Second quarter 2020 global billings for semiconductor manufacturing equipment jumped 26% year-over-year and 8%, to US$16.8 billion, from the first quarter of the year, SEMI announced today in its Worldwide Semiconductor Equipment Market Statistics (WWSEMS) Report.
Imec and Ghent University Present a Smart Contact Lens Mimicking the Human Iris to Combat Eye Deficiencies
Imec, a world-leading research and innovation hub in nanoelectronics and digital technologies and CMST (an imec-affiliated research group at Ghent University), together with their partners the Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria Fundación Jiménez Díaz (Madrid, Spain) and Holst Centre (an open innovation initiative from imec and TNO, the Netherlands) today presented an artificial iris embedded in a smart contact lens.
Wafer Level Packaging Reaches New Heights
Fan-out package revenue is expected to surpass $2B by 2025 and fan-in WLCSP revenue to peak to $3B by 2025 as TSMC continues to drive the fan-out market in 5G applications.
Intel Replaces 10+ with Tweaked SuperFin Technology
Intel held their virtual 2020 Architecture Day on August 13th, hosted by Raja Koduri, and the first major topic was Process Innovations, with Ruth Brain as the presenter. Ruth started with a potted history of Intel processing, from the first strained channel at the 90-nm node to the string of 14-nm evolutions.
COVID-19 Drives Rise in Global Fab Equipment Spending, SEMI Reports
Soaring pandemic-inspired demand for chips that power everything from communications and IT infrastructures to personal computing, gaming and healthcare electronics will drive an 8% increase in global fab equipment spending in 2020 and a 13% increase in 2021, SEMI announced today in its World Fab Forecast report. Rising demand for semiconductors for datacenter infrastructures and server storage along with the buildup of safety stock as U.S.-China trade tensions intensify are also contributing to this year’s growth.
SUSS MicroTec and DELO Announce Collaboration on Imprint Lithography
SUSS MicroTec and DELO cooperate in the optimization of imprint manufacturing processes for the production of wafer-level optics (WLO). These optics are essential for emerging applications in the automotive and consumer electronics industries, among others.
AKHAN Semiconductor’s Latest US Patent Addresses Diamond Film for Consumer Electronic Displays
AKHAN Semiconductor, a technology company specializing in the fabrication and application of lab-grown, electronic-grade diamonds, announced today that it has been issued a patent by the United States Patent Office (USPTO) generally related to systems and methods for transparent diamond electronics.
Producing Technicolor Through Brain-Like Electronic Devices
Structural coloration is promised to be the display technology of the future as there is no fading – it does not use dyes – and enables low-power displays without strong external light source. However, the disadvantage of this technique is that once a device is made, it is impossible to change its properties so the reproducible colors remain fixed. Recently, a POSTECH research team has successfully obtained vivid colors by using semiconductor chips – not dyes – made by mimicking the human brain structure.
Tachyum Opens U.S., EU and NATO Government Business Unit
Tachyum Inc. today announced it is opening a business unit to serve U.S., EU and NATO member Government customers of its Prodigy Universal Processor for demanding HPC, artificial intelligence and machine learning workloads.
Inkron Invests in Augmented Reality Components Development Infrastructure
Inkron, a Nagase Group Company, the global leader of siloxane-based, optically clear Nano-Imprint Lithography (NIL) materials, makes a strategic investment in NIL materials and components development infrastructure.
