How Samsung beat Japan Inc.: How Samsung made the transition from a consumer electronics dwarf to a global brand is a well-told story. Less well-known is the story of how Samsung achieved its current supremacy. More...

Is China into chips?: A few years and billions of dollars after Chinese companies stormed into the silicon foundry market, at least one analyst wonders if being a top player in the global chip business is still a Chinese priority. More...

Albany NanoTech goes clean: Seeking to replicate its success in semiconductors, R&D specialist Albany NanoTech and its parent organization are bringing its collaboration model over to clean technology. Will it work? More...

10 fab technologies on the hot seat: Our report lists 10 fab technologies that could make or break future IC scaling. These fab technologies are on the ''hot seat.'' Some are doomed to fail, while others are under pressure. More...

35 people, places & things: We are witnessing the integration of technology with society to an unprecedented degree. In this special report, we offer a glimpse of the next 35 years--what's coming down the pike, and how we might begin to make sense of it. More...

Top 10 predictions for semis in 2008: To help sort out chip market confusion, EE Times semiconductor editor Mark LaPedus offers his own chip forecasts--and other predictions--for 2008. So, what will happen to AMD, Freescale, IBM Micro, SMIC and others? More...

Market intelligence: Ethernet is poised to dominate all aspects of networking, but the new speeds will have effects that ripple out in various ways. That's the conclusion of one of several analysis reports available from EE Times Market Intelligence Unit. More...

Silicon 60 version 7.0 The EE Times 60 Emerging Startups list, first published in April 2004, has been updated to version 7.0 to reflect the latest corporate, commercial, technology and market conditions. More...