Engineers and researchers are assembling the technical groundwork for manufacturing semiconductor materials on the Moon, drawing on lunar soil as a raw feedstock for silicon-based devices. The concept ...

Atsuyoshi Koike, the public face of Japan’s effort to muscle back into the semiconductor industry it used to dominate, first needs to prove he can make them on earth.

A powerful light source bigger than a London double-decker bus has set a record: it can create structures on a silicon wafer that are just 8 nanometres (nm) wide. Those are thought to be the smallest ...