Cadence Design Systems Inc., England, announces that Cadence Virtuoso Layout-Dependent Effects (LDE) analyzer has been qualified by United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC) to support its 28HPCU process technology.
Semi, San Jose, Calif., reports that the global semiconductor materials market decreased by 1.5% in 2015 compared to 2014, while worldwide semiconductor revenues decreased by 0.2 %.
The 2016 Pittcon Heritage Award, jointly sponsored by the Pittsburgh Conference on Analytical Chemistry and Applied Spectroscopy (Pittcon) and the Chemical Heritage Foundation (CHF), has been presented to Kenji Kazato (1917-2012) and Kazuo Ito (1921- ), who led a group of scientists in Japan to develop an electron microscope.
Ultratech Inc., San Jose, Calif., announces a follow-on order from a major foundry for its LSA101 laser spike anneal system equipped with the dual-beam option, which provides a second low-power laser that adds flexibility to chip production.
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Korea, has begun mass producing the industry’s first 10-nm class 8Gb DDR4 (double-data-rate-4) DRAM chips and the modules derived from them.
