Copper pillar bumping is an improvement over lead-tin solder balls due to better electrical and thermal performance.

Hynix increased prices for the chips between 5-10% and Samsung is said to raise price "significantly"

... in December, Hemlock finally decided that the industry is real, but only after solar companies agreed to share the risk by signing contracts to buy the future output. So in December the company began an expansion worth more than $400 million...

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In 4Q net sales totaled US$317.3 million and gross margins reached 40.2%...

See's appointment follows the departure of Giordano Seragnoli, the current Corporate VP for back-end activities who, at 69..

Acting on cries for help from domestic companies struggling with increasingly tough foreign competition, Japan has decided to slap ariffs of 27.2% on Hynix...

OmniVision made significant progress by gaining acceptance in a number of newly developing markets such as automotive, security and surveillance, medical, and toys and gaming...

Japan represents a growing proportion of Xilinx worldwide sales, with 14 percent of total sales in the third quarter of fiscal 2006...

Shares in ASML, the world's largest maker of semiconductor lithography machines which map out electronic circuits on silicon wafers, hit a 3.5-year high earlier this month ...