With semiconductor companies constantly upgrading to the latest advanced technologies, related production materials suppliers are required to raise the technological bar and provide...
Japan-based Hitachi Chemical has unveiled plans to establish a CMP slurry production plant in Tainan, southern Taiwan, with an investment of JPY2 billion (US$25.7 million). The facility...
Manufacturers of a broad spectrum of high-tech products have been feeling the impact of price hikes in rare earth element-based processing materials because of China's embargo in...
With a slowdown in IC sales not expected until the third quarter of 2012, demand for slurries to planarize IC surfaces will grow 15% in 2011 on top of a 36% growth in 2010, according...
Fulltrol Precision Materials, a Taiwan-based startup that makes chemical mechanical planarization (CMP) materials, has obtained certification for its CMP pads from an unspecified...
Taiwan-based Kinik has secured certification from Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) for diamond disks (DDs) used in CMP (chemical-mechanical polishing) pad conditioning...
Cabot Microelectronics, a supplier of chemical mechanical planarization (CMP) polishing slurries, has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the shares of Epoch Material,...
