Semiconductors

Air Liquide has invested nearly $70m in two industrial gas plants in North Texas to supply ultra-high purity nitrogen and oxygen to the growing electronics industry.

US manufacturing firm Applied Materials has unveiled plans to build what it says will be the world’s largest and most advanced facility for collaborative semiconductor process technology and manufacturing equipment research and development (R&D).

Imec, a Belgium-based research and innovation hub in nanoelectronics and digital technologies, has welcomed semiconductor specialists GlobalFoundries, Samsung Electronics, and TSMC to its Sustainable Technologies & Systems (SSTS) research programme.

German engineering and technology company Bosch has unveiled plans to acquire US chipmaker TSI Semiconductors to boost silicon carbide (SiC) production in California.

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...