Manufacturing

Schurter has added to its fleet of collaborative robots (cobots) in its German and Netherlands factories taking the total to five. “Above all, the use of cobots reduces the workload for employees through automated and precise process steps such as loading, fixing, assembling lamination, dispensing and quality inspection, and frees up space for activities during production,” said the company, adding: ...

onsemi has sold its South Portland, Maine fab to Diodes following the closure of its Oudenarde, Belgium fab last month. “The proposed divestitures show that we are well on our way to achieve an optimized manufacturing network while supporting our customers with long-term assurance of supply,” says CEO  Hassane El-Khoury, “the transactions provide employees at the affected fabs with continued ...

Aiming to push 3D printing into higher manufacturing quantities, Barcelona-based printer maker BCN3D has created a mechanism for 3D deposition that cuts the print time of strong parts. Like ‘MLSA’ resin vat printing, the technology is fundamentally ultra-violet-cured polymer, cured by LCD shutter patterning in this case. As such, it prints a whole bed of objects just as quickly as ...

Intel has chosen Magdeburg in eastern Germany as its European fab site, reports Reuters. It is Intel’s third announcement of a potential multi-fab site in a year.  Last March it announced  it would build two  fabs un Arizona, and in January it announced a multi-fab site in Ohio. Intel has indicated in the past that a new fab site in ...

Cambridge GaN Devices has won government funding to develop a GaN power IC for server PSUs – and its first devices have been revealed. The company is fabless, and using its in-house intellectual property to improve the gate drive characteristics of GaN power transistors built on standard GaN foundry processes, by integrating further active devices on the device die rather ...

Analog Bits, Siemens Digital Industries Software and Alphawave are partnering with Intel Foundry Services (IFS). Siemens Digital Industries Software has become a charter member of the Intel Foundry Services (IFS) Accelerator – EDA Alliance, a programme committed to establishing an ecosystem for the design and fabrication of next generation SoCs manufactured on IFS’processes. The initiative promotes collaboration between IFS and its ...

kioWinner Kioxia Europe The inventor of nand flash memory and BiCS Flash 3D flash memory technology continuously invests in semiconductor research, enabling 162-layer flash and its manufacturing capacity to ensure broad availability of products that make today’s mobile, connected society possible. The vertically stacked BiCS Flash three-dimensional memory has a higher die area density compared to 2D nand flash memory ...

Berkshire-based Phabrix is manufacturing its 8,000th Sx handheld 3G-SDI tester. Established in 2005 by engineer Phillip Adams, the company was set-up to create an instrument to test and monitor the then new 3G-SDI signals. The SxA prototype was unveiled at IBC2007, with production starting the following year. 13 years later, the company is still making SxAs, celebrating milestones by making ...

The China government’s lockdown of the city of Xi’an could reverse the trend on memory prices which had been heading down before the Covid outbreak in the city, NAND suppliers stopped quoting prices following a statement from Samsung saying “we have decided to temporarily adjust operations at our manufacturing facilities in Xi’an, China. We will also take all necessary measures, ...

Tonight the Governor of Texas is expected to announce that Samsung will build a $17 billion foundry fab near the city of Taylor. Samsung is thought to be holding a board meeting today to sign off on the deal. Samsung already has a fab site in Texas – at Austin – and Samsung had been considering building the fab at ...