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SEMI Korea Members Day: Takeaways and tech trends as Korea leads in fab investment

By sdavis September 28, 2018Blog

By Jaegwan Shim Korea is on track to top all other regions in fab investment, spending $63 billion between 2017 and 2020, with powerhouses Samsung Electronics Co. and SK Hynix…

Photonic chips harness sound waves to speed up local networks

By sdavis September 28, 2018Blog

It used to be known as the information superhighway – the fibre-optic infrastructure on which our gigabytes and petabytes of data whizz around the world at (nearly) the speed of…

Alpha and Omega Semiconductor announces new TO-leadless packaging technology for high current 400A applications

By sdavis September 28, 2018Blog

Alpha and Omega Semiconductor Limited (AOS) (Nasdaq: AOSL), a designer, developer and global supplier of a broad range of power semiconductors and power ICs, today introduced the TO-Leadless (TOLL) package in…

Solving the burden of Bourdon tubes

By sdavis September 27, 2018Blog

Mini diaphragm gauges offer a new alternative to Bourdon tubes. BY BRIAN SULLIVAN, Valin Corporation, San Jose, CA Fabs and OEMs in the semiconductor industry face a number of difficult…

Study demonstrates new mechanism for developing electronic devices

By sdavis September 27, 2018Blog

The prevalence of electronic devices has transformed life in the 21st century. At the heart of these devices is the movement of electrons across materials. Scientists today continue to discover…

Picosun-SINANO collaboration yields excellent TiN process

By sdavis September 27, 2018Blog

Picosun Group, a global provider of ALD (Atomic Layer Deposition) thin film coating solutions, and Suzhou Institute of Nano-Tech and Nano-Bionics (SINANO) report excellent quality titanium nitride (TiN) deposited with…

China forecast to account for 90% of pure-play foundry market growth in 2018

By sdavis September 26, 2018Blog

IC Insights’ September Update to The McClean Report shows that as a result of a 51% forecasted increase in the China pure-play foundry market this year (Figure 1), China’s total…

GLOBALFOUNDRIES extends FinFET offering with new features to enable tomorrow’s intelligent systems

By sdavis September 26, 2018Blog

As part of the company’s new focus on intensifying investment in differentiation, GLOBALFOUNDRIES announced today at its annual Global Technology Conference (GTC), plans to introduce a full set of new…

UIC chemical engineers first to functionalize boron nitride with other nanosystems

By sdavis September 26, 2018Blog

Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago have discovered a route to alter boron nitride, a layered 2D material, so that it can bind to other materials, like those…

U.S.-China trade war heats up with semiconductor industry caught in the middle

By sdavis September 25, 2018Blog

By Jay Chittooran U.S. Government Imposes Tariffs on $200 Billion of Goods and China Retaliates on $60 Billion of Goods Earlier this week, the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) released a 10…