Nanowires under tension create the basis for ultrafast transistors.
MEMS
Intel Launches $1 Billion Fund to Build a Foundry Innovation Ecosystem
Intel today announced a new $1 billion fund to support early-stage startups and established companies building disruptive technologies for the foundry ecosystem.
NIST Researchers Resurrect and Improve a Technique for Detecting Transistor Defects
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have revived and improved a once-reliable technique to identify and count defects in transistors, the building blocks of modern electronic devices such as smartphones and computers.
American Semiconductor Academy (ASA) Initiative and SEMI Partner to Bolster Microelectronics Industry Talent Pool
SEMI and the American Semiconductor Academy (ASA) Initiative, a collaborative national education network of faculty at universities and colleges across the U.S. who are engaged in semiconductor research and education, today announced a partnership to build a comprehensive workforce development program designed to close the microelectronics industry’s widening talent gap.
Intrinsic Announces Breakthrough as Memory Devices Successfully Demonstrated at Commercially Relevant Nanometre Scale
Intrinsic Semiconductor Technologies Ltd today announces that it has successfully scaled its silicon oxide-based resistive random access memory devices (RRAM) and demonstrated electrical performance characteristics that will enable their use as high-performance, low-cost, embedded, non-volatile memory in logic devices at advanced processing nodes.
Order for a Research / Pilot Production MBE Machine in Asia
RIBER, a manufacturer of Molecular Beam Epitaxy (MBE) equipment serving the semiconductor industry, is announcing an order for an automatic MBE system in Asia.
Automotive Sensors Market To Reach $55B By 2030
A new study by Global Market Insights predicts the automotive sensors market size will exceed $55 billion by 2030. Sensors of various types, including LiDAR, pressure, temperature, and image, play a key role in these safety solutions, owing to their ability to offer higher accuracy and faster response rates in the event of accidents or crashes.
Sensor/Actuator and Discrete Sales Surge in 2021, Not So for Opto
Shortages, tight supplies, and higher prices drive up most O-S-D products in the economic rebound while CMOS image sensor sales are muted by U.S.-China disputes and softness in some systems, says report.
Weebit Appoints NVM Expert Gabriel Molas as Chief Scientist
Weebit Nano Limited, a developer of next-generation memory technologies for the global semiconductor industry, announced it has appointed ReRAM and non-volatile memory (NVM) expert Gabriel Molas as Chief Scientist.
SiTime Introduces XCalibur, a MEMS Solution for the Timing Industry’s Supply Chain Disruption
SiTime Corporation today introduced the SiTime XCalibur active resonator. This new product category solves supply chain constraints using programmable semiconductors to deliver a drop-in replacement for quartz crystal resonators.
