signoff for 20 and 14nm nodes
Apr 29, 2013
Cadence Design Systems, Inc. announced today that GLOBALFOUNDRIES has collaborated with Cadence to provide pattern classification data for manufacturing processes of 20 and 14 nanometers. |
