Controls are turning into commodities according to some industry experts The key difference is in how control intelligence is tuned to specific end user needs As Geoff Walker director of automation and drives at Schneider Electric puts it "We're Learn more

We live in a world where modernization in the compound semiconductor market is associated with the fine-tuning of scribing and breaking semiconductor wafers -- a process based on principles similar to the art of glass cutting In the market as far Learn more

From semiconductor equipment to packaging machinery today's motion solutions must be fast flexible and smart Moreover implementations often face harrowing deadline pressure as discussed in the examples below.High-Precision Scribe Dicing Learn more

Industry: Industrial Controls/Devices/Systems Semiconductor Product: Data Acquisition LabVIEW Motion Control Programmable Automation Controllers (PACs) Vision Challenge: Developing a highly automated wafer scriber that requires minimal service Learn more

In 8 of every 10 mobile telephones in 4 of every 10 color televisions and in countless computer peripherals and cars lives a Philips Semiconductors integrated circuit Most people rarely think of the design technology required for these chips much Learn more

Over the last half century or so the electronics industry has relied on silicon as the foundation for all electronics-based products To accommodate exponential growth demands for larger and faster transistors chip designers and manufacturers have Learn more

Microlithography i.e. a group of technologies used to create micron- or sub-micron-scale structures on silicon wafers and other materials is a key enabling technology of the electronics industry and has an important role to play in the life Learn more

The chemical mechanical planarization or polishing (CMP) process is one of the vital processes in the production of semiconductor devices which uses CMP slurries and pads to planarize the surface of wafers CMP becomes increasingly important to IC Learn more

For decades progress in microelectronics has relied on the continued miniaturization of the devices and wiring on silicon wafers in order to increase the processing power and memory density of computer chips As device dimensions are scaled into Learn more

Santa Cruz CA Nov 21 2003 -- A new market report dedicated to 300mm (12 in.) wafer manufacturing facilities lists 25 such wafer fabs currently online with combined capacity of almost 400,000 wafers per month when ramped to full production.The Learn more