2013 may be another golden year for fab equipment spending,says SEMI,with growth of 17%to almost $43bn. The last two golden years were 2007 and 2011,says SEMI:"Although spending in 2012 will decline,it may still turn out to be the third ...
Tags: SEMI, NAND, DRAM, fab equipment
Top tools makers Applied Materials and Tokyo Electron are unenthusiastic about the possible transition to 450mm,reports the Wall Street Journal. Applied corporate vp Kirk Hassrjian told the WSJ that it would be difficult to convince ...
Tags: Applied Materials, Tokyo Electron, IFS 2012, TSMC, ASML
Globalfoundries is expected to buy IBM's semiconductor division,Mike Bryant,CTO of Future Horizons,told the IFS2012 meeting in London this morning. "We assume Golbalfoundries will buy IBM's semiconductor division and that Hynix/Micron ...
Tags: Globalfoundries, IBM, semiconductor, London
In conjunction with the SEMICON West 2012 event in San Francisco,CA,USA(10-12 July),nanoelectronics research center Imec of Leuven,Belgium has announced what it claims is the first realization of functional sub-100nm photonics components ...
Tags: Nanophotonics, Silicon photonics wafers, Optical lithography
Micron has won the right to negotiate exclusively to buy Elpida,according to DRAMeXchange,and the DRAM industry looks set to consolidate around three major suppliers. Micron and Elpida would collectively own 23%of the DRAM market about ...
Tags: DRAM industry, Micron, Samsung, consolidation