Items Tagged with 'wafer'

GlobalFoundries (GF) announced advancements in the industry’s first RFSOI foundry solution manufactured on 300 mm wafers. 

Worldwide Si wafer area shipments in the second quarter of 2022 surpassed the record set in the Q1 2022, edging up 1 percent quarter-over-quarter to 3,704 million square inches, according to the SEMI SMG in its quarterly report of the Si wafer industry

As the 200 mm wafer test market continues to expand, MPI Corp. is introducing a new fully automatic wafer probe system. The TS2500-RF addresses multiple production test market requirements which include radio frequency (RF) communication devices and discrete passive components.

II-VI completed the acquisition of ANADIGICS on March 15, after a surprisingly prolonged auction that included GaAs Labs, II-VI and an unnamed Chinese company. The final price of $78 million was 2.4 times higher than the original deal secured by GaAs Labs.

Advancing semiconductor technology, X-FAB Silicon Foundries is putting itself at the vanguard of wideband gap semiconductor production by announcing the availability of its silicon carbide (SiC) offering from its wafer fab in Lubbock, Texas.

TowerJazz, the global specialty foundry leader, announced it has signed an agreement with Maxim Integrated Products Inc. to purchase Maxim’s 8-inch fabrication facility in San Antonio, Texas.

Qorvo Inc., a leading provider of core technologies and RF solutions for mobile, infrastructure and aerospace/defense applications, announced it has successfully scaled its proprietary QGaN25 gallium nitride (GaN) on silicon carbide (SiC) process to produce monolithic microwave integrated circuits (MMICs) on six-inch wafers. The transition from 4-inch to 6-inch wafers is expected to approximately double Qorvo's GaN on SiC manufacturing capacity and favorably impact manufacturing costs – significantly accelerating the affordable manufacture of RF devices.