For the first time in four years, demand for flat panel displays grew double digits at 10.5 percent, year over year, to 221 million square meters in 2018.
Creating Customer Value: A Case Study on 300mm Manufacturing Learning for Back Qualification of 200mm processing
The cost of many 300mm Chemical Mechanical Planarization (CMP) consumables has decreased in recent years due to a maturing market and new process learning, making it economically feasible to embark on a new 200mm Oxide CMP polishing process based on…
Introducing Semiconductor Digest
I’m delighted to introduce Semiconductor Digest, a new business-to-business publication focused on the dynamic semiconductor manufacturing industry. Check out this link to our new Media Kit. If you’re interested in contributing content, please let me know. Our inaugural issue will…
Samsung completes 5nm EUV development
Samsung Electronics makes major strides in EUV-based advanced nodes, including 7nm mass production and 6nm customer tape-out Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. today announced that its 5-nanometer (nm) FinFET process technology is complete in its development and is now ready for…
MagnaChip launches 28nm OLED DDIC for smartphone displays
MagnaChip Semiconductor Corporation, a designer and manufacturer of analog and mixed-signal semiconductor products, announced today that it has launched the 28-nanometer (nm) OLED (Organic Light Emitting Diodes) DDIC (Display Driver IC) for smartphone displays. The 28nm process is the most…
Semiconductor photomask sales reach record high of $4B
Following a record-breaking 2017, worldwide semiconductor photomask sales set a new high of $4.04 billion in 2018 and is forecast to extend its record-setting streak through 2020 with forecast sales of $4.2 billion, SEMI, the industry association representing the global…
NRL develops laser processing method to increase efficiency of optoelectronic devices
Scientists at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) discovered a new method to passivate defects in next generation optical materials to improve optical quality and enable the miniaturization of light emitting diodes and other optical elements. “From a chemistry standpoint,…
2018 global semiconductor equipment sales jump to record $64.5B
Worldwide sales of semiconductor manufacturing equipment surged 14 percent from $56.62 billion in 2017 to an all-time high of $64.5 billion in 2018, SEMI, reported. The data is now available in the Worldwide Semiconductor Equipment Market Statistics (WWSEMS) Report. For…
Measurement of semiconductor material quality is now 100,000 times more sensitive
The enhanced power of the new measuring technique to characterize materials at scales much smaller than any current technologies will accelerate the discovery and investigation of 2D, micro- and nanoscale materials. The enhanced power of the new measuring technique to…
Semiconductor industry calls for bold federal policies to sustain U.S. leadership in chip technology
As foreign governments take big steps to advance their domestic semiconductor capabilities, new blueprint lays out research, workforce, trade initiatives needed to help keep America on top in chip technology The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) today released a set of…
