Gordon Moore, who made the semiconductor industry's most famous prediction in Moore's Law, was singularly delinquent in other predictions.  ...

The Koreans aren't called 'The Italians of Asia' for nothing. If anyone was going to get over-excited by shortages in semiconductor supply, it was likely to be the Koreans. Right on cue, Hynix said yesterday it would increase capex 130%...

Once upon a time, a Merseyside glass manufacturer decided to go in for microelectronics. The company invented a fine-grained FPGA technology and had some success in licensing it.  ...

Texas Instruments acknowledged earlier this week that it is having supply problems. TI, remember, is the company which lost more employees this year than any company in the industry cutting 3,200 jobs at the beginning of the year.  ...

A paper from SEMI, the trade body for the semiconductor equipment industry, asks: Are we doing enough to meet future demand?  ...