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	LED manufacturing investment declines as industry contemplates future directions 01/18/2013 Spending on LED fab manufacturing equipment will decline 9.2% in 2013 as the industry faces weak ...
	Samsung grabs No.3 foundry spot on smartphone dominance 01/17/2013 In the ranks of top foundries, there's a new Number Three in town: Samsung, which climbed up the ...

	ISS 2013: Semiconductor leaders see massive industry transformation 01/15/2013 The rise in mobile computing, changes to the fabless-foundry model, uncertainties in te...
	Look for 4K LCDs, OLEDs at CES 01/07/2013 As the annual Consumer Electronics Show and hordes of techie enthusiasts descends over ...

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Novati to use Ziptronix bonding tech for 3D assembly

01/18/2013 Novati Technologies Inc. has licensed Ziptronix's direct bonding technologies, "direct bond interconnect" (DBI) and "direct oxide bonding (ZiBond), to offer 3D stacking...

IBM team wins Feynman Prize for scanning probe microscopy

01/17/2013 IBM Researchers won the prestigious Feynman prize given by the Foresight Group. The team was the first to produce images detailed enough to identify the structure of individual molecules, ...

World’s most complex 2d laser beamsteering array demonstrated

01/17/2013 DARPA researchers have recently demonstrated the most complex 2-D optical phased array ever. The array, which has dimensions of only 576µm x 576µm is composed of 4,096 (64 x 64) nanoantenn...

Report: "Glaring imbalances" in printed electronics venture funding

01/17/2013 Printed, flexible, and organic electronics have garnered more than $7.5 billion in venture funding from 1996-2011, though it's declined sharply since 2007. A new Lux Research report looks ...

SRC, DARPA unveil university research center network

01/17/2013 Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) announced that $194 million will be dedicated during the next five years to STARnet, whic...

GlobalFoundries adding R&D facility to NY fab campus

01/11/2013 GlobalFoundries says it plans to build a $2 billion "Technology Development Center" R&D facility at its Fab 8 campus in Saratoga County, NY, for semiconductor technology deve...

By the numbers: The rise of fabless IC sales, 1999-2010 and beyond

01/10/2013 Fabless IC suppliers saw sales rise 6% in 2012, again outperforming IDMs and the total IC market, and by 2017 fabless ICs will make up a full third of the overall market, says IC Insights.

CES 2013: The brains behind smart devices are front and center

01/09/2013

Components are prominent this year, on the main stage, and the CES exhibit floors.Todd Traylor of Smith & Associates reports.

Opinion: MEMS new product development, a sellable plan

01/09/2013

In David DiPaola's blog, he discuss the critical factors needed for success in the early stage of new MEMS product development.

SEMI approves first HB-LED standards

01/09/2013

SEMI's HB-LED Standards Committee has approved its first standard, specifying sapphire wafers used in making high-brightness light-emitting diode (HB-LED) devices.

Innovations in computational lithography for 20nm

01/08/2013 Several innovations in computational lithography have been developed in order to squeeze every possible process margin out of the lithography/patterning process. In this blog, Gandha...

Cymer hires AMAT roadmap exec to lead EUV development

01/08/2013 Klaus Schuegraf, former exec at Applied Materials responsible for the company's semiconductor products technology roadmap, will now lead Cymer's EUV engineering and development programs.

2013: Advanced chemistry moves center stage

01/04/2013

We are in an age where chemistry is center stage in the race to advance Moore’s Law and More Than Moore.

IDC: Semiconductor revenues will grow 4.9% in 2013

01/04/2013 The International Data Corporation is forecasting that semiconductor revenues worldwide will improve by 4.9% to $319 billion in 2013 and log a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 4.1% fr...

SIA: November chip sales best of the year

01/04/2013 Global semiconductor sales in November 2012 were the largest monthly tally of the entire year,according to the SIA -- and growth was especially sparkling in the North America region.

2013: Healthy revenue growth, but capex likely flat

01/04/2013 Based on current indications, capital spending would seem to be flat in 2013. However, Semico predicts healthy revenue growth this year, which may encourage more spending, particular...

SK Hynix licensing Tessera, Invensas patents

01/03/2013

Korean DRAM maker SK Hynix has entered into new eight-year patent licensing agreements with Tessera Inc. and Invensas.

2013: An economic outlook for the global IC market

01/03/2013 Predictions for 2013 show several notable trends: overall silicon area growth for 2013 should average approximately 6%; the first quarter and the second half are likely to show slower...

2013: Beyond CMOS, steady growth and accelerating change across non-mainstream chip markets

01/03/2013 Sensors and optoelectronics will continue to grow faster than the mainstream semiconductor market. We currently expect 9%-13% growth in these sectors in 2013, accompanied by rapid changes ...