Manufacturing

Light Science Technologies Holdings is to float on the London Stock Exchange to increase the manufacturing capacity of its contract electronics manufacturing division, and strengthen its position in the agricultural lighting. Trading on AIM under ‘LST’, the group raised £5m in October. “We are delighted to be trading on the London Stock Exchange through our AIM IPO, and are excited ...

Samsung has begun mass producing 14nm DRAM using EUV technology. Following the company’s shipment of its  first EUV DRAM in March of last year, Samsung has increased the number of EUV layers to five to deliver today’s  DDR5 devices. As DRAM continues to scale down the 10nm-range, EUV technology becomes increasingly important to improve patterning accuracy for higher performance and ...

Filtronic’s Queen’s Award for Enterprise for International Trade Award, announced in April, has now formally arrived in the company’s Sedgefield facility, courtesy of the Lord Lieutenant of County Durham, Sue Snowdon. “To have a company here in County Durham developing market-leading RF technologies, and with world-class manufacturing facilities, is fantastic for the local economy.,” said Snowdon (right). “It was a ...

Canadian thin-film display company Ynvisible Interactive and the UK-based printed electronics company PragmatIC Semiconductor are to develop integrated flexible display modules. The non-binding technology partnership and supply agreement will last for three years, with services and deliverables of up to $2m. ‍The reflective displays are very thin and take little power, needing only a pulse every few minutes to prevent ...

Renesas  plans to boost capacity for high-end MCUs by 50% to the equivalent of 40,000 200mm wafers a month, mainly by securing more foundry capacity. It plans to increase capacity for low-end MCUs by about 70% to over 30,000 wafers per month, mainly by expanding in-house facilities. “We have been increasing supply, but demand has also been strong as manufacturers make up for lost production time,” ...

E3D has announced a replacement for its much-copied V6 3D printing hot end, which will be made in-house rather than by sub-contractors. The UK-based company is a globally-significant hot-end producer for professional users, with companies including Prusa, Lulzbot and even Creality in China incorporating its products. Its new hot-end is branded Revo, and is an ‘all-metal’ design, allowing printing at ...

Intel will announce, later this year, a new US site which will have eight new fabs, said CEO Pat Gelsinger (pictured on a digger) at the ground-breaking ceremony for its two new $20 billion Arizona foundry fabs. “As the only U.S.-based leading-edge chipmaker, we are committed to building on this long-term investment and helping the United States regain semiconductor leadership,” ...

Earlier today, Infineon opened its fab  for power electronics on 300mm  thin wafers at its Villach site in Austria. At €1.6 billion, the investment made by the semiconductor group represents one of the largest such projects in the microelectronics sector in Europe. The Villach site is one of the world’s most modern fabs and was opened by Infineon CEO Reinhard ...

X-Fab and Ligentec have teamed up to offer “Europe’s largest capacity foundry service for integrated photonic circuits”, said X-Fab. In particular, they are talking about silicon nitride photonics, which Ligentech specialises in. “Silicon nitride offers superior performance to manage the light in the chip circuitry, with unprecedented low propagation losses and high-power handling,” said Ligentec co-founder Michael Zervas. “While there ...

West Midlands-based contract manufacturer Kasdon Electronics has moved into a new 20,000ft2 building in Willenhall, allowing it to consolidate operations that were previously spread over two other buildings in the town. The new facility houses the company’s five production lines: one for high volume, two for runs up to 1,000 off and one for prototyping and pre-production. Founded in 1997, ...