Top Stories

200mm Cools Off, But Not For Long
New market opportunities, a push by SiC vendors to larger wafers and a shortage of used equipment are raising concerns across the industry.

Challenges Grow For 5G Packages And Modules
5G wireless networks drive need for new IC packages and modules.

Creating 2D Compounds
Van der Waals heterostructure becomes a building block for physicists.

Blogs

Editor In Chief Ed Sperling warns that the ongoing trade war will have lasting repercussions, and that’s not good news for the chip industry, in The Danger Of Twin Supply Chains.

Executive Editor Mark LaPedus examines a new domestic player vying for a foothold in memory, in China’s Latest Goal—More DRAMs.

Applied Materials’ Niranjan Khasgiwale proposes an integrated PVD process system for emerging memory technologies that can deposit and measure multiple materials under vacuum, in Process Control For Next-Generation Memories.

Consultant Walt Custer predicts growth will return to the electronics sectors in late 2019 or early 2020, despite uncertainty in global business conditions, in Electronics Industry Business Cycles Look Promising.