| Spansion heads list of NOR flash suppliers
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2006-05-29 |
| Spansion LLC retained its position as the leading supplier of NOR-type flash memory in Q1, according to preliminary market-share data from iSuppli. |
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| Cornell-JEOL-Genisys upgrade nanostructure fab tech
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2007-06-06 |
| Genisys, JEOL and Cornell's Nanoscale Science and Technology Facility signs an agreement to develop direct write e-beam data preparation and electron process correction technology for nanometre-range structures. |
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| IBM researchers demo LENs
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2008-08-27 |
| IBM demonstrates electric control of the spectrum, and direction and efficiency of light-emitting nanotubes. |
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| 50nm N-type junctionless silicon FET created
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2011-02-04 |
| A team of scientists at Tyndall National Institute, University College Cork in Ireland have revealed the creation of an n-type junctionless silicon FET with a channel length of 50nm. |
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| ASML to spend Rs.13,941 crore on Taiwan R&D centre
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2006-09-27 |
| Semiconductor equipment vendor ASML Holding NV is considering spending as much as Rs.13,941 crore ($300 million) to set up an R&D centre in Taiwan, having rejected South Korea as a location, according to a Taipei Times report. |
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| Synopsys preps for 'techonomic' challenges
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2008-07-01 |
| Synopsys CEO Aart de Geus: I call the challenges "techonomic" because technology and money affect each other. |
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| Shortfall in funds stalls 450mm wafer tech
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2006-01-13 |
| Applied Materials Inc.'s president has warned that the semiconductor equipment industry is not ready to move full speed ahead and develop next-gen, 450mm tools due to a funding shortfall in the overall business. |
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| Matsushita, Renesas enter testing stage for 45nm collaboration
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2006-08-07 |
| Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd and Renesas Technology Corp. have entered the full integration testing of a 45nm SoC semiconductor manufacturing technology. |
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| Fabbrix declares collaboration with PDF Solutions
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2006-12-13 |
| Fabbrix Inc. has announced a collaboration with PDF Solutions Inc. Through a joint development project with PDF, the company hopes to further refine the technology that it claims can substantially boost yields at 65nm and below. |
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| Quantum computer performs image recognition tasks
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2007-12-31 |
| D-Wave has collaborated with Google to demonstrate image-matching quantum computers that can automatically extract information from photos and then categorise the image elements by visual similarity. |
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| Analysis: Photomask biz model is broken
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2008-10-14 |
| The business model in photomasks is shaky at best and no one can argue with the ominous trends. |
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| Globalfoundries to break ground on N.Y. fab
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2009-07-20 |
| Taking on TSMC and UMC, Globalfoundries Inc. has outlined its process roadmap and disclosed plans to break ground on its new U.S. fab. |
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| DRAM becomes more exotic
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2008-09-16 |
| Samsung plans to make a number of changes to the basic transistor design with new materials and structures for 56 nm. |
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| Self-assembling protein promises biocomputing
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2010-06-01 |
| A protein found in every cell of the human body, could become a self-assembler of future information processing systems that are smaller, faster and cheaper than today's computer circuitry. |
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| Chip market shows signs of slowdown
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2010-09-28 |
| The business climate for the semiconductor industry is deteriorating as leading indicators point to an imminent correction in the semiconductor market with DRAM as the first victim, according to an analyst. |
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| Applied's ASMI bid suggest interest in Intel
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2008-06-12 |
| Applied Materials has made an unsolicited bid to acquire a chunk of ASMI. |
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| Nanolasers aid integrated optical photonics
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2011-02-09 |
| University of California Berkeley research team has devised a technique to grow indium-GaAs nano-lasers directly on silicon substrates that they say can aid integrated optical photonics. |
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| 16,500 crore LED units to ship in 2011
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2011-04-28 |
| LED unit shipments are set to increase more than 40 per cent in 2011 and double between 2010 and 2013 with 16,500 crore shipments in 2011 fuelling niche markets for equipment. |
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| ISS: Panelists ponder on IC manufacturing fate
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2010-01-13 |
| At SEMI's Industry Strategy Symposium (ISS), panellists agreed to disagree on the fate of IC manufacturing among other issues. |
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| DRAM forecasts draw conflicting opinions
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2010-08-12 |
| DRAM supply, demand forecast divides industry players and watchers into naysayers and optimists. |
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| Consumer era spawns "gigafabs"
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2005-12-16 |
| The IC industry is eyeing super-sized foundries to build chips for consumer products. |
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| Memristors: Next big thing in memory?
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2010-04-16 |
| Memristor, the fourth passive circuit element after resistors, capacitors and inductors, waits for a killer application to get it off the ground. |
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| Five firms listed as VEU of U.S. tech exports to China
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2007-10-23 |
| The U.S. Commerce Department has designated five firms as "validated end-users" of its technology exports to China that tightens restrictions on dual-use tech exports. |
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| Tech challenges for 22-nm node
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2009-01-06 |
| Semiconductor Insights analysts came up with a list of the top 15 challenges for the 22-nm node. |
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| Magma, UMC team release verification, DFM tools for 65nm
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2007-09-24 |
| Magma has partnered with UMC to deliver a broad physical verification and DFM solution for 65nm designs. |
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| IBM, Applied, NanoCollege to co-develop 22nm process modelling
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2009-03-03 |
| IBM Corp. and Applied Materials Inc. will be working with the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (CNSE) of the University at Albany on process modelling technology for the manufacture of 22nm logic and memory chips. |
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| TSMC CEO criticizes fab-tool makers
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2006-01-12 |
| Taiwan Semiconducor Mfg Co. Ltd's chief executive took some surprising and subtle pot shots at the IC-equipment industry, urging vendors to improve their overall costs, lead times and productivity levels. |
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| Tight supply imminent in memory market
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2010-02-18 |
| Rebound in demand amongst other reasons could lead to a tight supply in the memory market. |
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| Will 2010 see SSD technology topping-out?
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2010-01-21 |
| Reliability and performance limitations of NAND flash-based SSDs in demanding enterprise applications will be addressed in 2010, according to Numonyx CTO Ed Doller, by phase-change memory. |
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| Mentor Graphics acquires Sierra Design
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2007-06-13 |
| Mentor Graphics acquisition of Sierra Design Automation provides the integration that customers need between physical design, and back-end verification and yield-enhancement. |
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