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E-Manufacturing System For Next-Generation Semiconductor Production
White Papers Next-generation semiconductor factories need to support miniaturization below 100 nm and have higher production efficiency, mainly of 300-mm-diameter wafers. To meet these requirements, Hitachi proposes solutions that will support e-manufacturing...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
India Ramps Up Semiconductor Production
News Southeast Asia and China do not need to worry about India scaling up its semiconductor production because when it does, the boost in activities will help drive the industry's long-term growth in the region, say industry observers.
[June 14, 2007, 12:10]
Semiconductor Demand Forecasts Strong
News World semiconductor production capacity rose 6.7 percent from the previous quarter, according to Semiconductor International Capacity Statistics (Sicas), which takes its data from 50 major global semiconductor makers.
[November 21, 2000, 11:20]
Semiconductor Makers Streamline With RosettaNet Standards
News Ten members of the RosettaNet consortium have begun using its standards to exchange information about manufacturing processes underway and coordinate production of semiconductor chips with suppliers. It also allows semiconductor companies to adopt...
[July 12, 2001, 15:29]
Altis Semiconductor Improves Product Quality With SAS
White Papers SAS solutions are present throughout the Altis Semiconductor production process, on four main levels: Data warehouse; Data storage and structuring; Data Mining and Users, with transit offered on the Java Web interface.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Altis Semiconductor Improves Operational Efficiency And Bolsters Strategic Development
White Papers Altis Semiconductor, formerly a production company of IBM, is a major player on the semiconductor market in Europe. Altis Semiconductor worked with Oracle Consulting to implement Oracle's PeopleSoft Enterprise applications for financial...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Cyrix 6x86MX .25 Micron First For Nat Semi Plant
News Cyrix is upping the stakes in the increasingly competitive semiconductor market after announcing that it will start volume production of its 6x86MX processor on .25 micron processing technology this summer at the National Semiconductor plant in...
[January 13, 1998, 15:47]
Via Sets Date For Pentium 4 Chipset Launch
News The Taiwan semiconductor manufacturer, the second largest chipset maker after Intel, is using both the S3 and Via brands on the new chipsets in an attempt to dodge legal trouble with Intel, motherboard makers have said.
[August 13, 2001, 15:56]
Chartered Signs AMD Deal
News The Intel rival known for its Athlon PC and Opteron server processors announced on Tuesday plans to tap Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing, a contract manufacturer, for extra chip-production capacity.
[November 9, 2004, 15:08]
Nanotechnology - Small Wonder It's Coming
Blog It's coming because it solves real problems and makes good use of all the expensive lessons we've learned refining semiconductor physics and production, and it's going away as a concept because it's going to be part of everything.
[June 25, 2008, 1:27]
IBM Teams Up With Singapore's Chartered
News Instead of building factories on their own, companies are teaming up with other semiconductor manufacturers to build plants or are outsourcing production entirely to foundries. It is becoming almost impossible for the small semiconductor makers to...
[November 27, 2002, 9:15]
Memory Standards Wage War Of Words
News The Computex computer show in Taiwan last week became a battleground between two competing formats for next-generation memory, one supported by semiconductor giant Intel, the other a less-expensive open standard.
[June 11, 2001, 11:18]
The Fight Against Tech Pollution
News And last month, Smith and his group laid into the semiconductor industry for what he says is a slothful approach to the question of the health risks -- including cancer and miscarriages -- confronting chip-production workers.
[April 26, 2002, 11:24]
Quantum Dots Lead To Entanglement Breakthrough
News Firstly, it's fabricated in a similar way to an ordinary semiconductor light emitter, and secondly it produces entangled photons on command," Dr Andrew Shields, head of the Quantum Information group at Toshiba Research Europe, told
[January 11, 2006, 17:45]
Copper A Perfect Fit For Speedy Chips
News Intel, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing, Via and Sun Microsystems, among others, have all launched their first copper wares in recent months, with volume production to follow soon. The semiconductor industry is in the midst of a massive...
[October 1, 2001, 14:32]
IBM Paves Way To 100GHz Chips
News IBM's transistor is based on a mixture of silicon and germanium, another semiconductor. See Chips Central for the latest on processors and the semiconductor industry. The device isn't the fastest transistor in the world, but it does use standard...
[June 25, 2001, 18:23]
New AMD Factory Ups The Ante Against Intel
News In the past, semiconductor makers had to run several wafers, look at the results, and then adjust the formula. Combined with factory capacity at Chartered Semiconductor that's available to AMD under an existing alliance, AMD will have a substantial...
[October 14, 2005, 11:45]
'Tennis-shoe Glue' Sticks Circuits To Chips
News If the process can eventually be used in mass production, it could help solve one of the significant problems facing semiconductor manufacturers: the cost and complexity of lithography. Semiconductor manufacturers also use a variety of polymers in...
[December 8, 2003, 7:55]
Hynix Sees Semiconductor Profits Plummet
News Samsung remained positive that semiconductor demand would increase in the second quarter of 2006 as 8Gb NAND chip production processes bring down prices, and demand for chips in mobiles increases. South Korean chip manufacturer Hynix Semiconductor...
[April 20, 2006, 13:35]
Intel Ships Dual-core Presler
News Although chip designs and novel transistor concepts often gain headlines, semiconductor producers live and die by manufacturing and much of Intel's success can be attributed to relentless advances in production.
[October 28, 2005, 8:30]
