Manufacturing

DRAM wafer output, which peaked in 2008 at 16.4 million 300-millimeter-equivalent wafers, is expected to decline by 24% to 13 million this year, says IHS.

STMicroelectronics has an SOI process which can deliver RF front end modules supporting the 40 different frequency bands required for LTE.

Globafoundries has got certified design flows for its 20nm low power process and its 14nm finfet process.

An Australian-UK consortium is offering a epitaxial silicon carbide buffer layer for 300mm silicon wafers, claiming it will improve gallium nitride growth for GaN-on-Si LED fabrication. The buffer is the result of over 10 years research at the Queensland Micro and Nanotechnology Facility (QMF) of Griffith University, and a tie-up with Gwent-based fab equipment maker SPTS Technologies. “Fabricating GaN LEDs ...

The EC is to implement a €100 billion plan to get Europe back to manufacturing 20% of the worldwide output of ICs.

Next month customers can start prototyping on STMicroelectronics’ 28nm FD-SOI process which delivers 30% better performance than 28nm bulk CMOS, according to ST’s CTO and CMO Jean-Marc Chery.

If you’re considering manufacturing overseas, you are almost certainly aware that you will need to deal with different cultures and accept a significant increase in delivery timescales. However, you may want to consider a supplier closer to home as research has shown that there is a growing trend to ‘reshore’ your electronics manufacturing back to the UK, partly driven by ...

MOSIS, the multi-project wafer organisation, is to supply low-cost, low-volume photonic ICs. MOSIS is supplying photonics ICs via a co-operation with Imec, the Tyndall National R&D Institute of Ireland and ePIXfab – the European Silicon Photonics Platform co-funded by the consisting of the Imec-UGent partnership, CEA-LETI, IHP of Germany), TNO of Holland, Tyndall, VTT of Finland and CMC Microsystems of ...

More than a quarter of the world's wafer capacity is for processes better than 40nm, says IC Insights.

"The start of UK production of the first mass-market, pure-electric vehicle is a landmark day for the UK automotive industry," said Rhian Kelly, CBI director for business environment