The groundbreaking ceremony for China’s first ‘200mm wafer semiconductor equipment verification line’ was held in Changsha High-tech Zone, Changsha, Hunan Province, late last month.

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Worldwide wafer fab equipment (WFE) spending is on pace to total $33 billion in 2012, a decline of 8.9 percent from 2011 spending of $36.2...

The Japanese earthquake has resulted in the suspension of one-quarter of the global production of silicon wafers used to make semiconductors, IHS iSupply estimates. Manufacturing...