Dow Electronic Materials, a business unit of DowDuPont's specialty products division, held recently a ribbon-cutting ceremony for its phase-four expansion at its Asia CMP Manufacturing...
China has taken a big stride forward in the localization of semiconductor equipment needed to support domestic chip production, as some major equipment makers have achieved technological...
Fujifilm has announced that its semiconductor business subsidiary, Fujifilm Electronic Materials, will launch the operation of its third plant in Taiwan in late November. The new...
Dow Chemical held recently a groundbreaking ceremony for the fourth-phase expansion project of its chemical mechanical polishing (CMP) plant in Hsinchu, northern Taiwan, according...
Entegris, Inc. (NASDAQ: ENTG), a leader in yield-enhancing materials and solutions for highly advanced manufacturing environments, announced at a Taiwan tradeshow the development...
In semiconductor manufacturing, the chemical mechanical polishing (or CMP) step is used to planarize, or create a level topography, between each layer of the interconnect structure...
Dow Chemical expects its CMP (chemical mechanical polishing) solution and pad production plant in Chunan, northern Taiwan, to operate at full capacity through 2015, according to the...
Applied Materials has announced two new systems that help customers solve critical challenges in manufacturing high-performance, power-efficient 3D devices.
With semiconductor companies constantly upgrading to the latest advanced technologies, related production materials suppliers are required to raise the technological bar and provide...
Japan-based Hitachi Chemical has unveiled plans to establish a CMP slurry production plant in Tainan, southern Taiwan, with an investment of JPY2 billion (US$25.7 million). The facility...
Manufacturers of a broad spectrum of high-tech products have been feeling the impact of price hikes in rare earth element-based processing materials because of China's embargo in...
With a slowdown in IC sales not expected until the third quarter of 2012, demand for slurries to planarize IC surfaces will grow 15% in 2011 on top of a 36% growth in 2010, according...
Fulltrol Precision Materials, a Taiwan-based startup that makes chemical mechanical planarization (CMP) materials, has obtained certification for its CMP pads from an unspecified...
Taiwan-based Kinik has secured certification from Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) for diamond disks (DDs) used in CMP (chemical-mechanical polishing) pad conditioning...
