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Semiconductors
North American Semiconductor Equipment Industry Posts August 2021 Billings
North America-based semiconductor equipment manufacturers posted $3.65 billion in billings worldwide in August 2021.
SIA Welcomes Today’s White House Meeting on Semiconductor Supply Chain
The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) today released the following statement from President and CEO John Neuffer regarding today’s meeting at the White House between Biden Administration officials and leaders in the semiconductor industry supply chain to discuss the global chip shortage and actions needed to strengthen America’s semiconductor supply chains.
IQM of Finland Places Multi-System Order for Veeco’s Atomic Layer Deposition System to Enable Next Generation Quantum Computing
Veeco Instruments Inc. today announced that IQM Finland OY, a quantum computing hardware company and a key player in Europe’s quantum ecosystem, has selected the plasma-enhanced Fiji Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) System to help drive the future of quantum computing.
Foundry Market Tracking Toward Record-Tying 23% Growth in 2021
Application processors for 5G smartphones, networking and data center processors drive growth at leading edge but demand seen across all segments.
New Optical ‘Transistor’ to Speed Up Computation Up to 1,000 times, at Lowest Switching Energy Possible
An international research team led by Skoltech and IBM has created an extremely energy-efficient optical switch that could replace electronic transistors in a new generation of computers manipulating photons rather than electrons.
DARPA Researchers Can Now Accelerate Technology Innovation Using Microchip’s Low-Power FPGA Product Families
Microchip Technology Inc. today announced it has joined the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Toolbox initiative that gives the organization’s researchers simplified open licensing opportunities with commercial technology vendors.
Time-Resolved, In-Line Airborne Particle Sensing
IPS and wireless wafer/reticle format counters can detect particulate contamination events exactly when and where they occur, with results available in real-time, or stored for later analysis.
Center for Tech Diplomacy at Purdue Welcomes Bonnie Glick as Tech Tank’s New Director
The Center for Tech Diplomacy at Purdue (CTDP) announced that Bonnie Glick will be the inaugural Director of CTDP, a first-of-its-kind “tech tank” focused on the intersection of technology and foreign policy.
How Can a Digital Twin Help Semiconductor Systems Design?
A digital twin is a virtual, extremely detailed version of a physical asset. People create them as single components and all the way up to entire factories. Doing so can let them see the impact of certain decisions before moving ahead with them in real life.
