For the second year in a row, Semicon West coincided with “seasonality” for the equipment industry.

Semicon West, set for July 10-12 in San Francisco, is a good place to hear the experts discuss lithography, transistor, and 450mm wafer challenges.

The chip manufacturing technology sequence at Hudson Valley Community College is an opportunity, but no cakewalk.

Chipworks technology analyst Dick James discusses the teardown company’s images, and first conclusions, from the Intel 22nm tri-gate-based MPUs.

Things are looking up at GlobalFoundries, and not just on the technical front.

When a German chemical firm, Atotech, was looking for a new R&D center, it found CNSE in Albany, N.Y.

How did GlobalFoundries boost 32nm yields at its Dresden fab? Single-wafer cleans and bright field wafer inspections played key roles.

As semiconductor vendors come to dominate their markets, sharing data presents problems. Big companies want to “control their own messaging to the market,” said Gartner analyst Bob Johnson.

Once valiant, now vanquished, Japan’s DRAM industry shook the world 30 years ago.

“Galvanizing the STEM pipeline in Central Texas.”