HALF MOON BAY, Calif. — 2009 was a forgettable year in semiconductor equipment. Vendors were hit hard by the downturn. 2010 looks better, but fab tool makers still face a number of challenges. At SEMI ...

China’s Fab Tool Biz Heats Up There is plenty of money for investments and acquisitions, but China also has its share of challenges.

The dirty little secret behind all the powerful chips and components being produced to support modern AI functionality is ...

Fab equipment spending is on pace for a record year in 2017, and it now appears that momentum could continue into 2018. Fab tool vendors found themselves in the midst of an unexpected boom cycle in ...

HSINCHU, Taiwan--(BUSINESS WIRE)--United Microelectronics Corporation (NYSE: UMC; TWSE: 2303)(“UMC”), a leading global semiconductor foundry, today announced that its flagship Fab 12A in Tainan, ...

SINGAPORE — Just 90 days after the first chip-processing tools were installed, the silicon wafers have begun running through a new joint-venture fab set up here by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing ...

There are several unsung heroes of the fab shop. What fab tools do professional fabricators use that are not so flashy and thus get forgotten when it comes to DIY fab stories in your favorite 4x4 ...

Last year, an engineer who once worked at GlobalFoundries' Fab 8 computer chip factory in Malta made a stunning allegation. Advertisement Article continues below this ad Timothy Rizzo, 40, of ...

Research institute SERIS, metalorganics material supplier AkzoNobel and equipment supplier SoLayTec will have a three year research contract on the integration of Al2O3 into new cell concepts. Dr Bram ...

X-FAB Silicon Foundries, an analogue/mixed-signal and specialty foundry, has expanded the scope of its SubstrateXtractor tool, via which unwanted substrate coupling effects can be examined. According ...