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Will there be a 450mm fab in Europe? 30/01/2012

Leading semiconductor manufacturers will move to using 450mm wafers within the next five years or so. TSMC, for example, believes it will be the only economical way to make leading edge devices in the future.

TSMC, along with Intel and Samsung, will apply 450mm wafers at the 'bleeding edge' - 20nm and smaller. Europe has strong interest in 450mm from the tools perspective: imec is a leading researcher, ...
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Archive: New Electronics 1982 27/01/2012

The electronics news stories making the pages of New Electronics 30 years ago this week

Pushing the boundaries 24/01/2012

IBM has, for many years, been at the forefront of fundamental electronics research, with ...

Bloodhound Project diary 23/01/2012

An ambitious start to the New Year. I spent last summer running air operations over ...

If you snooze, you lose 23/01/2012

The pace of development in the mobile phone sector has speeded noticeably in the last ...

Archive: New Electronics 1972 20/01/2012

The electronics news stories making the pages of New Electronics 40 years ago this week

Tricorder prize launched 16/01/2012

An article written in 1900 has recently been discovered. In it, a number of predictions ...

Photos from CES 2012 12/01/2012

The latest photos from the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.

CES 2012 - Intel highlights 12/01/2012

Images: highlights from Intel's keynote at the 2012 International CES.

Leaving the merry go round 10/01/2012

The world of semiconductors used to be one huge VC fuelled merry go round. VCs pumped in ...

Changing the rules 10/01/2012

Picochip's acquisition by Mindspeed crosses another company from the list of UK ...

Keeping ahead 10/01/2012

Depending upon whose view you subscribe to, the prospects for the UK's economy in 2012 ...

Technology for the sake of it? 03/01/2012

Christmas, eh? All those useful presents. Working as we do in the technology world, ...

Positive signs for 2012 22/12/2011

There's good news for the semiconductor industry as 2011 comes to a close, with Gartner ...

And so this is Christmas? 16/12/2011

Like me, your inbox is no doubt swelling with Christmas emails. Look! There's that ...

European legislation rules 15/12/2011

If you are a manufacturer and seller of own branded EEE, a reseller under own brand or an ...

Bloodhound Project diary 13/12/2011

Late again! Very late again! Apologies! I last updated in August and Nick Chapman has ...

Excited about excitons? 13/12/2011

Part of New Electronics' content during the past year has focused on the future for ...

ISS live feed 07/12/2011

NASA has set up a live feed linking to the International Space Station.

Synopsys buys Magma 01/12/2011

Magma has been nipping at the heels of the leading eda companies for some time, driven by ...

Supply chain house problem 28/11/2011

Still recovering from the impact of Japan's Tsunami disaster earlier this year, the ...

Bionic lenses and rabbits 22/11/2011

A Terminator style bionic contact lens has been developed by researchers in a bid to ...

Building for the future 08/11/2011

There is no denying ARM's success over the years; from its legendary early days in a ...

Time antici … pation 04/11/2011

It is well known to afficionados of the Rocky Horror Show that 'time is fleeting'. The ...

Small companies show the way 25/10/2011

Once again, the British Engineering Excellence Awards (BEEAs) have shown that UK ...

Funding the ‘wonder material’ 11/10/2011

One of the Coalition Government's first acts was to cut a wide range of public spending ...

R&D the way ahead 06/10/2011

Freescale has had a presence in Scotland since 1969, when the East Kilbride site near ...

Graphene gets £50m backing 03/10/2011

The UK has led the research into graphene – rapidly being called the 'wonder material' by ...

Intel commits to Tizen 28/09/2011

In a blog posted on the MeeGo website, Imad Sousou, director, Intel Open Source ...