While prospects for the global semiconductor market look bright for this year and next, it isn’t great news for the European semiconductor companies says Future Horizons CEO Malcolm Penn. "For the first time in the history of the ...
Tags: Europeans, Semiconductor, Electrical
Worldwide semiconductor revenue is on pace to reach $336 billion in 2014, a 6.7 percent increase from 2013, and up from the previous quarter’s forecast of 5.4 percent growth, according to Gartner, Inc. Sequential growth in the ...
More than 10 China-based IC design houses and IC design service companies have placed 28nm chip orders at Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), indicating the strengthening competitiveness of China-based IC suppliers, according ...
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Hiwin comes with a bright picture for its robot shipments this year. (A Hiwin medical robot shown) Impressed by the sanguine outlook of the robot market, Chairman Eric Chuo of the Hiwin Group recently forecasted its?industrial robot ...
Tags: taiwan, Manufacturing, Processing Machinery, Robot, Machine
Altera and TSMC announced the two companies have worked together to bring TSMC's patented, fine-pitch copper bump-based packaging technology to Altera's 20 nm Arria 10 FPGAs and SoCs. Altera is the first company to adopt this technology ...
Researchers in Taiwan have produced indium gallium arsenide (InGaAs) metal-oxide-semiconductor capacitors (MOSCAPs) with low interface trap densities directly on silicon [Yueh-Chin Lin etal, Appl. Phys. Express, vol7, p041202, 2014]. InGaAs ...
The global semiconductor industry will remain promising in the second and third quarters of 2014, according to Morris Chang, chairman of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC). The production value of Taiwan’s ...
Semiconductor capital spending is on the rise and market leaders continue to make the lion's share of investment, the soon-to-be-released March Update to the 2014 McClean Report reported. In fact, Samsung, Intel, and TSMC together will ...
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TSMC Solar Ltd of Taichung, Taiwan, which was founded in May 2009 as a subsidiary of the world’s biggest silicon wafer foundry Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Inc (TSMC), has agreed for specialty PV distributor Centrosolar ...
Tags: Solar Modules, Electrical
TSMC Solar, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company's (TSMC) wholly-owned subsidiary maker of CIGS thin-film PV modules, will expand its annual production capacity from 40MWp currently to 120MWp in the fourth quarter of 2014, according ...
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Semiconductor material distributor Wah Lee Industrial is expected to see its revenues decrease within a range of 5% in the first quarter of 2014 thanks to strong sales of silicon wafers in China and rising demand for semiconductor materials ...
Tags: silicon, Semiconductor material, photoresists, chemicals
Last week nanotechnology research institute imec of Leuven, Belgium celebrated its 30th anniversary. Founded in 1984 as a non-profit organization, imec has grown to be a multi-disciplinary expertise center in the fields of semiconductor ...
Tags: FinFETs, III-V CMOS, ASML of Veldhoven, TSMC
At the IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM 2013) in Washington D.C., USA (9-11 December), nanoelectronics research institute imec of Leuven, Belgium reported the first functional strained germanium (Ge) quantum-well channel ...
Tags: FinFETs III-V CMOS, Electrical, Electronics
Guoqing Tang, China President of LED BU, Samsung, who is also Chairman of SEMI China LED Committee, gives an in depth analysis of the LED industry developments and categorization in this article. Chinese baby boomers born in the 1950s ...
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During the Strategies in Light Europe Investor Forum, TSMC discussed its phosphor-on-die approach to LEDs while Seoul Semiconductor discussed the market opportunity and homogenous substrate development. The Strategies in Light (SIL) ...
Tags: LED, SIL Europe, Strategies