semiconductors

An earthquake hit Taiwan early on Wednesday with a current death toll of nine, 800 injuries, and expectations that the numbers will rise. The tremor, reported to be the strongest in 25 years, toppled at least 26 buildings across the…

ROHM Semiconductor today announced the new BD9xxM5-C series of 45V rated, 500mA output primary LDO regulators (BD933M5EFJ-C, BD950M5EFJ-C, BD900M5EFJ-C, BD933M5WEFJ-C, BD950M5WEFJ-C, BD900M5WEFJ-C). These devices are suitable for supplying…

The US notified Advanced Micro Devices that the AI chip it designed for the Chinese market is still too powerful to sell without a license from the Commerce Department, throwing up a roadblock for the company’s exports of advanced…

There’s a new way to make and manipulate a class of high-temperature semiconductors, and an international team, including Rutgers University–New Brunswick, is front and center of the process. The result could be the ability to create…

Moore's Law predicted that the number of transistors on a chip would double every two years. Limitations exist. Today's advanced chips can house nearly 50 billion transistors in a thumbnail's space. Packing more in is more than problematic.…

Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology created the world’s first functional semiconductor made from graphene, opening the door to a new way of doing electronics. Silicon is reaching its limit due to increasingly faster computing…

Many materials in conventional semiconductor devices come from environmentally damaging extraction processes, are high-risk pollutants, and/or pose severe human health hazards. At the same time, the ever-growing demand for speed, large…

China is expanding its IC capabilities at all costs, and the “game” is playing out internationally. The stakes are high for all involved, especially China and the U.S. Addressing what it views as a significant threat, the U.S. government…

It's no wonder, with all of the sanctions on technology export to a handful of countries, that there will be several examples of criminal activities. Here's one of them. A couple from Montreal and a man from Brooklyn, New York, were…

Canon recently announced an innovative approach to the production of cutting-edge semiconductor components. Its new “nanoimprint lithography” system is a response to ASML in the extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography machine sector. ASML’s…