All regional markets down compared to last year, but global sales increase slightly on a month-to-month basis.
EV Group Revolutionizes Lithography With New Maskless Exposure Technology
EV Group (EVG) today unveiled MLE (Maskless Exposure), a revolutionary next-generation lithography technology developed to address future back-end lithography needs for advanced packaging, MEMS, biomedical and high-density printed circuit board (PCB) applications.
SEMI Smart Manufacturing Initiative Releases Groundbreaking Industry Benchmark Survey
The SEMI Smart Manufacturing Initiative today released the semiconductor industry’s first Benchmark Survey to assess the current implementation level of automation and control measures aimed at increasing productivity and efficiency in front-end semiconductor fabs.
Atomic ‘Patchwork’ Using Heteroepitaxy For Next Generation Semiconductor Devices
Continuous process for engineering 2D transition metal dichalcogenide (TMDC) heterostructures.
SEMI Americas and Semiconductor Digest Announce 2019 “Best of West” Award Finalists: CyberOptics, Advantest and Edwards
SEMI and Semiconductor Digest today announced finalists for the Best of West award to be presented at SEMICON West 2019, July 9-11 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco.
Smart Parking and Sensors in the Age of IoT
Poorly managed parking resources have a substantial negative impact on cities — one that has been well-documented.
Tsinghua to Enter the DRAM Business
DRAMeXchange, a division of TrendForce, says that Tsinghua Unigroup’s official statement on June 30th has revealed its newly composed DRAM group, with Diao Shijing, former director of the Electronic Information Department of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, as the group’s Chairman and Charles Kao as CEO.
Applied Materials to Acquire Kokusai Electric
Applied Materials, Inc. today announced a definitive agreement under which Applied will acquire all outstanding shares of Kokusai Electric for $2.2 billion in cash from global investment firm KKR.
AKHAN Semiconductor Appoints Vice Admiral Charles W. Moore Jr. to the Company’s Board of Directors
AKHAN Semiconductor, a technology company specializing in the fabrication and application of lab-grown, electronic-grade diamonds, announced today the appointment of Vice Admiral Charles W. Moore Jr. to its Board of Directors.
Jury Unanimously Finds Huawei Misappropriated CNEX’s Advanced Semiconductor Trade Secrets
CNEX Labs Inc., developer of a transformative architecture for solid state drive (SSD) controllers, today announced that a federal jury has found that Huawei Technologies Co. misappropriated CNEX’s trade secrets.
