Semi 2019 Mid-Year Total Equipment Forecast: 2019 market reset with 2020 recovery

Published: August 14, 2019

Semi, San Francisco, projects that global sales of semiconductor manufacturing equipment by original equipment manufacturers will drop by 18.4 percent to $52.7 billion in 2019 from last year’s historic high of $64.5 billion in its Mid-Year Total Equipment Forecast.

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Maser Engineering’s MIP machine expands decapsulation capability for failure analysis

Published: August 13, 2019

Maser Engineering, the Netherlands, announces that it has further strengthened its capabilities in semiconductor failure analysis by acquiring a second microwave-induced-plasma (MIP) decapsulation machine from Jiaco Instruments, also of the Netherlands.

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Specially designed Zeiss camera lenses traveled with Apollo 11 to the Moon 50 years ago

Published: July 19, 2019

Zeiss, Oberkochen, Germany, reports that in October 1968, the company received the order for a camera lens to be used during the Moon landing, which was scheduled to take place a mere nine months later as part of the Apollo 11 mission.

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GlobalFoundries, Soitec sign supply agreements for 300-mm wafers to meet market demand

Published: July 18, 2019

GlobalFoundries, Santa Clara, Calif., and Soitec, France, have signed multiple long-term supply agreements for 300-mm silicon-on-insulator wafers to secure the high-volume supply needed to meet the growing demand for its differentiated radio-frequency-silicon-on-insulator, fully-depleted-silicon-on-insulator, and silicon photonics technology platforms.

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Thermo Scientific Helios Hydra DualBeam SEM delivers four different ions as primary beam

Published: July 18, 2019

Thermo Scientific, Hillsboro, Oregon, announces that researchers can now apply a range of ion beam species within one focused ion beam scanning electron microscope with the new Helios Hydra DualBeam system.

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Advantest V93000 Wave Scale Millimeter Solution is finalist in Best of West awards

Published: July 17, 2019

SEMI Americas, Milpitas, Calif., and Semiconductor Digest announce that Advantest, Tokyo, was a finalist in the Best of West awards for its V93000 Wave Scale Millimeter Solution, which has been extended to support multi-band testing at the fast interface speeds used by 5G devices.

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Samsung Electronics selects Optomec’s Aerosol Jet for next-generation electronics production

Published: July 17, 2019

Optomec, Albuquerque, N.M., announces that Samsung Electronics has commissioned an Aerosol Jet 5X System in its Printed Electronics Lab to enable next-generation electronics production.

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CyberOptics nanoresolution MRS sensor wins 2019 Best of West Award at SEMICON West

Published: July 17, 2019

CyberOptics Corp., Minneapolis, Minn., announces that it has won the 2019 Best of West award for the new NanoResolution MRS (Multi-Reflection Suppression) sensor, which “meticulously identifies and rejects multiple reflections caused by shiny components and mirror-like surfaces.”

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Denso and Toyota to establish a Joint Venture for R&D of in-vehicle semiconductors

Published: July 17, 2019

Denso Corp. and Toyota Motor Corp., both of Japan, have agreed to establish a Joint Venture for research and advanced development of next-generation, in-vehicle semiconductors, and they aim to establish the new company by April 2020.

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Purdue and Taiwan Semiconductor join to build secure semiconductor pipeline

Published: July 17, 2019

Purdue University, West Lafayette, Ind., and the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC), jointly announce plans to establish a Center for Secured Microelectronics Ecosystem.

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