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Taiwan Ranks No. 1 in Worldwide Semiconductor Manufacturing Equipment Billings in Q3: SEMI
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Published: Dec 08,2015
Revenue Falls at Taiwan Chip Packagers and Testers
TAIPEI, Taiwan — Revenue falls at Taiwan two leading chip packagers and testers. Advanced Semiconductor Engineering Inc. (ASE), the world’s largest chip packager and tester, said its revenue contracted 5.4 percent to NT$26...
Global Semiconductor Sales to Sink 0.6% in 2016, TrendForce Says
Global market research firm TrendForce projects that the total revenue from sales of semiconductors worldwide will grow by a mere 0.9% year on year in 2015, a sharp plunge from the 10.5% year-on-year growth in 2014. Looking forward to 2016, the decline in the sales of memory products will become steeper and drag down the total semiconductor sales revenue...
NTT Communications Opens Top-Scale Data Center in Thailand
NTT Communications Corporation announced today the immediate launch of the Thailand Bangkok 2 Data Center, which boasts some 3,800 m2 of server room, equivalent to 1,400 racks, putting it in the top scale of data centers in Thailand...
NXP and Freescale Announce Completion of Merger
NXP Semiconductors N.V. and Freescale Semiconductor today announced the completion of the merger pursuant to the terms of the previously announced merger agreement from March 2015. The merger combined revenue of over $10 billion...
Imec Advances Drive Current in Vertical 3D NAND Memory Devices
At IEEE IEDM conference, imec showed for the first time the integration of high mobility InGaAs as a channel material for 3D vertical NAND memory devices formed in the plug (holes) with the diameter down to 45nm. The new channel material improves transconductance (gm) and read current which is crucial to enable further VNAND cost reduction by adding additional layers in 3D vertical architecture...
SEMI Reports Q3 Semiconductor Equipment Figures; Billings $9.6 Billion
SEMI today reported that worldwide semiconductor manufacturing equipment billings reached US$9.6 billion in the third quarter of 2015. The billings figure is 3 percent higher than the second quarter of 2015 and 9 percent higher than the same quarter a year ago...