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Kawasaki shelves plan for robot plant: paper
[robot] [semiconductor] [memory]
In the semiconductor industry, orders for Japanese chip-making equipment fell 45 percent in May as memory chip makers maintain a cautious stance on capital investments after sharp price falls....
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Engineers show nanotube circuits can be made en masse
[semiconductor] [wafer] [integrated circuit] [transistors] [logic] [VLSI] [high performance]
The engineers unveiled a method for making integrated circuit chips with complex nanotube components on the scale and with the parallelism that the semiconductor industry must employ to make chips that are economical. ... Engineers show nanotube circuits can be made en masse...
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CE Basics
[semiconductor]
Circuit Edit (CE) using focused ion beam (FIB) tools may be a common practice at the big semiconductor companies, but many more fabs and design companies could stand to benefit from this practice. ...
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Reduced capex: The new power play
[semiconductor] [memory] [wafer] [AMD]
The semiconductor industry has matured by most measures. ... Equipment and materials suppliers are being asked to push R&D of 45 and 32nm process development, while also working on 450mm development, even while their revenues are being cut back due to reduced capital spending....
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Innovative refractive optics for exposure tool illumination
[semiconductors] [lithography] [simulation] [wafer]
Since no etching processes are involved at all, a large range of materials, including glasses (fused silica, BK7, S-TIH53), crystals (calcium fluoride), and semiconductors (Si, Ge, ZnSe) can be processed with a sagittal depth from the micrometer to the millimeter range. ... Innovative refractive optics for exposure tool illumination...
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Cimetrix debuting latest tool control product
[semiconductor] [embedded] [simulation]
These objectives are currently the focal point of such semiconductor industry initiatives as 300mm Prime, Engineering Equipment Capabilities (EEC), Predictive and Preventive Maintenance (PPM) and Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE). ... Cimetrix debuting latest tool control product...
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EU nanotech project NEMSIC targets better sensor detection technology
[electron beam lithography] [transistors] [high performance] [low power] [lithography]
An innovative electron beam lithography machine, located at the ECS Mountbatten building at the University of Southampton, will be used to produce these devices. ... Professor Hiroshi Mizuta from the University of Southampton's School of Electronics and Computer Science (ECS), which is participating in the project, says NEMSIC targets the development and launch of the smallest sensor on the international market. ...
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Hot rods make boiling better
[integrated circuits]
More hi-tech applications could include cooling integrated circuits and computer chips, which use copper as connects. ... Researchers led by Nikhil Koratkar at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York, have discovered that lining a copper pot with copper nanorods makes water boil much more quickly. ...
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Nvidia faces product delays, lost share
[AMD] [semiconductor]
''Contrary to our earlier expectations and its previous track record, AMD has managed to ship substantial quantities of its new mid-end products into the channel shortly after product launch,'' Longbow Research semiconductor analyst Tayyib Shah, in a report. ... ''In the long run, we believe Nvidia has significantly more R&D resources to invest and should remain highly competitive across all tiers of GPU.''...
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KLA-Tencor, Lam see layoffs
[wafer inspection] [wafer]
KLA-Tencor recently acquired ADE, a supplier of silicon wafer inspection gear. ... Two fab-tool vendors, KLA-Tencor Corp. and Lam Research Corp., have separately implemented layoffs, according to reports....
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EDN on Components: UV LEDs and DIY pest control, HB LEDs, more...
[Wireless] [Semiconductor] [low power]
Visit the ON Semiconductor Power Management Knowledge Center to find energy efficient products, design ideas and solutions to your toughest design challenges. ... The explosive growth of the wireless industry is a driving force behind innovation in fields ranging from telecommunications to environmental research. ...
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Avnet looks to programmable IC market with latest acquisition
[semiconductor]
The acquisition of Source, a provider of outsourced custom programming services for ICs, represents the continuation of Avnet?s extension into adjacent service markets, as well as its efforts to create sales opportunities for its semiconductor distribution products. ... Source supports its OEM (original equipment manufacturers), contract manufacturer, and component manufacturer customers from facilities in Brazil, China, Mexico, Singapore, and the United States. ...
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Nvidia cuts estimate, expects up to $200M charge on product issue
[semiconductor] [AMD] [Intel] [high performance] [PC]
?Given degree of this miss, we believe that it may take some time for NVDA [Nvidia] to regain traction in terms of both margins and investor sentiment,? Tim Luke, a semiconductor market analyst at Lehman Brothers, wrote in a research note this morning. ... As for the present, we have switched production to a more robust die/package material set and are working proactively with our OEM partners to develop system management software that will provide better thermal management to the GPU."...
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Monolithic Power Systems claims court win in Linear case
[semiconductors] [high performance] [analog]
(MPS), a leading fabless manufacturer of high-performance analog and mixed-signal semiconductors, said Thursday that the United States District Court for the District of Delaware issued judgment that MPS did not breach its October 1, 2005 settlement and license agreement with ... According to Monolithic Power Systems, a Delaware court has found that the company had not willfully infringed the patent claims asserted by Linear against its MP1543 synchronous rectified step-up converter product....
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Lasers used to cool GaAs substrates
[semiconductor]
But a team of researchers at Technische Universität Dortmund (Dortmund, Germany) and Ruhr-Universität Bochum (Valbonne, France) have used the "reverse" effect of laser cooling to cool semiconductor material....
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Agilent high-density matrix touts automatic surge protection
[semiconductor] [signal]
Together, they enable R&D and manufacturing engineers in the aerospace/defense, consumer electronics, computers and peripherals, communications, semiconductor, and automotive industries to route low-frequency signals between stimulus, the device under test, and measurement equipment when designing high-pin-count tests....
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STATS ChipPAC purchases multiple Verigy RF test systems
[RF] [semiconductor] [wireless] [memory] [embedded]
Verigy announced that STATS ChipPAC, a service provider of semiconductor packaging design, assembly, test, and distribution solutions, has installed its Port Scale RF systems for testing highly integrated wireless RF devices. ... The addition of the Port Scale RF systems to STATS ChipPAC?s semiconductor assembly and test equipment enables multisite testing of integrated devices containing RF, mixed-signal, digital, power management, and embedded or stacked memory with the required port counts....
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