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Santa Clara, Calif.--With the practical end of optical lithography on the horizon, the semiconductor industry is worrying over which advanced lithography technology will enable manufacturers to continue to shrink chips. […]

Pebble Beach, Calif. -- Disagreement over the Asian financial situation and the overall health of the semiconductor industry led to wide discrepancies in wafer fab equipment forecasts delivered last week. […]

Brad Mattson sees the changes in the semiconductor business, and knows they aren't all for the better. Of course, some of those changes in the semiconductor equipment industry haven't all […]

Washington, D.C.--Call it a semiconductor test's version of Beauty and the Beast--with the beast being testing--under all time to market and cost constraints--after first silicon. 'The beauty is that you […]

Nexus One manages to be both cutting-edge and cost-competitive Google Inc.'s Nexus One smartphone carries an estimated bill-of-materials cost of $174.15 and features chips from Qualcomm Inc., Synaptics Inc. and [...]

IBM Microelectronics' growing silicon foundry business has taken some hits in recent months, as high-profile customers like Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) and National Semiconductor's Cyrix subsidiary have terminated foundry pacts. […]

Ferrofluidics, which recently sold its Systems division to Kayex, a unit of General Signal, sold a second 300-millimeter silicon crystal-growing system to a customer which will be using it to […]

SAN JOSE, CA.--NationsBanc Montgomery Securities analysts Jonathan Joseph and Brett Hodess delivered a sobering note to semiconductor equipment executives at the recent Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International (SEMI) 25th annual […]

Continuing to build its momentum in the application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) market, LightSpeed Semiconductor will today introduce the 3G58406, a 406,000-gate module based array, the latest device in the […]

RF Power Products will hold a special meeting of shareholders to consider and vote upon the proposed acquisition of RF Power by Advanced Energy Industries (AEI) on Oct. 8. RF […]

Toshiba in Tokyo implemented the Rhythm supply chain planning software from i2 Technologies, Inc., Irving, Texas, to streamline connections between orders for its semiconductor devices and production. Since implementing Rhythm […]

west creek, va. -- The downturn that has had a crippling effect on the semiconductor industry for months forced two companies to place anticipated fab projects on hold last week. […]

Santa Clara, Calif. -- Speaking to an audience of about 50 at a recent dinner arranged by MicroDesign Resources, Ashok Sinha, president of Applied Materials' Metal Deposition Product business group, […]

Source Electronics added $1.5 million worth of automated IC programming equipment from Houston-based BP Microsystems. Source has provided IC programming services to its customer base since 1988 and in the […]

National Semiconductor introduced the LMC2001, the first of a planned new class of operational amplifiers 'guaranteeing' high precision over time and temperature over 10 years. The LMC2001 is designed for […]

Cypress Semiconductor Corp. and TSMC entered into an agreement whereby TSMC will manufacture Cypress's next-generation CPLD family. The new family will be based on a six-layer metal, 0.18-micron (drawn) technology. […]

Just weeks after announcing the milestone of shipping the three-millionth DragonBall microprocessor, Motorola introduced another addition to the DragonBall microprocessor family designed specifically to meet the rising demands of the […]

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp. (TSMC) validated the accuracy of Simplex Solutions' Fire & Ice extraction tools with silicon. TSMC said it found the results to be within 10 percent of […]

Poor business cited by WJ (3rd time); GaSonics (2nd time); KSA (1st time) Continued poor business conditions in the semiconductor equipment and materials businesses forced three prominent companies to announce […]

Etec, EKC chalk up impressive numbers in niche markets HAYWARD, CALIF.--It pays to call Hayward home. Okay, that may be an overstatement, but Etec Systems and EKC Technology, both corporate […]

SIA says prices slipped for last 3 months; sales lowest since 1995 SAN JOSE, CALIF.--World semiconductor sales in July dropped 1.9 percent from June to $9.66 billion, according to the […]

SANTA CLARA, CALIF.--For the first time since taking office four months ago, Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing President and CEO Barry Waite met with customers and the media on a large scale […]

LSI Logic has signed up Minolta for its DCAM-101 single-chip image processor for digital cameras. The DCAM-101 will be integrated into Minolta's Dimage EX Zoom 1500, the initial camera in […]

Burr-Brown has rolled out the VSP3000 video signal processor, which provides a three-channel charged-coupled device (CCD) or contact image sensor (CIT) signal conditioning and a 12-bit analog-to-digital conversion (ADC) for […]

seoul, korea -- Last week's long-awaited news that LG Semicon and Hyundai Electronics Industries have caved in to Korean government pressure and agreed in principle to merge their semiconductor operations […]

