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Semiconductor Companies

• Advance Micro Devices
• Analog Devices
• Avago Technologies
• Atmel
• Cirrus Logic
• Freescale Semiconductor
• Fujitsu
• Infineon Technologies

• Intel
• Linear Integrated Systems

• Maxim Integrated Products
  
• Micron Technology
• NXP Semiconductors
• ON Semiconductor
• Samsung Electronics
• SanDisk

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• Solid State Technology :
•  Processes: Front end, backend, etching, deposition, oxidation, etch, manufacture, fab, foundry. 
• Lithograph:
• Mask Layers, Mask Aligner, Masking,  Immersion lithography, Photoresist (PR), Residues


• Mask Layers,


• Packaging
• Future Fab International : Wafer Processing, Lithography, Process Gases, Chemicals and Materials, Metrology, Failure Analysis, Final Manufacturing, Semiconductor Testing, Design for Manufacturability
• International Semiconductors Process, Memories, Circuit Technology Roadmap 
  
• GlobalSpec Data Sheet for Circuits, Microprocessors,  Memory Chips, Programmable Logic Devices, etc
  
• Process, Device, and Circuit Global Standards and Codes - Searchable Database of Industry Codes and Standards
  

• EDN: Electronics Design, Strategy, News
  
• Test & Measurment World
  
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• EE Times - Circuit, Chip, Process News
  
• Solid State Technology
  
• Electronic New - Circuit, Chip, Process News
  
• Cnet News.com - Semiconductors
  
• Semiconductor Manufacturing and Design Community
• Semiconductor International
  
• Micromagazine.com Archive - Semiconductor Process, Product and Devices
  
• Digital Times
  
• IEEE Transactions on electron Devices
  
• Electron Device Letters, IEEE
  
• Circuits and Devices Magazine, IEEE
  
• IEEE Transactions on Manufacturing Technology
  
• X-bit labs - Latest news and evaluations of CPU, Chipsets, Memory, Mainboards, Video, Storage Multimedia, mobile
  
• Digit-life  - Latest news and evaluations of  Platform, Coolers, HDD/DVD ,Video, Sound, Network, Imaging, Mobile
  

• Global Database of Companies' Technical Disclosures  - Searchable Data Base of International Prior Art ( IP ).
  
• Fabtech - News, New Products, White Papers - Wafer processing, Fabrication (Fab), Clean Room, Materials and Gases, Lithography, Critical Components
  
• Introduction to Semiconductor Device Manufacturing
  
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• Semiconductor Glossary
  
• Package Terminology
  
• Advanced Packaging; IC Packaging Processes, Wafer Dicing, Die Placement
  
• Semiconductor Notes are one-page reviews of the variety of topics of current interest in semiconductor science and engineering
  

• FinFET Layout Design and Variability
• IEDM 2012 Program
• 2011 IEDM Full Technical Program, Previews
• SSCC 2011 Highlights- 20-nm Process Challenges, Samsung 512-pins DRAM, Intel
• 2010 International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors (ITRS) Updates
• All about 3D integration - Design, Process, Devices, Integration, Manufacturing Articles and Forums
• ISSCC 2010 - Intel, Renesas, Toshiba show mobile media chips, Inductive coupling packs flash drive, Chip links hit 20 Gbits/s, power lows
• ITRS 2009 Processes, Litography, Interconnect Roadmap
• Intel Developer Forum 2009: Performance, Reliability, and Future Direction of Solid State Drive (SSD)
• Flash Memory Summit 2009: Fusion-io, STEC, Denali and Other Presentations
• IEDM 2008 Preview
• IEDM Technical Program - 2007