Innoscience, a leading Chinese GaN specialist, plans to expand its monthly production of 8-inch (200mm) wafers from 13,000 to ...

GlobalWafers Co., a Taiwanese manufacturer of silicon wafers used in chip production, is in line to receive $400 million in US government help for projects in Texas and Missouri.

Japanese silicon wafer manufacturer Sumco has announced plans to cease silicon wafer production at its Miyazaki plant in Japan by the end of 2026, as part of its strategy to improve profitability ...

WASHINGTON (dpa-AFX) - The U.S. Department of Commerce has awarded funding worth $406 million to two companies to boost the domestic production of silicon wafers in the United States.

REC says it will maintain silicon gas equipment in Moses Lake so that it’s ready to serve battery material companies when they start large-scale production.

Our partnership with ficonTEC enables us to deliver the first high-volume double-sided test cell for silicon photonics wafer test to meet the quickly evolving needs of the industry.

What Happened: The grant will facilitate the establishment of the first high-volume U.S. production of 300-mm wafers for advanced semiconductors and expand silicon-on-insulator wafer production.

The U.S. Department of Commerce said it will award millions in federal dollars to expand silicon wafer production at a St. Charles County facility.

Because it can be conductive, semiconductive, or even insulative, silicon is the most common material for chip wafers. After initial manufacturing, silicon wafers undergo a process called doping, ...

The funding will support Wolfspeed's silicon carbide wafer production at its new facilities in North Carolina and Marcy, New York, part of a broader $6 billion expansion that promises to create ...