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Test, Packaging Growth Hit 7.4% in 2007Staff, March 12, 2008Gartner Inc. said the worldwide market for semiconductor assembly and test services (SATS) grew by 7.4% to $20.6B in 2007. For 2008, Gartner forecasts another year of growth, with initial estimates for 9.8% growth compared with 2007. More
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Magma Design Joins SOI ConsortiumStaff, March 10, 2008The SOI Industry Consortium welcomed Magma Design Automation as its newest member, raising the number of participants to 21 companies. Magma supports SOI characterization and timing methodology in its design tools. More
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Sumitomo Ups Ante for Axcelis, Offers $6 per ShareStaff, March 10, 2008Sumitomo Heavy Industries said it will offer $6 for each share of Axcelis Technologies stock, sweetening the Feb. 11 offer somewhat and adding that today's offer is final. The Japanese company and Axcelis operate a joint venture in Japan. More
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M+W Zander Names Managing DirectorStaff, March 6, 2008M+W Zander (Stuttgart, Germany) named Jürgen Wild as its new leader. It also announced the successful completion of a refinancing effort at the company, which builds facilities in the electronic, solar, pharmaceutical and chemical industries. More
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Micron Picks Boise for Its Next FabDavid Lammers, News Editor, March 4, 2008Although its timeline is undecided, Micron Technology president Mark Durcan said that Micron has picked Boise, Idaho, as the site for its next fab. Timing depends on market conditions. More
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Freescale Forging Ahead to 45 nm in 2008David Lammers, News Editor, March 4, 2008
Freescale Semiconductor Inc. will begin sampling networking chips using 45 nm design rules by the second half of this year. Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing will be its main foundry, said Lisa Su, CTO.
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TSMC Reorganizes Into Three Business UnitsStaff, March 3, 2008Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (TSMC, Hsinchu, Taiwan) announced a reorganization into three main business units that will focus on advanced technology, mainstream technology, and sales and marketing. The sales unit will continue to support both advanced and mainstream technologies at the foundry's customers. More
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SI China Names Six Influential Persons in China’s 2007 IC Manufacturing IndustryStaff, February 26, 2008Semiconductor International magazine’s China edition has selected six people who played key roles in China’s semiconductor manufacturing industry in 2007. More
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Implant Sciences Seeks to Sell its Core Implant Services UnitStaff, February 21, 2008Implant Sciences Corp. said it plans to sell its “Core” semiconductor subsidiary, which provides ion implantation services in Sunnyvale, Calif., and at its Wakefield, Mass., headquarters. The company will concentrate its resources on security products, including explosives trace detection systems. More
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Toshiba Plans Two Memory Fabs; SanDisk, Toshiba Announce Flexible MoUDavid Lammers, News Editor, February 19, 2008
Toshiba said it plans to build two memory fabs in Japan, starting in the spring of 2009. Partners SanDisk and Toshiba also announced a memorandum of understanding that gives SanDisk more flexibility at a new NAND flash fab the partners plan to build next year.
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Chartered Buys Hitachi 200 mm Fab in SingaporeStaff, February 16, 2008Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing Ltd. said it will buy a 200 mm fab from Hitachi Ltd.'s Singapore subsidiary, adding 24,000 wpm of capacity. The deal includes a commitment from Renesas Technology Corp. for foundry business conducted at the Singapore facility, where 800 are now employed. More
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Survey: China's IC Industry Growing FastYao Gang, Editor-in-Chief, SI China, February 16, 2008
The IC industry in China is growing rapidly, with 2008 IC sales expected to grow by 31.3% this year, according to a survey by the Shanghai Integrated Circuit Industry Association. In Shanghai, packaging and test accounts for half of the metropolitan region's semiconductor revenues, according to the survey.
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Sumitomo Makes Takeover Bid for AxcelisDavid Lammers, News Editor, February 11, 2008
Sumitomo Heavy Industries (Tokyo) unveiled a takeover bid, valued at $544M, for ion implant vendor Axcelis Technologies Inc. (Beverly, Mass.). The two companies are partners in an ion implant joint venture in Japan named SEN, but have a recent history of conflicting product introductions and royalty disputes.
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Toshiba to Build Fifth NAND Fab in JapanStaff, February 8, 2008Toshiba Corp. and its flash partner, SanDisk Corp., will build and equip a NAND flash memory fab in Iwate, Japan, at a total cost exceeding $6.6B, the Japanese daily Asahi Shimbun reported. More
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Gartner Sees Further Softening in Capex PlansStaff, February 4, 2008Gartner analysts said 2008 semiconductor capital spending is likely to decline by 16.6% this year, a downward revision to a mid-December prediction that capex would shrink by 13.2% this year. More
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Yole Ranks Top 30 MEMS Suppliers; Sees Rapid Growth in Consumer, MedicalStaff, January 31, 2008Yole Développement, (Lyon, France), a market research firm specializing in MEMS, packaging and related markets, released its 2007 ranking of the top 30 MEMS manufacturers. The market research firm also broke out the fastest-growing MEMS applications, with consumer and medical fluidics markets showing particularly fast growth. More
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Freescale Seeks Growth After Tepid 2007David Lammers, News Editor, January 31, 2008
Freescale Semiconductor Inc. executives said fab utilization rates have dropped as sales of the company's wireless ICs to Motorola Inc. have sharply dropped. The company is seeking to sell its East Kilbride, Scotland, fab, and a gallium arsenide fab in Tempe, Ariz. On the plus side, Freescale is to receive a major cash injection that it will invest to grow its revenues, said CEO Michel Mayer.
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Progress Claimed on CMOS Crash-Avoidance ChipStaff, January 29, 2008Using trailing-edge CMOS rather than costly III-V technologies, a team from the Semiconductor Research Corp. (SRC) and the University of Florida said that they have developed key circuits required for a collision-avoidance radar IC. The chip could be made for ~$10, opening up a large market for crash-avoidance electronics that could save many lives. More
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Lam Research Sees Foundry Spending as Bright Hope for 2008David Lammers, News Editor, January 25, 2008Lam Research Corp. CEO Steve Newberry said foundry capital investments could increase sharply in the first half of 2008 as capacity utilization increases. However, the overall equipment market is prisoner to larger economic trends. “In today’s volatile economic climate, I don’t think any of us should have confidence” in business forecasts, he said. More
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Changhong Electric Invests in OLED PlantYao Gang, Editor-in-Chief, SI China, January 25, 2008
China’s display industry is growing with investments in OLED and LCD production facilities.
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