Hemlock breaks ground on $1.2B Clarksville plant

Hemlock Semiconductor Corp. and Tennessee officials on Thursday broke ground on a $1.2 billion plant and renamed the road leading to the sprawling facility "Solar Way."

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Hemlock breaks ground on $1.2B Tennessee plant

Officials have broken ground on the $1.2 billion Hemlock Semiconductor plant and renamed the road leading to the facility on the outskirts of Clarksville as "Solar Way."

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Chen promoted as CEO of Actions Semiconductor

Chinese semiconductor company Actions Semiconductor Co. said Thursday it has promoted Niccolo Chen to be its new CEO.

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VSEA suffers $14.3M loss in fiscal 3Q

Varian Semiconductor Equipment Associates Inc., which makes equipment used to manufacture semiconductors, on Thursday said it suffered a fiscal third-quarter loss of $14.3 million, as sales plunged amid challenging economic conditions.

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Taiwan mulls loosening semiconductor restrictions

Taiwan is considering loosening its restrictions on Taiwanese semiconductor investment in China, a move that would continue to boost expanded economic ties with the mainland.

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Report: Creditors reach basic accord on Hynix aid

Hynix Semiconductor Inc.'s creditor banks have reached a provisional agreement to pump cash into the money-losing memory chip maker, a newspaper reported Wednesday.

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Since 1975, Nikon has been awarding annual prizes to scientists and enthusiasts who take pictures through a microscope. Popularly known as a maker of professional and consumer cameras, the company is also a major manufacturer of biological and industrial microscopes.

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U.S. Navy researchers are asking two U.S.

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California air regulators approved requirements Thursday to compel chipmakers in Silicon Valley to severely cut greenhouse gases spewing from semiconductor plants.

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NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. – Physicists at Rutgers University have discovered unusual electronic properties in a material that has potential to improve solar cell efficiency and computer chip design.

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The new laser phenomenon has some interesting features. For instance, in a conventional laser relying on low-momentum electrons, electrons often reabsorb the emitted photons, and this reduces overall efficiency.

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For the past several years, researchers have been trying to take advantage of carbon nanotubes' good electrical properties for future nanoscale electronics applications.

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Scientists at McGill University in Montreal say they've discovered a new state of matter that could help extend Moore's Law and allow for the fabrication of more tightly packed transistors, or a new kind of transistor altogether. More Articles

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Hoping to accelerate the development of 450-mm fabs, International Sematech and others have formulated a preliminary standard for 450-mm silicon wafers. But the 450-mm era could get delayed amid the IC downturn and current economic crisis.

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It's got to be Intel, right? The advert describes the company as a world-class semiconductor manufacturer with a broad range of equipment being auctioned off on Nov. 12 and 13. The auction ends at 2:00pm Central European Time on Nov. 14.

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The wait is finally over. After a year in the works, Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) has obtained an investment of up to $8.4 billion from the Abu Dhabi government and separately plans to split the company into two parts, according to reports.

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A new optical fiber material could enable laser-based devices to be built operating at multiple frequencies.

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As computer processor chips grow faster and more complex, they are likely to make it to market with more design bugs.

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IBM is getting around the physical limitations of lithography methods by using mathematical techniques called computational scaling.

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The next major advance in computer processors will likely be the move from today's two-dimensional chips to three-dimensional circuits, and the first three-dimensional synchronization circuitry is now running at 1.4 gigahertz at the University of Rochester. Unlike past attempts  …

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Researchers in the US and Japan have devised a simple way generate a nearly parallel beam of light from a semiconductor laser — without the need for bulky and expensive lenses.

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Focusing semiconductor lasers usually requires bulky optical lenses acting as a "collimator." Researchers have now demonstrated a plasmonic collimator that utilizes grooves etched directly into the semiconductor laser facet.

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When the Sentry Equipment Corporation in Oconomowoc, Wis., was considering how to light its new factory last year, the company's president, Michael Farrell, decided to try something new: light emitting diodes, or L.E.D.'s.

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You may think of lasers as needle-like crisp beams. But the semiconductor lasers used for everything from CDs to fibre-optic broadband are more like the fuzzy, spreading beams from a flashlight.

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A second-generation artificial retina chip called the Argus II Retinal Prosthesis System is beginning clinical trials.

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A preliminary guesstimate by market research group iSuppli suggests the Bill of Materials (BOM) and assembly costs of the latest 8Gbyte 3G iPhone from Apple will be $173, making the device one of the most profitable ever for the company.

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Sigma Designs has developed a second-generation ultrawideband chip set for home networks that can simultaneously run UWB over wireless and coax at rates up to 370 Mbits/second while maintaining a Gbit Ethernet link.

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Roland Kawakami's lab proposes a simple technique for controlling electron spin and current flow Physicists at UC Riverside have made an accidental discovery in the lab that has potential to change how information in computers can be transported or stored.

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Who doesn't dream of increasingly fast computers that consume less and less energy? To design these computers of the future, it is important to be able to control nanoscale strain in the processors. Until now, this strain remained difficult to observe.

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If you were looking for a new way to make semiconducting diamond, you might not have thought of starting with tequila. Diamond film is tougher than silicon, so it could be useful for devices that must operate at high temperatures or under other harsh conditions.

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Archrivals Nvidia Corp.

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