Semiconductors

  The current proliferation of electronic devices, including smart phones, music players, tablets, and cameras has created a huge demand for semiconductor memory chips. New and more complex applications and functionality for many of these devices is adding to that demand.

Dynamic changes to R&D processes, tools, technical challenges, and funding/business models will highlight the upcoming SEMICON West 2013 (semiconwest.org) exhibition. Product displays of the latest semiconductor manufacturing technology, components, and subsystems will also be an integral part of SEMICON...

This year SEMATECH (www.sematech.org), the international consortium of leading semiconductor device, equipment, and materials manufacturers, observes its 25th anniversary. SEMATECH’s members and partners, who represent about half of the world’s semiconductor production, work to reduce the time from innovation to manufacturing through...

More than 30,000 professionals in the global technology industry are expected to descend on the Moscone Center in San Francisco this July 10–12 for the 4th annual combined SEMICON West/Intersolar North America. SEMI PV Group is...

Matheson explains why the use of hydrocarbon gases in the semiconductor industry has risen so rapidly in recent years.

In this article, writers from The Gas Review (www.gasreview.co.jp), Japan’s premiere monthly news publication covering industrial gases and energy economics in Asia, share with us the ways in which the devastating earthquake and tsunami of March 11, 2011, affected the Japanese and...