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Week In Review: Semiconductor Manufacturing, Test
By Gregory Haley - 19 May, 2023 - Comments: 0

TECHCET is forecasting semiconductor precursor revenues, both for high-ƙ metal dielectrics and low-ƙ dielectrics, will increase in the second half of 2023, rebounding from the current zero percent growth rate. Wafer start volumes are expected to rebound in 2024 with expansions in 2nm and 3nm logic devices. SEMI also predicts the global slump in semiconductor sales will end this quarter, gi... » read more

NIST Releases “Vision And Strategy for the National Semiconductor Technology Center”
By Technical Paper Link - 05 May, 2023 - Comments: 0

A paper titled "A Vision and Strategy for the National Semiconductor Technology Center" was published by the U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). The paper describes how the NSTC (National Semiconductor Technology Center) will develop and safeguard chips and technologies of the future. “The NSTC will be an ambitious public-private consortiu... » read more

Week In Review: Semiconductor Manufacturing, Test
By Gregory Haley - 05 May, 2023 - Comments: 0

The global sales slump in semiconductors but may be stabilizing, according to a new report from the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA). Worldwide sales of semiconductors fell 8.7% in Q1 2023 compared to the Q4 2022, and dropped 21.3% compared to the Q1 2022. Sales for the month of March 2023 increased 0.3% compared to February 2023. Meanwhile, SEMI reports worldwide silicon wafer shipment... » read more

Week In Review: Semiconductor Manufacturing, Test
By Gregory Haley - 21 Apr, 2023 - Comments: 0

GlobalFoundries filed suit in U.S. District Court in New York against IBM, accusing it of unlawfully disclosing IP and trade secrets to IBM partners, including Intel and Rapidus, potentially receiving hundreds of millions of dollars in licensing income and other benefits. The European Union released a €43 billion ($47 billion) plan for jumpstarting its semiconductor manufacturing industry,... » read more

Week In Review: Semiconductor Manufacturing, Test
By Gregory Haley - 07 Apr, 2023 - Comments: 0

South Korea slashed chip production in February by 17.7% compared to the previous month — 41.8% year-over-year, and the sharpest drop since 2008 — according to figures from South Korea’s National Statistics Office. Inventories were up 33.5%, while exports dropped by 41.6%. China launched a security probe into U.S. memory chipmaker Micron in apparent retaliation for U.S. restrictions on... » read more

Chip Industry’s Technical Paper Roundup: Apr. 4
By Linda Christensen - 04 Apr, 2023 - Comments: 0

New technical papers recently added to Semiconductor Engineering’s library: [table id=90 /] If you have research papers you are trying to promote, we will review them to see if they are a good fit for our global audience. At a minimum, papers need to be well researched and documented, relevant to the semiconductor ecosystem, and free of marketing bias. There is no cost involved for us p... » read more

Week In Review: Manufacturing, Test
By Karen Heyman - 24 Mar, 2023 - Comments: 0

TEL announced plans to build a ¥2.2 billion ($168.2 million) production and logistics center at its Tohoku Office to increase capacity. Construction of the 57,000m² facility, which will be used for manufacturing thermal processing and single-wafer deposition systems, is slated to start in spring 2024, and expected to be completed in fall 2025. Toshiba's board voted in favor of a 2 trillio... » read more

Week In Review: Semiconductor Manufacturing, Test
By Gregory Haley - 17 Mar, 2023 - Comments: 0

Samsung announced plans to invest $230 billion (300 trillion won) over the next two decades to construct the world’s largest semiconductor manufacturing complex in South Korea’s Gyeonggi Province, reports AP. The complex will consist of five new semiconductor plants producing memory and logic chips. Chips will be the enabling engines, requiring massive investments in new technology, m... » read more

Week In Review: Semiconductor Manufacturing, Test
By Gregory Haley - 03 Mar, 2023 - Comments: 0

Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) released an interim roadmap for Microelectronic and Advanced Packaging Technologies (MPAT) that targets 10- to 15-year goals for 3D integration and multi-chiplet packaging. The roadmap is open for comments. Participants in the MPAT include AMD, IBM, Intel, Texas Instruments, Purdue University, SUNY Binghamton and the Georgia Institute of Technology. It i... » read more

U.S. Opens Funding Applications Under CHIPS Act
By Linda Christensen - 28 Feb, 2023 - Comments: 0

The 2022 Chips and Science Act provided $39 billion in federal funding to revitalize the U.S. semiconductor industry. Now, the U.S. Department of Commerce, the oversight branch for the CHIPS Act, has taken the first step in opening up applications for this funding. This initial funding opportunity focuses on applications specifically for projects to “construct, expand, or modernize commerc... » read more

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