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Smartkem Wins Gold for Innovative Print Electronics Solution

SmartKem, the developer of novel materials and processes that create high resolution microelectronic components directly onto thin flexible materials, today announced that it has been awarded gold at the Venturefest 2010 Best of British Innovation Award.

28 Jun 2010

FSI to Ship ORION Single Wafer Processing System to Asia's Leading Foundry

FSI International, Inc., a leading supplier of surface conditioning equipment for microelectronics manufacturing, announced today that it has received an order for its ORION single wafer processing system from a second major semiconductor foundry based in Asia.

25 Jun 2010

SEMATECH Reports Technical Advances for Semiconductor Technologies

SEMATECH engineers reported on materials and device structures that will define next generation CMOS and non-CMOS technologies at the 2010 Symposia on VLSI Technology and Circuits, June 15-18, at the Hilton Hawaiian Village in Honolulu, Hawaii.

25 Jun 2010

Methode’s Nanoparticles-Based Conductive Ink Adheres Well on Treated Polyesters

Methode Development Company, a business unit of Methode Electronics, Inc., announces that its conductive inkjet printable ink can now print circuits directly onto treated polyesters. The ink, formulated for...

25 Jun 2010

LFoundry Purchases Atmel’s Wafer Fabrication Facility in France

Atmel® Corporation, a leader in microcontroller and touch solutions, today announced that it has completed the previously announced sale of Atmel's wafer fabrication operation located in Rousset, France to LFoundry GmbH.

24 Jun 2010

IBM Announces New Collaboration to Develop Advanced 28nm Chips

IBM, Samsung Electronics, Co., Ltd., GLOBALFOUNDRIES and STMicroelectronics said today that the four companies are collaborating to synchronize semiconductor manufacturing facilities for the production of advanced chips based on 28nm process jointly developed by IBM Technology Alliance.

From STMicroelectronics 24 Jun 2010

Silicon-Based Quantum Computer, a Breakthrough for Modern Electronics

The remarkable ability of an electron to exist in two places at once has been controlled in the most common electronic material – silicon - for the first time.

24 Jun 2010

New Method to Synthesize Organic Nanowires

Organic semiconductors are very promising candidates as starting materials for the manufacture of cheap, large area and flexible electronic components such as transistors, diodes and sensors on a scale ranging from micro to nano.

24 Jun 2010

Freescale Introduces Kinetis Series of 90nm, 32-Bit MCUs

Embarking on a new era of microcontroller (MCU) leadership, Freescale Semiconductor today announced the Kinetis family of 90 nanometer (nm) 32-bit MCUs based on the new ARM® Cortex-M4 processor.

24 Jun 2010

MunEDA's WiCkeD Solution Chosen for TSMC’s 65nm RF RDK 2.0

MunEDA's tool suite WiCkeD(TM) has been validated for TSMC’s RF Reference Design Kit (RDK) 2.0 as part of the TSMC Open Innovation Platform(TM). WiCkeD covers a wide range of topic in interactive and automatic specification-driven custom circuit design, including design centering, circuit sizing for performance and yield, performance analysis, statistical circuit analysis.

23 Jun 2010