Amkor said Monday it will start a wafer bumping plant in Singapore in the second half of 2006 and the new plant is expected to operate at full capacity by 2009

Government agencies will use indicators to monitor the development of the projects by AU Optronics, Chunghwa Picture Tubes and Powerchip Semiconductor. Those projects are now awaiting the approval of their environment impact studies.

The new "11th Five-Year Plan" for the IC industry is also on the way. It earmarks as much as RMB300 billion to be invested within the IC industry during the 11th Five-Year Plan period

But reducing the cost of the cells is critical if the GaAs-based cells, which are fabricated on germanium substrates, are to cross over from high-value satellite applications to terrestrial deployment.

Conservative politicians vying to embrace renewable energy may sound like an environmentalist's dream world, but there's a catch. The government money beckons at the worst time in the solar industry's economic cycle...

By 2011, NanoMarkets expects that display applications using thin-film electronics (excluding LCD displays) will reach $7.3 billion...

Micron's complaint alleges that Rambus destroyed evidence and provided false testimony to extract licensing fees or damages from Micron Technology.

HelioVolt Corp. (Austin, Texas) has developed a process based on rapid thermal annealing and anodic bonding that allows high-performance copper-indium-gallium-selinide (CIGS) films to be deposited on just about any substrate...

U.S. President George Bush visited United Solar Ovonic on Monday to help promote the renewable-energy plan he introduced in his State of the Union address.

Asian chip stocks such as Samsung Electronics and Toshiba eased on Wednesday following a broker downgrade of the sector, keeping a lid on regional markets.

Hynix said Tuesday it has no plan to raise $1 billion in the equity markets as reported by the Financial Times earlier in the day.

ASML has won support from its unionized workforce for 24-hour, seven days-a-week production during market peaks as a result of a flexible labor model centered around a three-year time bank for employees.

The legal war between Rambus and the rest of the chip industry flared up again Tuesday, when the company was accused of intentionally shredding documents that cast doubts on the validity of some of its patents.