Manufacturing

Globalfoundries will roll out a 12nm finfet process at its New York fab next year which is 15% denser with 10% better performance than its 14nm process. “We plan to introduce new client and graphics products based on GF’s 12nm process technology in 2018 as a part of our focus on accelerating our product and technology momentum,” says AMD CTO ...

The already constrained supply of wafers is about to tighten further, reports Digitimes. 3D NAND, Chinese foundries and China memory fabs are driving 12 inch demand. LCD driver ICs, fingerprint sensors, power management ICs and CMOS image sensors are driving 8-inch demand. Wafer suppliers are in no hurry to increase capacity having been caught out by over-hasty capacity expansions in ...

Moore’s Law has been declared dead before. Progress may be slowing, but can new materials save it?

Newport Wafer Fab, which started in 1982 as Inmos’ UK volume production fab, has been sold as a going concern.

Caroline Hayes shares some of the highlights for visitors to the Northern Manufacturing & Electronics show in Manchester.

Phil Valentine, MD at European Trade & Exhibition Services, explains how this year’s Northern Manufacturing Show reflects changes in the industry.

LEDs can shed infrared light on low cost, long lifetime sensors to monitor carbon dioxide levels in buildings, suggests Ralph Weir.

E Ink Holdings, the Taiwan-based electronic ink printing technology firm, is continuing its partnership and supply deal with Plastic Logic, the Germany-based  manufacturer of flexible electrophoretic displays (EPDs). E Ink and Plastic Logic have been cooperating to develop the EPD market for more than 10 years. Johnson Lee, President of E Ink Holdings, writes: “One of E Ink’s key market ...

A commitment to the European CE mark on consumer products after Brexit is vital for UK manufacturers, say a lobby of business groups.

Soitec to spend $40m setting up an FD-SOI wafer pilot line at its Singapore facility