Essential news, analysis, and insight for the day-to-day operation of semiconductor fab lines, foundries, and chip-assembly operations, plus the business of designing, developing, manufacturing, selling, and marketing ICs. en-us http://www.edn.com/community/47047/Semiconductor+Manufacturing.html Copyright 2010 Reed Business Information. Subject to its Terms of Use (http://www.edn.com/index.asp?layout=page&module=terms) Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:42:06 PDT http://www.reed-electronics.com/electronicnews/article/CA6722962.html?rssid=244 Thanks to the increasingly aggressive management of costs, capacity and competitive positioning, the global semiconductor business is currently more profitable than it has been at any time in the last decade, market researchers at the El Segundo, Calif. market research company said. In addition to capacity management, iSuppli believes the profitability rebound reflects a more fundamental shift in the competitive structure of the global semiconductor industry. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:00:00 PDT http://www.reed-electronics.com/electronicnews/article/CA6722726.html?rssid=244 To improve its ability to serve flat panel display and thin film solar photovoltaic customers in Asia while capitalizing on Taiwan’s location, talent pool and supply chain infrastructure, capital equipment giant Applied Materials Inc. announced Wednesday that its newly expanded Tainan Manufacturing Center in Tainan, Taiwan is now open. Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:00:00 PDT http://www.reed-electronics.com/electronicnews/article/CA6722222.html?rssid=244 With a DRAM market expected to increase 74% this year, market researchers at IC Insights now believe that the worldwide IC market will jump 27% in 2010 to $253 billion – exceeding the previous high of $234 billion reached in 2007 – and an additional 15% in 2011 to $290 billion. The market research company said too that if the January DRAM market stayed flat for the next 11 months, the 2010/2009 DRAM market would still register 61% growth. Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:00:00 PDT http://www.reed-electronics.com/electronicnews/article/CA6722001.html?rssid=244 Macroeconomic factors in 2009 dictated market conditions that were independent of the technology business therefore comparisons with 2007 and 2008 provide a more accurate depiction of 2010 semiconductor market conditions, market researchers at iSuppli believe. Mon, 08 Mar 2010 00:00:00 PDT http://www.reed-electronics.com/electronicnews/article/CA6721998.html?rssid=244 Spending by the memory and foundry markets, along with the advancement to new technology nodes will drive the semiconductor equipment segment in the first half of this year with quarterly growth slowing slightly in the second half before capacity additions start ramping up the equipment industry again going into 2011, the market research company said. Mon, 08 Mar 2010 00:00:00 PDT http://www.reed-electronics.com/eb-mag/article/CA6719936.html?rssid=244 With the industry still recovering from the recession, design tool and methodology innovation is continuing to shift to tight collaboration between semiconductor companies, EDA vendors, and foundries. Tue, 02 Mar 2010 00:00:00 PDT http://www.reed-electronics.com/electronicnews/article/CA6720662.html?rssid=244 Lack of customer demand has put a deal inked last year on hiatus between the two chip industry giants that was to have covered the porting by the Santa Clara, Calif-based chipmaker of its Atom processor CPU cores to the Taiwanese foundry's technology platform, contrasting with TSMC's announcement last month that it was speeding construction of new fabs and capacity expansions at existing fabs to meet what it described as "urgent recent increases in customer demand." Fri, 26 Feb 2010 00:00:00 PDT http://www.reed-electronics.com/electronicnews/article/CA6719365.html?rssid=244 Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have claimed a one-step process that produces both n-type and p-type doping of large-area graphene surfaces by applying a commercially available spin-on-glass material to graphene and then exposing it to electron-beam radiation. Wed, 17 Feb 2010 00:00:00 PDT http://www.reed-electronics.com/electronicnews/article/CA6718768.html?rssid=244 The first project under this agreement is designed to enable advanced, residue-free photoresist strip technologies for leading-edge processes for the 28-nm and 22-nm nodes. Thu, 11 Feb 2010 00:00:00 PDT