Siltronic (SLTCY) faces profitability challenges due to cyclical market dynamics and lack of pricing power despite growth.

As a result, IC industry capacity is also becoming more concentrated and this trend is especially prevalent in 300mm wafer technology. Figure 1 lists the 300mm installed capacity leaders for 2012 and ...

Capacity for 200mm wafers forecast to slip more than 10 points during same period. July 03, 2013 -- Since 2008, the majority of integrated circuit production has taken place on 300mm wafers. In terms ...

Pragmatic claims that its Pragmatic Park site at Durham, northeast England, is the UK's first production facility for producing 300mm semiconductor wafers. This will provide it with the capacity ...

If that were not enough, the devices in our key markets are currently manufactured with feature dimensions ranging from above 180nm down to below 28nm using older equipment handling 200mm wafers as ...

The company also announced an even more ambitious technology named System-on-Wafer (SoW) that will allow for 3D stacking of logic and memory directly on top of a 300mm wafer-sized chip.

Chinese entrants like National Silicon Industry Group will limit industry profitability once they scale up 300mm wafer production. Opportunities to acquire small distressed peers have run out as ...

The project was to be Intel’s first advanced 3D chip packaging facility outside of the US, the first 300mm wafer fabrication facility for Malaysia and the first ASML Deep Ultraviolet lithography ...

“The Single-Wafer Moderate/High-Temperature SPM tool is a prime example of ACM’s commitment to innovation in solving customers’ challenges in high-volume 300mm semiconductor manufacturing. We’re ...