Taiwan's National Communications Commission (NCC), in response to questions from industry players that it may want to block imports of telecoms equipment made by China-based makers...
KLA-Tencor has introduced the Teron 600-series reticle defect inspection system to address a major transition in mask design at the 2Xnm logic (3Xnm half-pitch memory) node. The new...
KLA-Tencor has announced two new wafer inspection systems and a new electron-beam (e-beam) review system to address defect issues at the 3Xnm / 2Xnm nodes. Each new tool can preferentially...
The Taiwan government has imposed a quality inspection measure on all GPS PND devices for sale in Taiwan, according to sources at the Bureau of Standards, Metrology and Inspection...
The semiconductor metrology/inspection equipment (MIE) market finally outperformed the rest of the overall semiconductor front-end wafer processing equipment market for the first...
Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC) has placed orders for three e-beam inspection systems for 45nm and below production with Hermes Microvision (HMI), a subsidiary...
Semiconductor equipment supplier Test Research (TRI) is looking to expand its presence in the inspection equipment market, after rival Agilent Technologies' pending departure, according...
As assemblers of solar cell modules have increasingly asked Taiwan-based makers of solar cells to sort products before shipments, solar cell makers are increasing their demand for...
Chroma Ate is displaying its latest solar-cell inspection system at the ongoing PV Power Expo Taiwan (September 9-11), marking the company as the first Taiwan equipment vendor to...
With China being one of the key hubs for semiconductor production and key market for semiconductor sales, leading process control and yield management tool supplier KLA-Tencor believes...
