New company in semiconductor market
17 May, 2007Royal Philips Electronics has announced that Silicon Hive has been spun out as an independent company.
New standard for semiconductor industry
08 March, 2007A wide range of optical electronic devices, from laser disk players to traffic lights, may be improved in the future thanks to a small piece of semiconductor, about the size of a button, coated with aluminum, gallium and arsenic (AlGaAs).
New name for integrated circuit design and manufacturing company
05 March, 2007Integrated Electronics Solutions Pty Ltd, an Australian-based integrated circuit design and manufacturing company, has announced a new trading name for the semiconductors division.
Broad strategic alliance announced
22 February, 2007Sun Microsystems and Intel Corporation have announced a broad strategic alliance centred on Intel's endorsement of the Solaris operating system (OS) and Sun's commitment to deliver a comprehensive family of enterprise and telecommunications servers and workstations based on Intel Xeon processors.
Collaboration to accelerate development of blue phosphorescent OLED materials
22 January, 2007Idemitsu Kosan and Universal Display Corporation have announced that they have signed a non-exclusive collaboration agreement to accelerate the development of blue phosphorescent OLED materials.
Chip discovery could lead to huge energy savings
15 January, 2007The University College London (UCL) has unearthed a major discovery in the manufacture of microchips.
DNA chip used in prognosis
15 January, 2007A project led by IDIBAPS-Hospital Clinic aims to validate the IBDchip (Inflammatory Bowel Disease DNA Chip), a DNA chip that claims to be the world''s first diagnostic DNA chip.
How to stop chips 'tombstoning'
04 October, 2006There is no single process change that is a sure cure for tombstoning during soldering. Those that claim otherwise are either uninformed or trying to sell you something
Digital artwork changes to suit your mood
15 August, 2006Computer scientists from Bath and Boston have developed electronic artwork that changes to match the mood of the person who is looking at it.
Chip industry loses 'boom and bust' tag
03 August, 2006The global chip industry - now in its fifth consecutive year of expansion - appears to have shaken off the cycle of boom and bust that characterised its earlier stages, Scott Jewler, chief strategy officer for STATS ChipPAC, told the Semicon Singapore 2006 conference.
Paint-on semiconductor outperforms chips
24 July, 2006Researchers at the University of Toronto have created a semiconductor device that claims to outperform conventional chips – and they made it by painting a liquid onto a piece of glass.
IGBT or MOSFET: choose wisely
05 July, 2006 by Carl Blake & Chris Bull, International RectifierWith the proliferation of choices between MOSFETs and IGBTs, it is becoming increasingly difficult for today's designer to select the best device for an application. Here are a few basic guidelines that will help this decision-making process
Graphite may write the future for nano devices
05 June, 2006Graphite could be the basis for a new class of nanometre-scale electronic devices that have the properties of carbon nanotubes - but could be produced using established microelectronics manufacturing techniques
Companies collaborate to grow industry adoption of configurable processor technology
22 May, 2006ARC International and Toshiba Corporation have announced that they have entered into a strategic collaboration that is intended to increase the worldwide semiconductor industry's adoption of configurable technology.
Paint-on laser to rescue computer chip industry
18 April, 2006Researchers at the University of Toronto have created a laser that could help save the $200-billion dollar computer chip industry from a looming crisis dubbed the ‘interconnect bottleneck’.
