Semiconductors

US semiconductor investments are on the rise, with over $210bn of new private investments having been announced across 19 states since spring 2020.

Atlas Copco has entered into an agreement to acquire US vacuum service provider Trillium US Inc.

The Biden-Harris Administration has launched the first CHIPS for America funding opportunity for manufacturing incentives to begin to restore the US semiconductor market.

Global semiconductor firm Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) will build its next 300-millimetre semiconductor wafer fabrication plant in Lehi, Utah, as part of a ‘historic’ $11bn economic investment for the state.

Intelligent power and sensing technologies firm onsemi has opened a $1.3bn semiconductor fabrication plant in East Fishkill, New York.

Linde has seen a record year for small on-site projects having signed 52 new projects for the supply of nitrogen and oxygen in 2022 – a 21% increase compared with 2021. The company attributed this...

Today’s semiconductor chip shortages have alarmed consumer and chip companies alike. Fabricators such as Intel, Micron, Texas Instruments, GlobalFoundries, and others continue to battle the fight between needing to increase production and a strained supply-chain....

Air Liquide will invest €500m ($492m) in three new state-of-the-art plants for the semiconductor sector in Taiwan, with the first set to be operational in 2024.

Google has joined forces with the US Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to help drive new nanotechnology and semiconductor device innovations.