Smart watches; Intel’s ARM ban; crazy CapEx; Applied’s TSV breakthrough; Soitec’s solar expansion; book-to-bill; Mentor does deal in China.

Chip complexity is causing foundries like GlobalFoundries to expand on both the leading-edge and specialty-process fronts.

Printing human tissue; DNA lithography; who needs GPS?

Don’t call IT; breaking the bank; Intel vendor awards; record SOI power amp; SEMI’s Southeast Asia outlook; Mentor speeds up SCSI.

Crying need for tunable materials; SOI meets DSA; battery life boost

Intel’s foundry impact; CapEx ante; GF in 3D; Mentor’s UPF flow; Cadence’s finFET play; SOI in space; Applied’s fellow.

GlobalFoundries has announced several 2.5D/3D chip milestones–a series of events that brings the technology closer to mass production.

Robotic ants; seeing atoms in 3D; multi-beam mask writer update.

Biting Apple; repairing Hitachi; Europe’s wafer madness; GF moves up; RF SOI legal battle; Applied’s service model.

Next wonder material; brain chips; quantum dot cells.