imec and BE Semiconductor Industries N.V. (Besi), a leading manufacturer of assembly equipment for the semiconductor industry, announced that they have demonstrated long-term reliability in five full size 60-cells Nickel/Copper/Silver (Ni/Cu/Ag) plated solar cell modules, confirming the industrial value of this metallization technology...

The global NAND Flash industry will see an annual increase of just 6% in its total wafer capacity in 2017, according to analysis by DRAMeXchange, a division of TrendForce. DRAMeXchange noted, as the pace of the industry-wide transition to 3D-NAND architecture accelerates, supply of 2D-NAND memory will drop sharply, leading to shortages next year...

According to IC Insights, the total memory market still down 1% yearly in 2016, and will increase 10% in 2017 to a new record high of $85.3 billion as gains in average selling prices for DRAM and NAND flash. IC Insights pointed, after increasing by more than 20% in both 2013 and 2014, the memory market fell upon difficult times in 2015...

Toshiba Corporation’s Storage & Electronic Devices Solutions Company announced the launch of JEDEC e∙MMC Version 5.1 compliant embedded NAND flash memory products supporting AEC-Q100 Grade2 requirements. The line-up offers densities of 8GB, 16GB, 32GB and 64GB...

China’s National Integrated Circuitry Investment Fund (here referred to as “National IC Fund”) has committed to invest nearly RMB 70 billion into the domestic semiconductor sector since its creation in 2015. Approximately 60% of the committed investment amount has been allocated to building semiconductor wafer fabs, according to TrendForce’s analysis...

According to IC Insights’ latest report, number of IC manufacturers using 300mm wafers less than half using 200mm wafers, and is becoming top-heavy. IC Insights said, prior to 2008, the 200mm wafer was used in more cases for manufacturing ICs than any other wafer size...

Lattice Semiconductor Corporation announced its new iCE40 UltraPlus FPGA devices, one of the industry’s most energy-efficient & programmable mobile heterogeneous computing (MHC) solutions. This latest addition to the iCE40 Ultra family delivers eight times more memory (1...