IoT to be Key Revenue Driver
The internet of things is the most important application for driving revenue this year, according to a survey conducted by…
SMIC Rift: Who’s in Charge of China’s Chip Industry?
A write up of what we have learned about SMIC Co-CEO Haijun Zhao, because Zhao's rumored resignation has opened the…
Tsinghua Poaches Talent to Aid China’s Faltering DRAM Industry
China’s Tsinghua Unigroup, may snatch a co-CEO from Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp. (SMIC) to revive a plan to build a…
Q1 Forecast Disappointing for Foundry Sales
Semiconductor foundry revenue growth is stalling due to weak demand for advanced production processes in several end markets — including…
Fab Tool Sales Continue to Slide
Sales of semiconductor manufacturing equipment continued their steep decline in February, falling on an annual basis for the fourth consecutive…
Walden Rhines & His Affair with AI
In the last three years, starting from the third quarter of 2017 to be more accurate, all of a sudden…
Liquid Crystal Metasurfaces Used to Steer Beams
Lumotive, a Seattle-based, venture-backed startup, is unveiling Wednesday a lidar technology based on metamaterials, a relatively new and exotic technological…
Open-Source Silicon Highlights at Open Compute Project
Microsoft and partners released open-source RTL for a new data compression scheme, and Intel said that another effort may do…
Counterfeits Costing Semiconductor Industry Billions
Counterfeit components are anything but uncommon and probably, by all accounts, underreported.
Overcoming Edge Placement Error (EPE)
Edge placement error has emerged as a new challenge to good semiconductor yields, says an expert from Applied Materials who…