150mm and 200mm wafer fabs accounted for two-thirds of total closures. March 01, 2018 -- Since the global economic recession of 2008-2009, the IC industry has been on a mission to pare down older ...

Due to the continuous expansion of China's mature process capacity and the ongoing requests from downstream customers for ...

June 25, 2014-- Semiconductor manufacturers closed 72 wafer fabs between 2009-2013 and another nine fabs are slated to close in 2014, according to data recently compiled, updated, and now available in ...

(The Center Square) – Another multi-million-dollar company has received millions in taxpayer dollars from a Texas CHIPS Act ...

Critical IC mineral concerns; wafer shipments shrink; Europe bets big on AI; new ultrasonic cleaner; high-speed DRAM test; ...

and amalgamation of circuits onto the wafer. The outcome is an IC wafer prepared from the congregation into electronic gadgets. Semiconductor wafers are structuring the components of the electronic ...

Timely engineering fixes rely on high-speed communications standards, but data inconsistencies are getting in the way.

These factors reduce the overall number of wafers an IC manufacturer can process in a given time, and also raise production costs per chip. Extreme ultraviolet lithography can achieve these ...

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has reportedly implemented new shipment restrictions on Chinese IC design ...