The Belgian researcher, Interuniversity Microelectronics Centre (Imec), on Wednesday singed an agreement to co-fund a new research center in Taiwan that will focus on electronic designs, components and technology solutions, particularly in semiconductors.
Spending on plants and equipment used to make semiconductors will likely rise 64 percent next year, with more than half of all spending coming from six chip makers. But 2010 spending will remain far below 2008 levels, an industry group said.
Singaporean contract chip maker Chartered Semiconductor will lay off 600 workers as the company grapples with sinking demand for semiconductors, executives announced Friday.
The U.S. Thanksgiving holiday is bringing momentary relief to weary IT investors, but forecasts of flat sales or absolute declines for semiconductors, mobile devices and online commerce mean that it will be a while before the clouds lift from the tech sector.
Sales of semiconductors in November indicate that consumer products such as LCD (liquid crystal display) TVs, digital music players and other devices sold well during the holidays, the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) said Monday.
The planned international trade agreement to fight piracy and counterfeiting could help reduce the distribution of fake semiconductors, analysts said Wednesday.
The European Commission gave German technology companies Infineon and Siemens the go-ahead Thursday to form a joint venture to produce bipolar high-power semiconductors, concluding that their combined strengths won't distort the market.
Nvidia Corp. wants to expand from its core success in selling graphics cards for desktop PCs, so the company announced Monday it will buy PortalPlayer Inc., which makes semiconductors and software for digital music players and other devices.
Four Taiwanese chip assembly companies have won preliminary government approval for investments in China, including a joint venture with Europe's NXP Semiconductors.
NXP Semiconductors, one of Europe's largest chip makers, has decided to drop out of a multiyear research alliance and plans to work more closely with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSMC), the Dutch company said Tuesday.
German chip maker Infineon Technologies AG has designed a core transceiver for a new generation of system-on-chip semiconductors that will allow consumer electronic devices, such as mobile phones and PCs, to send or receive data at high speeds over the airwaves, the company said Wednesday.
Four of Japan's biggest chip makers will work together on development of manufacturing technology for next-generation semiconductors, the companies said Tuesday.
Inventories of semiconductors used in all kinds of electronics gadgets soared faster than expected during the first three months of the year, but there's no reason to be alarmed about a chip glut, market researcher iSuppli said Tuesday.
The Taipei District Public Prosecutors Office has accused the chairman and the CEO of Via Technologies, a leading vendor of PC chipsets and other semiconductors, of copyright infringement and industrial espionage, a company executive confirmed on Monday.
With headquarters in Singapore, Chartered Semiconductors Manufacturing's U.S. sales, marketing and engineering teams log a lot of international miles and even more international calls. Trying to manage all those calls through the company's two PBXs in California and Texas was proving to be an auditing and security nightmare for Ron Yan, the company's IT manager in Milpitas, Calif., so he turned to VoIP.
Two radical data transmission ideas are being developed. One uses trions instead of electrons to transmit information, and the other replaces the silicon in semiconductors with other compounds.
Minor relief is in sight next year, when prices of memory and NAND flash will start to gradually decline. But prices will plummet big time in 2019, said Jon Erensen, research director for semiconductors at Gartner.
New light absorption techniques in semiconductors get clock rates 5,000 times quicker than current PCs. It’s one more step towards an all-light computing environment.
Apple could be developing its own power management chips, according to a report from German private bank Bankhaus Lampe. The release of the report led to a sharp drop in the shares of Dialog Semiconductors, the current supplier of these chips to the iPhone maker.
A Georgia Tech professor heralded the breakthrough as a 'Wright Brothers moment,' as a new paper details semiconductors made from a single sheet of carbon atoms.