What's happening behind the scenes in the semiconductor manufacturing industry? Read this blog by Senior Editor Ann Steffora Mutschler to find out - and chime in with your thoughts and questions. en-us http://www.edn.com/blog/450000245.html?nid=3389 Copyright 2009 Reed Business Information. Subject to its Terms of Use Sun, 22 Nov 2009 02:49:30 PST http://www.edn.com/blog/450000245/post/1970033797.html?nid=3389 After last week’s Wall Street plunge, it was a relief to receive word that all was not lost at least at Lehman Brothers as C.J. Muse, se... http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;219509080;12103198;y?http://digital.ni.com/express.nsf/bycode/exkpnt?opendocument&metc=mtxzsk National Instruments introduces PXI Semiconductor Suite, a collection of 10 new software-defined modular instruments for mixed signal chip test. View white paper to learn more. http://www.edn.com/blog/450000245/post/1240031324.html?nid=3389 These people need an award or something. How cool is Shea homes? So cool that if you buy one of their homes in California, Arizona, Florida and Was... http://www.edn.com/blog/450000245/post/1890030789.html?nid=3389 Last year at about this time STMicroelectronics disclosed that it would close three of its manufacturing operations over the next two to three year... http://www.edn.com/blog/450000245/post/1150030715.html?nid=3389 Ontario, Canada is jumping on the green bandwagon. The province is seeking to create new jobs in green industries by investing nearly $8 million in... http://www.edn.com/blog/450000245/post/1370029937.html?nid=3389 I’m starting to wonder what the real story is behind all the talk on the 450-mm wafer size. I’m here at Semicon West in San Francisco t... http://www.edn.com/blog/450000245/post/110029611.html?nid=3389 Given the poor state of the economy in the US, and with the situation likely to get worse for the semiconductor industry, companies supplying to cu... http://www.edn.com/blog/450000245/post/300027630.html?nid=3389 California’s largest electric utility Southern California Edison (SCE) is getting onboard the solar train as today it inked a deal with Pasad... http://www.edn.com/blog/450000245/post/250027425.html?nid=3389 Highlighting the news from Solar City this week was the announcement that Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates-based Masdar PV plans to invest more than... http://www.edn.com/blog/450000245/post/570027057.html?nid=3389 In just some of the solar activity for the week, I was impressed to see this story in The Hindu Business Line that the government in India wan... http://www.edn.com/blog/450000245/post/10026401.html?nid=3389 The week is starting out bright for the solar industry as SunPower Corp is saying that it has produced a full-scale, five-inch prototype solar cell... http://www.edn.com/blog/450000245/post/1620025962.html?nid=3389 According to market researchers at iSuppli Corp, the explosive global demand for solar energy has driven such a significant shortage of polysilicon... http://www.edn.com/blog/450000245/post/1290025529.html?nid=3389 Following up on its first survey last year that found 40% of respondents did not believe 450-mm wafers would ever happen, productivity management s... http://www.edn.com/blog/450000245/post/1200025520.html?nid=3389 Last October, I slammed Lehman Brothers’ downgrade of semiconductor equipment stocks, which at the time, I felt was not called for &ndas... http://www.edn.com/blog/450000245/post/790024879.html?nid=3389 In addition to its purchase of more of Intel Corp’s optical business this past week, Albuquerque, NM-based Emcore Corp inked a supply ag... http://www.edn.com/blog/450000245/post/560024456.html?nid=3389 Financial analyst Doug Freedman at American Technology Research says yes. “Semiconductors and the market have had a nice move in recent we... http://www.edn.com/blog/450000245/post/1900024390.html?nid=3389 This week, market research company iSuppli Corp said it has acquired Munich, Germany-based Wicht Technologie Consulting (WTC), a provider of market... http://www.edn.com/blog/450000245/post/1240023324.html?nid=3389 Following yesterday’s news reports that semiconductor manufacturing foundry, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC) along with fellow T... http://www.edn.com/blog/450000245/post/320023232.html?nid=3389 According to Applied Materials, it is. As 32 nm technologies ramp within the next two years, the extension of optical lithography to meet pat... http://www.edn.com/blog/450000245/post/1570022557.html?nid=3389 To support the growing semiconductor industry in India, industry organization Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International (SEMI) said today... http://www.edn.com/blog/450000245/post/950021495.html?nid=3389 In a recent blog post by EDN sister publication Semiconductor International on how IC makers are looking to cash in on “green” chips, E... http://www.edn.com/blog/450000245/post/830020683.html?nid=3389 AMD’s stock was up this morning temporarily with rumors that surfaced late yesterday that IBM might be considering a “deeper partn... http://www.edn.com/blog/450000245/post/970020297.html?nid=3389 To address demand for new turnkey solutions in the equipment intensive photovoltaic (PV) industry, Oulu, Finland-based optoelectronics materials co... http://www.edn.com/blog/450000245/post/1180019918.html?nid=3389 Vishal Shah, Lehman Brothers solar energy equity research analyst put out a report yesterday confirming my belief that the solar industry is still ... http://www.edn.com/blog/450000245/post/1600019560.html?nid=3389 The U.S. and the Great Socialist People’s Libyan Arab Jamahiriya today signed a bilateral science and technology cooperation agreement at the... http://www.edn.com/blog/450000245/post/1230019523.html?nid=3389 Based on data from the Earth Policy Institute (EPI) that solar cell production rose 50 percent in 2007, all signs are pointing to another strong ye...