SEMI, San Jose, Calif., recently completed its annual silicon shipment forecast for the semiconductor industry, providing an outlook for the demand in silicon units for the period 2016–2018.
Toshiba America Electronic Components Inc., Irvine, Calif., has expanded its family of 24nm single-level cell (SLC) NAND flash memory solutions.
The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA), Washington, D.C., announces that worldwide sales of semiconductors reached $28.0 billion for the month of August 2016, an increase of 3.5% over the previous month’s total of $27.1 billion, and an uptick of 0.5% over the August 2015 total of $27.9 billion.
Tektronix Inc., Beaverton, Ore., introduces the Keithley S540 Power Semiconductor Test System, a fully-automated, 48-pin parametric test system for wafer-level testing of power semiconductor devices and structures up to 3kV.
Mentor Graphics Corp., Wilsonville, Ore., has acquired Galaxy Semiconductor, a provider of test data analysis and defect reduction software for the semiconductor industry.
