16.05.2025 • News
Joint development of data storage on 300 mm wafers
NY Creates and Fraunhofer IPMS will work together to develop and characterize devices that are critical to advancing the portfolios of both organizations.
semiconductor industry
24.03.2025 • News
Imec and Zeiss strengthen partnership for semiconductor innovation
This partnership supports the further development of key semiconductor technologies, in particular high-NA EUV lithography
25.02.2025 • News
€227 million from the EU for a new AMS Osram facility
Company investments in new generations of innovative microchips are totaling 567 million euros by the time full production is reached in 2030.
25.02.2025 • News
Qant and IMS Chips: Blueprint for semiconductor manufacturing of photonic AI chips
Innovative manufacturing approach upcycles existing CMOS facility accelerating development of energy-efficient hardware, enabling supply chain resilience and technology independence.
09.01.2025 • News
Fraunhofer expands Apecs’ possibilities
As part of the pilot line, the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Solid State Physics will continue to expand its semiconductor research infrastructure.
09.12.2024 • News
Coherent, SkyWater, X-Fab to advance US supply chain security
Proposed CHIPS investments in Minnesota and Texas would help enhance production capacity of important semiconductor manufacturing components.
14.11.2024 • News
New educational initiative for the German chip industry
Securing skilled workers for the chip industry – with this goal in mind, the nationwide flagship project “Skilled workers for microelectronics: skills4chips” launched on November 1, 2024.
08.11.2024 • News
Zeiss Microscopy opens Semiconductor Applications Lab
State-of-the-art innovation laboratory in Dresden, Germany, pushes the limits of advanced semiconductor applications.
01.10.2024 • News
Semicon and integrated photonics leaders gather in Eindhoven
500 business, government and academic leaders from organizations will discuss closer collaboration between the semicon and integrated photonics industries.
04.09.2024 • News
LPKF builds network to innovate glass substrate production
Company joins forces with partners to build glass-focused supply chain for advanced semiconductor packaging.
29.07.2024 • News
3D-Micromac systems for Infineon
Laser micromachining expert exclusively supplies new Dresden Smart Power Fab with the microVEGA FC laser-trimming system.
12.06.2024 • News
99 % usable area on 100 mm bulk aluminum nitride substrate achieved
Crystal IS and Asahi Kasei improve wafer quality based on specification for UVC LEDs.
02.05.2024 • News • Machine Vision
Avnet becomes Platinum Partner of NXP
Avnet Embedded has become a “Platinum Partner” of NXP Semiconductors, which the chip manufacturer awards as part of its “Global Partner Program”.
12.04.2024 • News
Technology node development for semiconductor manufacturing
PI contributes to the EU-funded project 14ACMOS to maintain key manufacturing technology leadership for semiconductor production in Europe.
01.02.2024 • News
High-NA-EUV for global microchip production
The first machine for the new lithography technology includes an optical system from Zeiss and was recently delivered by ASML.
14.07.2023 • News
100 million euros for Smart Photonics
The Dutch foundry for PICs has secured an additional round of funding from a group of strategic industrial and financial players.
03.07.2023 • News
ASML and Imec will work more closely together in the future
Partners sign memorandum of understanding to promote semiconductor research and sustainable innovation in Europe.
19.12.2022 • News
PIC Summit: “Everything the community hoped for”
Over 300 visitors from more than twenty countries enjoyed the first edition of PIC Summit Europe in Eindhoven.
Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Solid State Physics IAF
X-FAB Silicon Foundries SE
Carl Zeiss IMT GmbH
LPKF Laser & Electronics AG
Physik Instrumente (PI) GmbH & Co. KG
Carl Zeiss AG
Asahi Kasei Europe GmbH
Avnet EMG GmbH
SMART Photonics
Carl Zeiss SMT GmbH
Cooperatie Photon Delta U.A.
Q.ANT GmbH
Fraunhofer Institut für Photonische Mikrosysteme IPMS
Ferdinand-Braun-Institut, Leibniz-Institut für Höchstfrequenztechnik
ams-OSRAM AG
imec
Infineon Technologies AG