| IM Flash hiring signals ramp-up for Singapore fab
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2010-04-06 |
| IM Flash Technologies LLCs has advertised dozens of jobs openings in Singapore signalling the ramp-up for the 300mm fab. |
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| Spansion: Numonyx' PCM is pure 'marketing fluff'
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2008-07-02 |
| Spansion Inc. described Numonyx' efforts in the phase-change memory arena as "marketing fluff.'' |
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| UMC develops 45nm SRAM chip
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2006-11-22 |
| United Microelectronics Corp. (UMC) has cleared a key 45nm process hurdle by producing an SRAM chip with a bit cell size of less than 0.25µm². The company plans to enter pilot production of 45nm next year. |
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| Analysis: Tessera banks on imaging, optics biz
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2009-10-13 |
| Addressing the need to for new engine for growth, Tessera ventured into the imaging and optics market in hopes to replicate its success in DRAM IP. |
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| Will the fab-tool market recover in 2009?
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2008-07-14 |
| Amid a slump in the IC industry, Gartner has once again lowered its capital spending forecasts for 2008. |
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| Samsung delays DRAM fab, buys gear
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2005-11-09 |
| Applied Materials, ASML, KLA-Tencor, Novellus and others have begun receiving a new round of semiconductor equipment orders at Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. despite the chip maker's move to delay a DRAM fab project in South Korea, according to a report from an analyst on Monday (Nov. 7 |
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| Design complexity drives EDA tool functionality
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2006-12-12 |
| During the next three years, the areas that are expected to drive growth for the EDA market are high level functional verification, ESL, DFM, RET, OPC and automotive electronics. |
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| Gauda picks SoftJin's Nirmaan for OPC acceleration tool
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2008-05-14 |
| SoftJin's Nirmaan post layout EDA software development tool gives Gauda Inc. faster time to market. |
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| TFT equipment market to reach Rs.5,267.94 crore in '07
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2006-10-11 |
| TFT array exposure equipment market is expected to reach Rs.5,267.94 crore ($1.14 billion) in 2007, and is forecast to range around Rs.4,621 crore ($1 billion) per year through 2009 according to the latest report of DisplaySearch. |
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| 'Smallest' SRAM bit cell debuts
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2008-08-20 |
| IBM Research claims to have fabricated the world's smallest SRAM bit cell measuring just 0.1µ2. |
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| Electronic nose mimics biology of smells
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2007-10-31 |
| An MIT engineer has invented an electronic nose that mimics biology through a low-cost thin-film fabrication technique that combines the best aspects of organic and inorganic materials. |
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| 3-D memristor chip unveiled
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2008-11-28 |
| Memristors technology got a boost recently from Hewlett-Packard Labs. |
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| Peek inside IBM's 300-mm fab
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2008-09-25 |
| IBM's Microelectronics Group has disclosed the inner workings of its most advanced 300-mm fab. |
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| Cadence CEO discusses emerging trends in semicon design
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2006-12-06 |
| Michael J. Fister, president and CEO, Cadence Design Systems Inc., says that's as design complexity across custom ICs, digital ICs, PCB and packaging increases, a holistic level of capabilities are now required from semiconductor design and EDA companies alike. |
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| What lies ahead for semis?
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2009-01-05 |
| Forecasters seem to have different opinions about the overall outlook for the semi market in 2009. |
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| Researchers create transistor with carbon nanotube, molecule
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2006-01-24 |
| Columbia University researchers have successfully married a carbon nanotube with an organic molecule, creating what they said is the world's first hybrid carbon-nanotube/molecular transistor. |
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| New technique to etch semiconductors!
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2011-12-27 |
| The new method, developed by a team of researchers, could push the development of high-end optoelectronic devices. |
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| Nanoelectronics market growing, says SEMI
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2005-11-15 |
| The markets for nano materials, tools and equipment for nanoelectronics totaled $1.8 billion in 2005 and is forecast to reach $4.2 billion by 2010, according to a market research report from SEMI. |
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| Report suggests nanotechnology to reduce pollution
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2007-05-03 |
| As products made with nanometer-scale materials and devices spread, a report from the Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies suggests to utilise nanotechnology to reduce pollution, conserve resources and build a "clean" economy. |
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| TSMC plays hi-k catch up
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2008-04-29 |
| TSMC reveals details on a new 32-nm road map, and appears to be playing catch up in the high-k arena. |
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| AMD moves to 45-nm with Shanghai
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2008-12-26 |
| AMD moves to the 45-nm technology node with the launch of its new Opteron server chip, code-named Shanghai. |
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| Magma Design Automation is the latest member of DFMC
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2010-08-30 |
| Magma Design Automation is the latest member of Si2's Design For Manufacturability Coalition (DFMC). |
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| Chartered secures loan to support 300mm fab
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2008-01-30 |
| Singapore's Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing has secured a Rs.750.09 crore ($190 million) term loan to support the phase 2 ramp of Fab 7, the company's first 300mm wafer fab. |
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| Spansion, IBM sign cross licensing deal
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2008-04-30 |
| Spansion Inc. signs a seven-year patent cross licensing agreement with IBM. |
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| IMEC, CEA-LETI unveil ePIXfab
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2008-09-04 |
| ePIXfab is a continuation of their multi-project wafer silicon photonics prototyping service. |
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| ARM announcements indicate significant impact
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2011-01-11 |
| Significant implications for the electronics industry are indicated with the recent Windows-on-ARM and ARM chips from Nvidia announcements. |
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| UMC's 65nm design sees high interest
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2006-06-27 |
| United Microelectronics Corp. it has been getting a lot of interest in 65nm designs. |
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| Intel discloses details of 45nm process
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2006-01-31 |
| Intel Corp. has disclosed the initial details of its 45nm process. Dubbed P1266, the process incorporates copper interconnects, low-k dielectrics, strained silicon and other features. |
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| 'Cleantech is going mainstream'
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2008-08-25 |
| As a market, "cleantech" is growing and expected to top Rs.1,071,461.50 crore ($250 billion) within the decade. |
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| Flash memory reaches scaling limits
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2008-12-22 |
| ''Flash memory is coming to a crossroad,'' an industry expert warned during a keynote at IEDM. |
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