US-based supplier of semiconductor-assembly equipment, tools and materials Kulicke & Soffa Industries (K&S) stated it is currently in the process of shipping 580 wire bonders...

Over the last 15 years, MEMS has become a well-known term in the field of high-tech innovative technologies. Research centers' activities in this area have grown tremendously and...

Besides Taiwan’s first-tier foundry and packaging/testing houses that already have leading, world-class positions, Taiwan also has a promising IC design industry that includes...

Just two months after saying it might lift a ban to allow Taiwanese semiconductor makers to set up China fabs using 0.18-micron processes, the Taiwan government in early April said...

At the recently concluded SEMICON Taiwan, Japan-based Sumitomo Chemical revealed a roadmap for its Sumiresist materials used in semiconductor photolithography to form a patterned...

Synova SA is poised to revolutionize wafer dicing with its innovative laser-microjet (LMJ) technology, where a hair-thin low-pressure jet of water guides the laser while simultaneously...

Announced in June, KLA-Tencor’s Puma 9000 patterned wafer inspection system combines high-resolution imaging with laser scattering technology. Previously, KLA-Tencor offered...

The problem with single-drop gas lines has been the creation of pressure transients and perturbations when valves are opened and closed, and it’s these disturbances in flow...

Although the book “Rich Dad, Poor Dad” is mainly about two differing financial views of the world, a key idea that arises from the book is the unfairness of resource distribution...

Over the past few years, China has been systematically promoting economic reforms while domestic consumption significantly increased. As a result, China has become “the world’s...

Twelve years ago when a Taiwan economics official explained to parliament a project on submicron technology, an ignorant lawmaker mistook it for an agricultural project because the...

At Semicon Taiwan 2005, the SEZ Group was showing its Da Vinci series of single-wafer wet processing systems, which target polymer removal for copper dual-damascene etch. The Da Vinci...

ProMOS Technologies has placed a purchase order agreement for a production ALD system from Genus, a member of the Aixtron Group. The system will initially be used for the volume production...

China’s IC designers are no longer the copycats they used to be. Since 2003, they have attained significant breakthroughs in the development of software and firmware. In addition,...

The US-based polishing technology supplier Rohm and Haas Electronic Materials CMP is using its presence at SEMICON Taiwan 2005 this week in Taipei to attract more attention to its...