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The road to the Internet is paved with Silicon." Intel CEO Craig Barrett served up that bromide a few weeks ago as the chip giant heralded its move to 300-mm […]

Dog days have taken on a new meaning this summer. At last month's Semicon West, semiconductor-equipment vendors, having grown accustomed to runaway industry growth, glimpsed the leading edge of a […]

It's at times like this that we miss the Semiconductor Industry Association's book-to-bill ratio. For all its faults, the book-to-bill was a good barometer of the electronics industry's relative strength […]

It's not surprising that the road to the high-technology stock boom was paved in silicon and that chip makers have long reigned among the darlings of Wall Street. Silicon can […]

A stream of bad news about dipping earnings, pending layoffs and rising inventories has flowed with depressing consistency of late from the softening world markets for electronics, computers and communications […]

When the Asian economies headed south earlier this year, market watchers warned the U.S. electronics industry would soon feel the impact as Korea and other countries scrambled to export their […]

What's the nation's newest special-interest group? The U.S. semiconductor industry. The core of our high-technology/information economy, the tiny microchip, is at the center of a massive lobbying campaign aimed at […]

The roiling of the world's capital markets is causing shock waves throughout the electronics industry. Chip and system makers in the United States, Europe, Japan and Asia are monitoring the […]

I don't know about you, but I was half-expecting this industry to slow down a bit during the summer. I wasn't exactly planning a vacation-I know better than that-but I […]

Anyone who has been around this industry long enough to remember the whipsaw days of old-when the semiconductor business cycle flailed wildly between boom and bust-should be listening carefully to […]

Midway through the second quarter, the electronics industry continues its robust growth and vibrant market expansion. At the recent 11th annual In-Stat forum, in Scottsdale, Ariz., forecasters noted that growth […]

At first blush, the very idea that a systems house would even think of "outsourcing" its design engineering work seems anathema. But earlier this month another major systems house made […]

NEW YORK--In the absence of specific details on the exact nature of the 'testing irregularities' affecting certain l ots of Texas Instruments discrete and integrated circuits shipped to defense contractors, [...]

SAN MATEO, Calif. -- In an ironic twist to the ongoing trade war in random access memories, U.S. semiconductor makers are being forced to consider purchases of Japanese-made memory test [...]

NEW YORK--A late-year sag in the semiconductor industry book-to-bill ratio is dampening the business outlook for automatic test equipment makers, most of whom expect curtailed 1985 capital outlays for new [...]

The anticipated growth in new-generation logic, memory, and linear ICs -- and of circuit boards populated with these denser, faster devices -- is expected to spur capital outlays for component [...]

The article focuses on the impact of the unraveling of Crolles2 CMOS technology alliance on research and development in the semiconductor industry in France. The alliance has been a cornerstone of a complex technology and business environment in France that brought together businesses, universities and public research centers. Now Crolles2's devolution could curtail or cut off the cluster's access to leadingedge semiconductor know-how, especially in CMOS embedded technologies.

The article reports on the launch of "EE Times Europe." The "EE Times Europe" will be launched as an expanded multilanguage web site providing balance global coverage with local reporting from Germany, France, Great Britain, and Scandinavia. It will also expand regional news coverage to Israel, Russia, and Eastern Europe and will introduce a companion bimonthly tabloid print and digital edition of "EE Times Europe."