Russian legal entities of Intel - "Intel AO" and "Intel Technologies," reported zero revenue for the fiscal year 2023, as per their financial statements. While both companies operated at a loss,…
The Chinese government has selected 8,997 industrial enterprises as “little giants”, which are eligible for preferential treatment to help the country become a stronger technological powerhouse in…
Thousands of researchers and university staff members in Japan are at risk of losing their jobs next year because of apparent loopholes in employment laws implemented a decade ago. Researchers are…
The Ministry of Industry and Trade named the key problems in the field of microelectronics. The key problems of the industry were considered a serious technological lag, dependence on foreign…
Machine vision equipment maker Intekplus will conduct equipment tests with two outsourced semiconductor assembly and test (OSAT) companies. One is an OSAT company in the US and another is in China…
Tainan’s National Cheng Kung University (NCKU) 2022 Innovative Semiconductor Summer School, the first of its kind, kicked off on Aug. 26, 2022 welcoming 55 graduate and undergraduate students from…
The largest wafers used to produce chips in the semiconductor industry are 300mm (12 inches) in diameter, 200mm being the industry standard. The diameter has increased from 100mm (4 inches) in the…
SK Siltron is planning to form a joint venture with RFHIC and Yes Power Technix that will develop technologies related to silicon carbide (SiC) and gallium nitride (GaN) semiconductors. The plan…
Samsung Electronics has begun operation of a new advanced, massive chip manufacturing line in South Korea. The new production line (P3) in Pyeongtaek, the largest chip manufacturing facility ever…
India’s oil-to-metals conglomerate Vedanta on Tuesday said the company and electronics manufacturing giant Foxconn will together set up a semiconductor and display FAB manufacturing unit in Gujarat…
The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has signed a cooperative research and development agreement with Google to develop and produce chips that…
Scientists at Cornell University have been using a modified household microwave oven to help overcome a significant obstacle to practical 2nm semiconductor production. The resulting microwave…
Yesterday at the Evercore ISI TMT conference, Intel's CEO, Pat Gelsinger, stated that Chipzilla is anticipating further market share losses to AMD through 2023. During the talk, Intel's CEO talked…
The university acquired the new electron beam lithography system through a joint proposal by researchers from the College of Engineering and Applied Science; the College of Arts and Sciences; JILA;…
Intel announced a funding award today for the Center for Advanced Semiconductor Fabrication Research and Education (CAFE) of $3 million over three years. This grant comes on the heels of Ohio State…
Apple has reportedly approved 3D NAND flash produced by Yangtze Memory Technologies Corp. and will now use it for its upcoming iPhone 14 smartphones. The move represents a strong win for YMTC and…
Onto Innovation has been slightly outgrowing KLA in inspection and metrology tools through standalone Optical Critical Dimension (OCD) tools in front-end fabrication as well as in the backend…
Cycle times in FABs are the result of utilization and capacity in relation to the x-factor and are demonstrated visually in the operating curve that shows how shorter cycle times improve throughput…
Industry sources say Japan-based semiconductor material suppliers are facing a decline in sales in the second half of the year amid weakening demand for consumer applications, but many still have…
Graphene has been hailed as a wonder material for several years now in electronics as well as other areas, including several different types of materials. In 2018, research firm McKinsey estimated…
The researchers from the Materials Department at Fraunhofer IISB have grown an aluminum nitride (AlN) crystal with a diameter of 43 mm in technology-relevant quality. For Fraunfofer IISB this result…
