FOA and SEMI to merge

After several years of close partnership, SEMI and the Fab Owners Association (FOA) have merged. Driving manufacturing efficiencies remains the overriding purpose of the FOA – where the “A” now stands for “Alliance.” With FOA’s integration with SEMI, the association will leverage SEMI’s global infrastructure and connections to over 2,000 members around the world to ...

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Toshiba launches RC100 SSDs

Toshiba has launched the RC100 series of NVMe M.2 SSDs for the retail, e-tail, system integrator, and channel markets. Utilising Toshiba’s 64-layer, 3-bit-per-cell TLC BiCS FLASH and in-house developed SSD controller in a single package, the RC100 was built to offer consumers a viable alternative to pricier high-end NVMe SSDs. In addition to affordability, RC100 SSDs ...

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US Factories Added 196,000 Jobs in 2017

WASHINGTON--The Bureau of Labor Statistics recently reported that the United States added 196,000 factory jobs in 2017, including 25,000 jobs in December. Scott Paul, president of the Alliance for American Manufacturing, says that factory jobs are growing at a faster rate than jobs in the overall economy.