| Are Japan litho companies on the way out?
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2010-09-29 |
| Japanese lithography equipment makers look set to fall further behind market leader ASML Holding NV, according to analysts with investment broker Nomura. |
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| Tanner EDA says 2010 revenue up 17%
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2010-09-24 |
| Tanner EDA credits North America, Central and South America, and Middle East markets for revenue growth |
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| 103M MEMS seen shipping in 2010
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2010-09-13 |
| MEMS sensors, actuators and microvalves are increasingly being used in non-consumer and non-automotive applications because of the value they bring o these high-end products |
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| TV remotes morph into motion sensors
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2010-09-09 |
| As TVs and STBs offer more services, their remote controls need to keep up as well, transforming from the traditional clickers to multi-sensor controllers. |
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| Georgia Tech demos piezotronic transistors for MEMS apps
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2010-09-09 |
| Transistors harness the piezoelectric effect in zinc-oxide nanowires to transform mechanical motion into a signal that controls logic operations. |
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| New markets rise for MEMS micro-valves
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2010-09-07 |
| Microstaq Inc. is using its micro-valve as a pilot to control the large flows necessary to tackle the HVAC market as well as automotive transmissions. |
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| ATMI, CVD, SiGen introduce a new class of components
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2010-09-07 |
| ATMI and Ovonyx make headway with germanium antimony telluride-based phase change memory devices using chemical vapor deposition processes while CVD Equipment Corp. and Graphene Laboratories Inc. have introduced a line of CVD graphene products. Not to be outdone, Silicon Genesis (SiGen) has started production of solar wafers using its new high volume manufacturing system, dubbed PolyMax. |
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| China car maker partners with Freescale
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2010-09-03 |
| Beiqi Foton Motor Co. Ltd and Freescale have established the Foton/Freescale Automotive Joint Lab in Beijing, China, to integrate Freescale MCUs and sensors into Foton's automotive control systems. |
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| iPhone 4 takes consumer handhelds to 9 degrees of freedom
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2010-09-01 |
| Chipworks looks under the hood of the iPhone 4 to reveal the first portable consumer device featuring full nine degrees-of-freedom (9-DoF) inertial sensing. It integrates an accelerometer and gyroscope from ST and an electronic compass from AKM. |
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| Alternative low-drift MEMS vertical gyro introduced
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2010-08-27 |
| MEMSIC Inc. introduces its next-generation family of high-performance MEMS inertial systems. The VG800 vertical gyro is the first release in this new series of low-drift IMU products that challenging traditional FOG-based IMUs. The VG800 incorporates advanced MEMS rate gyro and accelerometer technologies with MEMSIC's proprietary Kalman filter algorithms resulting in a precision IMU, as well as giving attitude angles for navigation and stabilization |
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| Quantum dots power nano sensors
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2010-08-26 |
| McGill University researchers are harnessing the piezoelectric effect in quantum dots, aiming for nanoscale sensors and power supplies that translate vibration into a usable signal. |
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| Air gaps move up from chip- to board-level
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2010-08-19 |
| The Semiconductor Research Corp. sees air-gap interconnections migrating from the chip-level, to the PCB-level. |
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| CE, mobile MEMS revenue to reach $1.5B in 2010
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2010-08-17 |
| MEMS sensors in cellphones, CE and emerging devices will continue to grow in 2010 and beyond, forecasts market analyst iSuppli Corp |
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| Mobile adoption of MEMS gyroscopes to grow 150 percent
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2010-08-04 |
| Games and applications will be the first use case to leverage MEMS gyroscopes in mobile handsets, but by 2013, indoor navigation services will be available, according to IMS Research |
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| MEMS microprojectors to bring 3D modeling to market
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2010-07-30 |
| MEMS startup Seikowave and the University of Kentucky are using MEMS microprojectors to bring 3D modeling via structured light illumination to the market |
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| Photomask merchants: behind but fighting
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2010-07-27 |
| Photomask merchant players DNP, Photronics and Toppan may be trailing the giants technology wise, but they are still in the game. |
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| Total MEMS market back on uptrend
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2010-07-16 |
| iSuppli predicts that the MEMS market will recover in 2010 from its two-year decline with an 11 percent growth driven by strong demand in consumer, automotive electronics |
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| Qualcomm plans to rev up struggling lines
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2010-07-08 |
| Qualcomm Inc. launched a number of new initiatives for many of its lesser-known products including Brew OS, Snapdragon and MediaFlo mobile TV. |
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| Singapore aims to boost high-tech presence
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2010-07-07 |
| Singapore EDB director for electronics Damian Chan talks about the nation's future directions for the electronics industry and competition with other countries for attracting tech investment. |
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| WiSpry, IBM co-develop tunable RF MEMS
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2010-07-06 |
| WiSpry Inc. and IBM are collaborating to develop MEMS process technology and manufacture its tunable RF product roadmap |
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| Passive MEMS, actuators to keep cars safe
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2010-07-01 |
| The next generation of car automation will be equipped by passive MEMS sensors with active actuators that will increasingly "drive" cars in hazardous situations to avoid accidents, experts said |
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| Automotive MEMS poised for 2010 rebound
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2010-06-29 |
| The automotive MEMS sensor market is expected to rebound from a poor 2009 to grow 17.8 percent in 2010, according to market research firm iSuppli Corp |
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| TowerJazz bags specialty design deals with Toppan
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2010-06-22 |
| TowerJazz has successfully engaged in multiple specialty design projects in Japan with Toppan Technical Design Center in the area of SiGe BiCMOS technologies used for high speed RF applications. |
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| Sematech welcomes Qualcomm as first fabless member
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2010-06-21 |
| Qualcomm Inc. has joined chip-making consortium Sematech to gain an edge in next-generation technology, reportedly including 3D chips. |
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| 3D TSV chips not ready for prime time
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2010-06-18 |
| Some experts at the International Interconnect Technology Conference (IITC) concluded that 3D chips based on through-silicon-vias (TVS) are not ready for prime time. |
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| More handsets to pack MEMS gyroscopes
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2010-06-11 |
| Already shipping in millions of units per month for image stabilization in digcams, gaming controllers and for 3D mice, the cellphone gyroscope market is predicted become even larger in just a few years. |
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| iPhone 4 equipped with MEMS gyroscope
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2010-06-10 |
| Confirming earlier speculation, Apple Inc. has unveiled the iPhone 4 smart phone sporting a MEMS gyroscope |
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| HP secures top spot in MEMS market
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2010-06-07 |
| Hewlett-Packard Co. remains on top of the MEMS sensor market in 2009, leading semiconductor IDM and fabless firms with $877 million in MEMS revenue, according iSuppli Corp |
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| Malaysia's Unisem sets sight on China market
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2010-05-31 |
| Malaysia IC-packaging and test specialist Unisem plans to expand in China, develop an automotive expertise and look for acquisitions in the market. |
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| Growing healthcare market is good for analog
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2010-05-26 |
| The growing healthcare instrumentation market has analog is turning to its roots of real-world signal interfacing. What's old is still quite viable, and, in fact, increasingly so. |
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