PMC-Sierra has begun sampling the Exact chipset for gigabit Ethernet and Fast Ethernet switching. The company also introduced two new members of the Exact chipset for low cost managed workgroup […]

AMD added a new member to its 1.8-volt-only flash memory family. The Am29SL800C 8-megabit device has read access times of 100 nanoseconds, which AMD claims makes it the industry's fastest […]

Lattice Semiconductor has plans to open a R&D center for in-system programmable (ISP) ICs in Western England. The facility is planned to be operational in early 1999 and subject to […]

Eaton Thermal Processing Systems (TPS) sold a Compact II fast ramp vertical furnace to 'a leading U.S. semiconductor manufacturer.' The system shipped at the end of June. It will be […]

Santa Clara, Calif.'s Applied Materials released the Nitride550, a single-wafer, silicon nitride CVD process. Applied said the process has been qualified for advanced logic and memory devices at customer fabs […]

ENI recently unveiled the company's 13.56MHz RF generators in the Genesis family for plasma etch, sputtering and CVD applications: the GHW-12, -25, -50 and -85. The Genesis generators feature a […]

BFGoodrich Co. recently unveiled a white sheet material specially designed to meet the semiconductor industry's needs for materials with a balance of properties related to strength, weldability and chemical resistance. […]

Technical Manufacturing Corp. (TMC) unveiled an expanded product line of vibration isolation systems at Semicon/West recently, including the new, patented Stacis 2000. TMC, which sees vibration as another form of […]

Steag Electronic Systems GmbH recently acquired the chemical mechanical planarization (CMP) business unit of the polishing company Presi, based in Grenoble, France. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. […]

ASM Europe BV, a subsidiary of ASM International BV, last week shipped the A412 dual-reactor vertical furnace for 300mm processing to several customers for evaluation. The A412 combines two vertical […]

The Security and Chip Card IC business unit of Siemens Microelectronics Inc. (SMI) is starting volume shipments of a 16-bit cryptocontroller for smart card applications. The chip -- the SLE66CX160S, […]

Texas Instruments (TI) will today roll out a Class-D audio power amplifier designed to extend battery life and reduce the size and cost of power supplies in portable systems such […]

Speed Lead -- For Today sunnyvale, calif. -- As the number of independent foundries proliferates, competition to bring product to market is intense and, in what it thinks could be […]

Outsourcing is becoming an increasingly prominent trend among semiconductor capital equipment companies. As the industry matures and companies concentrate more and more on a smaller group of core competencies, equipment […]

Canon U.S.A. began construction of a 172,000-square-foot facility in San Jose, Calif., to house its northern California operations and the new headquarters of its Semiconductor Equipment division. Canon said the […]

Semiconductor Equipment & Materials International (SEMI) applauded the recent passing in the House of Representatives of the Securities Litigation Uniform Standards Act of 1998 (H.R. 1689) to enact uniform national […]

Plasma-Therm logged the sale of a Versalock plasma processing system to Motorola for R&D activities. The system will be used to develop masks for advanced lithography techniques. 'The results obtained […]

Semitool, Inc. of Kalispell, Mont., released its HydrOzone process for post-plasma strip and post-ash cleans, organic cleans and photoresist stripping applications. The patent-pending process uses a mixture of ozone and […]

Aeroflex, Inc.'s Comstron division received additional awards from Lockheed Martin of $6.3 million to produce synthesizers and other instrument products for the Navy's Consolidated Automated Support System (CASS) tester program. […]

Semitool sues Novellus, asserts copper tool patents infringed Kalispell, Mont.--Semitool, Inc. filed a patent infringement lawsuit last week against Novellus Systems, charging that Novellus' Sabre System copper electroplating tool infringes […]

Mountain View, Calif.--TelCom Semiconductor Inc. last week said it would close its Silicon Valley fab, based here, as part of a manufacturing operations restructuring. 'We are closing our Mountain View […]

General Scanning, Inc. reported the first installation at Tucson, Ariz.-based Burr-Brown of its M310 Monolithic Trim System. Burr-Brown is a supplier of proprietary, high-performance analog and mixed-signal […]

Singapore--The decision revealed last week by Hewlett-Packard and Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing to put their joint Chartered Semiconductor Partners (CSP) $1 billion-plus joint venture foundry on hold demonstrates the strength of […]

ATMI Inc. completed its acquisition of NOW Technologies last week, following NOW shareholder approval. ATMI issued approximately 1.6 million common shares to NOW shareholders in the pooling of interests. At […]