California-based semiconductor equipment supplier Aviza Technology, which in June filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, has inked a deal to sell assets to Sumitomo Precision Products (SPP)...
United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC) has been working closely with customers, including FPGA specialist Xilinx, to volume produce 45/40nm products at its 300mm (12-inch) fabs,...
Taiwan should be more active in following the worldwide trend where leading economies are rushing to capitalize on renewable energy to create a green economy that will be accompanied...
Advanced Micro-Fabrication Equipment (AMEC) has obtained a ruling on a summary judgment motion it filed in its trade secret dispute with Applied Materials, according to the China-based...
Declining polysilicon prices may impact demand for amorphous silicon (a-Si) thin-film photovoltaic (PV) modules, but Applied Materials is confident of the development of thin-film...
Green Energy Technology (GET), a Taiwan-based maker of solar-grade polycrystalline silicon wafers and amorphous silicon (a-Si) thin-film photovoltaic (PV) modules, has certified its...
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has announced via a company filing with the Taiwan Stock Exchange (TSE) that the company spent NT$827 million (US$24.5 million) to...
Worldwide semiconductor capital equipment spending totaled US$30.7 billion in 2008, a 31.7% decline from the previous year, according to final results by Gartner. In major segments,...
Applied Materials has won a battle against European-based OC Oerlikon Balzers AG in a dispute over IP related to thin-film solar technology. In an oral decision delivered this week,...
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has recently spent a total of almost NT$5 billion (US$145 million) on five separate machinery equipment purchases. The amount already...
Applied Materials and Japan-based Disco have announced a joint effort to develop wafer thinning processes for fabricating through-silicon vias (TSVs) in 3-dimensional (3D) semicond...
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company(TSMC) has recently announced purchases of machinery equipment from Applied Materials Asia-Pacific, Dainippon Screen Manufacturing and KLA-Tencor...
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has recently announced the purchase of machinery equipment from Applied Materials Asia-Pacific and Tokyo Electron, totaling NT$1.02...
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has announced an equipment purchase worth NT$587.09 million (US$16.86 million) from Lam Research, a supplier of semiconductor wafer...
Applied Materials has announced that it is undertaking a major effort to enable the widespread adoption of through-silicon vias (TSVs), a rapidly-emerging approach for vertically...
