PhotonDelta, a cross-border ecosystem of photonic chip technology organizations, has, subject to conditions, secured €1.1 billion in public and private investment to transform the Netherlands into the leader of the next generation of semiconductors.
Semiconductors
Covalent Metrology Expands its Electron Microscopy Capabilities
Covalent Metrology, a provider of analytical services in North America, announces the installation of two new Thermo Fisher Scientific Helios 5 UC DualBeam focused-ion-beam scanning electron microscopes (FIB-SEMs).
Keysight Enables SK hynix to Speed Semiconductor Memory Technology Development
Memory chip maker uses Keysight’s integrated PCIe test solutions to validate Compute Express Link (CXL) technology.
Graphene-hBN Breakthrough to Spur New LEDs, Quantum Computing
Study uncovers first method for producing high-quality, wafer-scale, single-layer hexagonal boron nitride.
Chinese Companies Hold Only 4% of Global IC Marketshare
U.S. companies captured 54% of the total worldwide IC market in 2021, propelled by a 47% share of IDM sales and a 68% share of fabless sales.
New Polymer Materials Make Fabricating Optical Interconnects Easier
New technology poised to make silicon photonics more practical, which could boost efficiency of Internet data centers.
2021 Global Semiconductor Equipment Sales Surge 44% to Industry Record $102.6 Billion, SEMI Reports
Worldwide sales of semiconductor manufacturing equipment in 2021 surged 44% to an all-time record of $102.6 billion from $71.2 billion in 2020.
Raxium Selects ClassOne Solstice S4 Electroplating System to Develop Advanced microLED Displays for Augmented/Virtual Reality Applications
ClassOne Technology today announced it has shipped a Solstice S4 single-wafer plating system to prominent microLED startup Raxium (Fremont, Calif.) for development and manufacture of microLED displays.
Georgia Tech to Help Define Future of Microelectronics Industry
Georgia Institute of Technology has been selected as a key collaborator in producing a roadmap for the future of advanced packaging for next generation microelectronics.
Leading Semiconductor Players to Advance Next Generation FD-SOI Roadmap for Automotive, IoT and Mobile Applications
CEA, Soitec, GlobalFoundries and STMicroelectronics have announced a new collaboration in which they intend to jointly define the industry’s next generation roadmap for FD-SOI (fully depleted silicon-on-insulator) technology.
