The European semiconductor industry is missing the point,Maria Marced,President of TSMC Europe,told Future Horizons'IEF2012 meeting in Bratislava this morning. "Europe is shifting-changing towards analogue mixed signal rather than digital ...
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Researchers based in the USA and France have created graphene nanoribbon structures with regions that have relatively large energy bandgaps of about 0.5eV [J. Hicks et al, Nature Physics, published online 18 November 2012]. Flat graphene ...
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Process control and yield management solutions provider KLA-Tencor Corp of Milpitas, CA, USA has launched its next-generation LED patterned wafer inspection tool. Designed specifically for defect inspection and 2D metrology for LED ...
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At the 2012 Fall Meeting of the Materials Research Society(MRS)in Boston at the beginning of December,Global Photonic Energy Corp(GPEC)of Medford Lakes,NJ,USA–a developer of a organic photovoltaic(OPV)technology that has research ...
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The China government is likely to impose anti-dumping and anti-subsidization tariffs on polysilicon imported from the US,EU and South Korea in January or February 2013,and this will cause China spot market prices for the material to rise ...
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China's LED chipmakers have been slowing down capacity expansion in 2012 due to market oversupply,but some firms have announced plans to invest in upstream epitaxial crystal processing. Industry sources noted that some installed equipment ...
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Tokyo Electron (TEL) has signed $252.5m agreement to acquire FSI International Tokyo Electron (TEL), a supplier of semiconductor and flat panel display production equipment, has signed $252.5m agreement to acquire US chipmaker FSI ...
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Micron also provides certain financing support for Elpida capital expenditures US based semiconductor firm Micron Technology has signed an agreement to acquire bankrupt Japanese chip maker Elpida Memory for $2.5bn, to expand its position ...
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The acquisition will boost ASML's development work on the next generation of chipmaking technology Intel will invest around $4.1bn to buy 15% of Dutch semiconductor equipment provider ASML, to help fund its research into new chip ...
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TSMC will invest €838m to acquire 5% in ASML Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has signed an agreement with Dutch firm ASML to invest €1.1bn in the latter's Customer Co-Investment Program that aims to develop new ...
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Carbon nanotubes will allow creation of nanoscale transistor devices IBM researchers have demostrated a new way of carbon nanotechnology which will help in commercial fabrication of smaller, faster and more powerful computer chips ...
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Renesola sets up representative office in Taiwan Nuying Huang,Taipei;Jackie Chang,DIGITIMES[Monday 8 October 2012]China-based solar firms hope to seek closer cooperation with Taiwan-based peers due to the anti-dumping investigations in the ...
With gold, copper or tin and special galvanizing processes, scientists are improving the function of semi-conductors and making the manufacture of microelectronic systems a child‘s play. Especially the LED industry could profit from ...
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No end in sight for polysilicon oversupply,says Solarbuzz Press release;Jackie Chang,DIGITIMES[Tuesday 2 October 2012]Despite the fact that most leading polysilicon producers have been operating at a loss,polysilicon capacity is expected to ...
Taiwan,China LED industries facing shuffle,says Epistar chairman Siu Han,Taipei;Jackie Chang,DIGITIMES[Monday 1 October 2012]The LED industry has been seeing rising sales but profitability has been decreasing in 2012.Biing-Jye Lee,chairman ...
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