Globalfoundries is to build an R&D facility at its Fab 8 campus in Saratoga County,N.Y which it calls its Technology Development Center(TDC). The TDC will cost nearly$2bn,increasing the total capital investment for the Fab 8 campus to ...
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IDG News Service - Weak economies in the U.S. and Europe together with a slowdown in manufacturing in China hurt semiconductor sales during the second quarter this year, and the market will deteriorate further in the coming quarters as ...
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Researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have presented the shortest-gate working transistors yet built using III-V channels [J. Lin et al, IEDM, session 32.1]. The metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors ...
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Researchers in the USA have achieved record transconductance and cut-off frequencies for indium gallium arsenide (InGaAs) channel metal-oxide field effect transistors (MOSFETs) [D.-H. Kim et al, Appl. Phys. Lett., vol101, p223507, 2012]. ...
Back in 1960 Electronics Weekly was born into a ferment of III-V semiconductor research that within two years would produce the first practical LED. In 1960 Dr Nick Holonyak of General Electric was developing an unusual material,GaAsP,as ...
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The global billings for semiconductor manufacturing equipments declined 2% in 2Q12 Global billings for semiconductor manufacturing equipments reached $10.34bn in the second quarter (2Q) of 2012, recording a 2% decline when compared to the ...
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US companies accounted for 57% of worldwide semiconductor R&D spending in 2011 Worldwide investment on semiconductor research and development (R&D) is expected to grow by 10% in 2012 to $53.4bn compared to $48.7bn in 2011, according to IC ...
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The new programme focuses on meeting IBM's technology requirements through its partners in the Semiconductor Research and Development Alliance TEL NEXX, a subsidiary of Tokyo Electron U.S. Holdings has signed a new multi-year ...
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Even though sales of some mobile devices are booming,overall confidence in the tech sector continues to erode as economic weakness puts downward pressure on the computer market. The Nasdaq Computer Index slumped Friday afternoon,hitting ...
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Deposition equipment maker Aixtron SE of Herzogenrath, Germany says that in Q3/2012 the Suzhou Institute of Nano-tech and Nano-bionics (SINANO), China, ordered two Aixtron Close Coupled Showerhead (CCS), metal organic chemical vapour ...
AIXTRON SE today announced that the Suzhou Institute of Nano-tech and Nano-bionics (SINANO), China, has made a purchase order for two AIXTRON Close Coupled Showerhead (CCS) systems to extend the center's nitride semiconductor research. The ...
The French government is supporting the creation of a number of collaborative research programmes in areas such as 3D semiconductor research,automotive electronic systems and nanotechnologies for smartphones. At the heart of many of these ...
At its annual TECHCON technology conference in Austin,TX(at which the latest results of SRC-funded research are shared among university students,faculty and industry experts),university-research consortium Semiconductor Research Corp(SRC)of ...
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Canadian firm Meaglow has made a breakthrough on a low temperature Migration Enhanced Afterglow film growth technique to produce a thick InGaN layer with strong yellow emission, for increasing the efficiency and lowering production costs of ...
Meaglow Ltd of Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada – a privately held firm that produces a range of epitaxy equipment and MBE and MOCVD accessories, as well as providing specialized thin films to research institutes and industry - says that ...
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