TITANIUM AND ZIRCONIUM have traditionally dominated group 4 chemistry. Hafnium, the third member of this group of early transition metals, has been the odd element out. But not anymore. Steady ...

Victory Metals has hailed the latest metallurgical test work at its flagship North Stanmore project in Western Australia as a potential breakthrough for hafnium production.

ONE consequence of the growth of microelectronics has been an exploration of the periodic table reminiscent of European navigators' search for the spice islands half a millennium ago. Then, as now, ...

The market for hafnium, a metal crucial to both the aerospace and nuclear energy industries, may remain a relatively tiny one for now. But look for it to grow much bigger in the global infrastructure ...

Equipment and materials suppliers often talk about the fragmentation of integrated circuit processing. While the number of manufacturers has gone down, the diversity of the underlying semiconductor ...

Forgive my little foolishness but I do like to go back to past claims of how everything is running out and measuring them up against reality. And here's something from the New Scientist published back ...

We are moving into one of the two times of year when the heartbeat of IT journalism develops arrhythmia. People are on holiday or moving around the place, thoughts are turning to enjoying or surviving ...