RIBER, a global market leader for molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) equipment serving the semiconductor industry, is announcing the delivery of the first MBE 8000 system, the world’s largest MBE machine, ...

Solar power still costs more than energy gained from burning coal or gas. That fact may put opponents of subsidies up in arms, but it’s great for companies that automate photovoltaic (PV) ...

There’s nothing more freeing than to be an engineer with no perceptible budget in sight. [BrendaEM] walks us through a teardown of a machine that was designed under just such a lack of constraint. It ...

Solar start-up 1366 Technologies is working on a technology that promises to dramatically cut the cost of solar cell manufacturing. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and ...

ORLANDO, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Fonon Corporation, a multi-market holding company, R&D center, equipment designer and manufacturer of advanced laser material processing systems for subtractive and ...

The In-Sight 1700 wafer reader, a compact machinevision sensor, combines ID software and image processing to identify and track semiconductor wafers through the manufacturing process. The In-Sight ...

Chinese chipmaking tools vendor Kingsemi launched a new generation of its wafer coating and developing machine the FT (III) 300 on Dec. 17. The machine adopts a symmetrical design, with 36 spin ...

Startup Cerebras Systems has unveiled the world’s largest microprocessor, a waferscale chip custom-built for machine learning. The 1.2 trillion transistor silicon wafer incorporates 400,000 cores, 18 ...

Solar start-up 1366 Technologies is developing a technology to convert raw silicon ingots directly into solar cells, a process that could slash solar manufacturing costs. The Lexington, Mass.-based ...

A new technique measures free-form wafer shape, write Marco Franchi, Wooptix, and Leon van Dijk, Ronald Otten, Richard Van ...