Manufacturing

The world of fancy watches has begun borrowing from the semiconductor industry, with a Swiss firm replacing a key metal wheel with one micromachined from silicon

PCB firm Exception PCB is investing at its facility in Tewkesbury, UK following a management buy-out earlier this year

Wireless baseband processor on 65nm is key to a $30 BOM for a 3G phone, says the chip firm

Three-dimensional chip technology developer Ziptronix has revealed a technique for creating high-density interconnects between two chips that it says could reduce the cost of complex SoCs

Microelectronics is a team sport according to Freescale Semiconductor, refuting claims made earlier this month by Texas Instruments that it was an individual pursuit

The US chip maker is maintaining its product design activities in Nantes, which address the aerospace, automotive and industrial markets in particular

Chip firms co­­l­laborating on the development of process tech­­nologies are being forced to do so out of a position of weakness, according to Rich Templeton

European Commission sets its policy for manufacturing in Europe, concentrating on defence, IT, communications and pharmaceuticals

The challenge for micro electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) is to reduce product costs to meet the demands of the consumer industry, the SEMI ISS conference in Moscow was told last week

A Californian startup says it has a replacement for resolution enhancement software; one that it claims can get mask correction right the first time