A TechInsight report disclosed in July 2022 that Semiconductor Manufacturing International (SMIC) had been shipping 7nm chips made with 14nm equipment for the MinerVa Bitcoin...
Japanese camera and lithography machine maker Canon will invest more than JPY50 billion (US$345 million) to build a new plant in Japan's Tochigi prefecture, Nikkei Asia reported...
In 2022, as global inflation has been revised up and with the threats of the conflict in Eastern Europe, the world economy is facing an increasingly challenging and uncertain outlook...
Heavyweight semiconductor players including sole EUV lithography equipment vendor ASML and top foundry TSMC have lately shed lights on latest front-end lithography and backend advanced...
Samsung Electronics vice chairman Jay Y Lee's recent visits to both ASML in the Netherlands and Imec in Belgium have had industry observers believe that the Korea-based vendor is...
Samsung Electronics, SK Hynix and Micron Technology held a combined 94% share of the global DRAM market in 2021, with Samsung and SK Hynix collectively taking up 71.3% of the market,...
ASML has disclosed plans to expand production capacity for both its EUV and deep-UV systems by 2025, and the lithography tool vendor is on track to ship 55 sets of EUV systems in...
Edwards, which makes vacuum pumps and advanced exhaust systems used in semiconductor manufacturing, is working closely with the world's major foundries to reduce carbon emissions...
A recent unexpected large-scale power outage in Taiwan has rekindled worries among foundries that they could suffer not only insufficient power supply during the peak power-consumption...
Fab toolmakers worldwide are all poised to score significant revenue gains in 2022 and beyond from fulfilling robust orders from TSMC, which is set to invest over US$100 billion during...
The Shanghai municipal government has newly released a package of generous incentives to encourage investments in the development and production of semiconductor materials and equipment,...
China-based Sinyang Semiconductor Materials has signed a three-year cooperation pact with Germany's chemical materials vendor Heraeus to jointly develop photoresist for use in producing...
There are more ways than one to improve on chip performance and power, and with chip scaling generating more costs, chipmakers are exploring more methods in their technology advancements,...
