Foundries to drive chip equipment spending growth in 2017
Equipment spending had a slow start in the beginning of 2016, but it is expected to accelerate in the second…
China steers global chip sales away from red
Month-to-month sales into all regional markets has held relatively steady, with China leading the way with 3.1% market growth.
Seoul, Hanoi to strengthen bilateral ties for IT, telco
Hanoi anticipates the cooperation with Seoul in assisting with the city’s process of construction and development in e-governance, IT and…
Can a 3D printer co-robot make ‘mass customisation’ easier?
The co-robot revolution comes along just in time for Tend.ai's purposes, since co-robots can now work alongside humans without the…
Consortium advances solutions for high-volume chip packaging
The Chip-on-Wafer (CoW) Consortium II will build on the success of the first CoW consortium to further reduce production time…
Samsung to pump $850M for Vietnam expansion
The construction arm of South Korean conglomerate Samsung Group has secured a $805 million deal to build a display module…
Job cuts loom at Micron amidst memory chip supply glut
Micron expects to save about $80 million per quarter in the next fiscal year through a combination of job cuts…
Three-way deal pushes for self-driving car industry standard
BMW, Intel and Mobileye hope to establish a big lead in the nascent self-driving car segment, but whether the deal…
‘Golden era for electric vehicles’ propels power electronics market
Vehicle hybridisation will drive the power electronics market for the foreseeable future, in what French firm Yole Developpment forecasts as…
Terahertz waves make headway in production-line inspection
Terahertz has long had a reputation of great potential for sensing situations, but progress at these frequencies has had little…