Semiconductor equipment sales to reach nearly $44B in 2015

Published: December 12, 2014

SEMI, San Jose, Calif., projects that worldwide sales of new semiconductor manufacturing equipment will increase 19.3% to $38.0 billion in 2014, according to its year-end forecast.

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Sematech makes progress in EUV-resist outgas testing

Published: December 12, 2014

Sematech, Albany, N.Y., reports that promising progress has been made in qualifying outgassing specifications for extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography.

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Mentor Graphics EZ-VIP provides re-usable building blocks to cut testbench assembly time

Published: December 12, 2014

Mentor Graphics Corp., Wilsonville, Ore., announces the immediate availability of its new Mentor EZ-VIP PCI Express Verification IP (VIP).

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Helios PFIB designed for semiconductor failure analysis and process development

Published: December 12, 2014

FEI Corp., Hillsboro, Ore., offers the Helios PFIB for large area deprocessing to enable electrical fault isolation of advanced process ICs, and advanced failure analysis of 3D packages.

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Fourth-generation Intel Core processor enables 50% longer battery life

Published: December 12, 2014

Intel Corp., Santa Clara, Calif., has introduced the 4th generation Intel Core processor family, with power levels as low as 6 watts, up to 50% improvement in battery life over the previous generation in active workloads, and two to three times improvement in standby battery life.

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Bruker launches NanoForce nanomechanical testing system

Published: December 12, 2014

Bruker, Billerica, Mass., introduces the NanoForce nanoindenting and nanomechanical testing system.

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Cadence system SoC verifier enables up to ten times improvement in productivity

Published: December 11, 2014

Cadence Design Systems Inc., San Jose, Calif., has developed the Cadence Perspec System Verifier platform, a software-driven system-on-chip (SoC) verification solution.

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A heart of gold? Try platinum

Published: December 05, 2014

A platinum-chromium alloy makes coronary stents stronger, more flexible and resistant to corrosion wins award from ASM International.

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GlobalFoundries and Invecas partner for design service centers

Published: November 24, 2014

Global Foundries, Santa Clara, Calif., announces a partnership with Invecas Inc., also of Santa Clara, a newly formed design services provider focused on accelerating customer introduction of new products on leading-edge semiconductor process technologies.

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Nikon-JEOL form partnership to correlate light and electron microscopy

Published: November 24, 2014

Nikon Instruments Inc., Melville, N.Y., and JEOL, Peabody, Mass., have formed a partnership to research and develop solutions to address correlative light and electron microscopy.

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