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| Future Horizons predicts double digit industry growth The mid term forecast from the analyst company gives rise to a global double digit industry growth hope.  | |
| Hynix Semiconductor announces closure of Eugene fabrication plant The production of the fabrication plant will be eventually stopped by end of September. | |
| Capital spending cutbacks put IC industry on “collision course” With IC fab utilisation over 90%, higher IC average selling prices forecast to result. | |
| Zarlink revenue increases in Q1 First quarter revenue increases by 10 percent versus fourth quarter Fiscal 2008 results, driven by increasing sales across all major product groups. | |
| Australian export drives Chinese innovation Altium invests in new China education, licence amnesty programmes to accelerate software exports to China. | |
| Agilent goes Down Under Agilent Technologies’ Workflow chosen by Metabolomics Australia for major Initiative. | |
| Breaking partnership JPSA partners with DynTest Technologies for wafer scriber/breaker development. | |
| Advantest president and CEO will join SEMI board of directors Toshio Maruyama, president and CEO of Advantest Corporation, named to SEMI International board of directors. | |
| DuPont expands manufacturing New Singapore plant expands global manufacturing network for DuPont Vespel parts. | |
| SPIE joins AAAS In encouraging members to advance public’s science awareness, SPIE has declared its support for an appeal from the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) for its members to add their voices to the public dialogue on science and technology. | |
| INFICON cancels shares Cancellation on July 24, 2008, of 235,587 registered shares bought back under the 2007 share repurchase programme. Share capital of INFICON Holding now consists of 2,141,175 registered shares at CHF 5.00 par value each. | |
| Applied Materials starts work on manufacturing centre expansion in Taiwan This expansion is supposed to increase Applied's ability to meet the demand for flat panel display equipment and thin film solar manufacturing equipment. | |
| NXP overruled by Dutch court Radboud University is allowed to publish Mifare Classic Chip article. The Mifare Classic device is used in several public transport systems around the world, including London's Oyster card network. | |
| AMD board of directors elects Dirk Meyer president and CEO Hector Ruiz named executive chairman of AMD. | |
| Alchimer wins 'Best of the West' Award at SEMICON West 2008 The company has won the 2008 Best of the West Award at SEMICON West for its eG ViaCoat electrografted copper seed layer for TSV technology. | |
| Cavium Networks to acquire Taiwan based Star Semiconductor The network chip maker expands its strength with the Taiwanese design house. | |
| Aquest and Gores confirm proposal to acquire Asyst Technologies Aquest Systems confirmed that on July 9th they submitted a proposal to Asyst Technologies to acquire the company for $6.50 per share in cash and that Asyst and Aquest met on July 15th with respect to such proposal. | |
| REC ASA secures NOK 5 billion in silane sales contracts Under the agreements, REC will through 2014 deliver gas worth close to USD 1 billion, approximately NOK 5 billion. | |
| M+W Zander completes energy supply for AMD The project for energy supply to AMD's chip factory in Dresden with efficient trigeneration has been completed. | |
| Samsung and Sun Microsystems collaborate The companies collaborate to develop new ultra endurance flash memory for SSD products in server applications. | |
| iSupply acquires Telematics The analyst company acquires automotive electronics analysis firm Telematics Research Group. Terms of the acquisition are not being disclosed. | |
| NVIDIA joins the SOI Industry Consortium The company joins the SOI Consortium as a twenty third member which is open to any company, organisation or academic institution with an interest in SOI. | |
| New filter technologies for PV and semi Pall Corporation announces new technologies for solar energy and semiconductor industry. | |
| Linde and Schmid collaborate to boost silane production New plant to support rapidly expanding solar cell market. | |
| EV Group files patent infringement lawsuit against the 3M Company The company has filed an alleged infringement lawsuit at the federal court of New York. | |
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As mentioned in previous blogs, design enablement is a key enabler to fabless semiconductor design and manufacture, without question. The purpose of this blog (in 500 words) is to compare and contrast two very different design enablement strategies and engage the semiconductor community in a meaningful discussion.
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