Qualcomm is thinking of buying 10%of the No.2 foundry UMC in order to try and secure advanced IC fabrication,according to industry rumours. Qualcomm has been the most proactive in seeking alternative sources among those customers of ...
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Specialty foundry TowerJazz(which has fabrication plants at Tower Semiconductor Ltd in Migdal Haemek,Israel,and at its subsidiaries Jazz Semiconductor Inc in Newport Beach,CA,USA and TowerJazz Japan Ltd)says that its board of directors has ...
Tags: TowerJazz, NASDAQ, Semiconductor, share split
Fujitsu is trying to sell a fab as it moves towards the fabless model. Although Japan's Nikkei newspaper says it is talking to TSMC about selling the fab, it is highly unlikely that TSMC has any interest in buying it. TSMC has repeatedly ...
Intel's triangular finfets suffer a severe performance disadvantage to rectangular finfets and a further disadvantage in respect to SOI finfets,says Professor Asen Asenov of Glasgow University who is the CEO of Gold Standard Simulations. ...
ARM+TSMC is leading Intel in process technology for highly integrated mobile SOCs,ARM's CEO Warren East tells EW. Asked if it was the aspiration of ARM's physical IP division,working with TSMC,to catch up with Intel in process,East ...
Apple is falling sharply behind Samsung in smartphones as Samsung out-shipped Apple 2-to-1 in the quarter,according to IDC. IDC estimated Samsung's Q2 shipments at 50.2m units with a market share of 32.6.Apple says it sold 26m iPhones ...
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For second-quarter 2012,RF front-end component maker and foundry services provider TriQuint Semiconductor Inc of Hillsboro,OR,USA has reported revenue of$178m,down 22%on$228.8m a year ago and down 18%on$216.7m in Q1/2012(exceeding the ...
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Power electronics device market to reach $20bn this year The total market for semiconductor devices (discretes, modules and ICs) dedicated to the power electronics industry will reach $20bn in 2012, according to the report 'Status of the ...
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Returning market for LED manufacturing equipment and strong demand for laser processing systems cheers investors. Ultratech stock reaches 15-year high Shares in the lithography and laser processing equipment firm Ultratech have reached ...
Eyelit's integrated MES software chosen by GCS to replace legacy system Eyelit Inc of Toronto,Canada,which provides manufacturing software for visibility,control,and coordination of manufacturing operations,says that ISO-certified ...
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First production order comes from Solar Junction–in which the UK-headquartered wafer foundry has a$5M equity stake. Semiconductor wafer featuring multi-junction cells The advanced semiconductor epiwafer foundry IQE is to ...
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Epiwafer foundry and substrate maker IQE plc of Cardiff,Wales,UK has announced its first major orders for concentrating photovoltaic(CPV)wafers from Solar Junction Corp(SJC)of San Jose,CA,USA,which manufactures III-V multi-junction solar ...
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US distribution deal for spectral blood sensor 03 Jul 2012 PSS World Medical to market Masimo's latest multi-wavelength spot-checker for hemoglobin,pulse rate and perfusion index. Pronto-7 oximeter Masimo Corporation,the US ...
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Nederman will supply three Aisin Takaoka foundries in China and Thailand with a range of extraction and filtration solutions in a repeat order worth more than SEK17 million. The Nederman solutions include extraction and filtration at the ...
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Ultratech recently declared the shipment of its 50th laser spike anneal(LSA)system.Of all the 50 systems,Ultratech has shipped over 15 of its flagship LSA101 systems that are capable of reaching throughputs of up to 60wph. The unique ...
Tags: Ultratech, LSA system, laser technology, lower leakage