Wafer prices rose 22% in the week through Thursday, the biggest gain since February 2023, according to data from the China Silicon Industry Association.

Centuries ago, alchemists worked furiously to convert the common metal lead to valuable gold. Today, chemists are repurposing discarded solar panels to create valuable organic compounds from ...

A new terahertz technique reveals nanometer-scale PN junction depths in silicon chips, enabling faster, non-contact inspection for advanced semiconductor manufacturing.

Premier Energis and Sino-American Silicon Products Inc to establish a 2GW per annum silicon wafer manufacturing facility in India.

India’s Premier Energies and Taiwan’s Sino-American Silicon Products have signed a joint venture agreement that will see the development of a 2 GW solar wafer manufacturing plant in India.

Discover the incredible process of how billions of microchips are made from sand. It all begins with silicon extraction from sand, which is then refined into silicon wafers. These wafers are the ...

Taiwanese silicon wafer manufacturer GlobalWafers said on Friday it would invest an additional $4 billion in the United States to meet growing customer demand there, as it officially opened its ...

First-quarter 2025 operating margins of GlobalWafers, its parent Sino-American Silicon, and competitor Sumco all declined sequentially. All three firms suffered from tepid 200 mm wafer shipments ...

A South Korean semiconductor-grade silicon wafer manufacturer, SK Siltron has locations in east Asia, Europe and Bay County, Michigan.

Supreme Court upholds rules requiring background checks for ‘ghost guns’ The Supreme Court on March 26 upheld Biden-era federal regulations on “ghost guns,” mail-order kits that allow people to build ...

An industry first, ficonTEC’s new 300 mm double-sided electro-optical wafer tester is compatible with existing semiconductor ATE architectures and is targeted at AI-driven silicon photonics computing ...