Despite the collected wisdom of those who know about this stuff (i.e. congressional staffers) that it is unlikely there will be an intelligence authorization bill for the third year in row, I was ...

Facing pricing pressure from IC design customers, Winbond Electronics plans to outsource 0.35- and 0.25-micron logic IC orders, primarily to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) but ...

FREMONT, Calif. — After years of select resistance and flat growth in the marketplace, the IC-test outsourcing business is expected to gain traction and double in growth by 2005, according to the top ...

Face it: Like it or not, design outsourcing is becoming more popular in the semiconductor industry. Those who favor outsourcing chip design outside of the United States point to the advantages of ...

Major Japan-based IDM companies including Renesas, Sony and Toshiba are set to increase outsourcing of backend processing for logic ICs, and have approached existing and potential partners for closer ...