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Micron launches industry's first enterprise SATA solid state drives built on 64-layer 3D NAND technology

01/23/2018  Micron Technology, Inc. today launched the Micron 5200 series of SATA solid state drives.

Korea is at full throttle on memory investments

01/17/2018  2017 proved to be record-setting year for the semiconductor industry. According to World Semiconductor Trade Statistics (WSTS), worldwide semiconductor market will have grown 20 percent, exceeding $400 billion for the first time.

Everspin begins 40nm STT-MRAM volume production

01/17/2018  Everspin Technologies, Inc., a developer and manufacturer of discrete and embedded MRAM, today announced the Company recorded revenue for its first 40nm 256Mb STT-MRAM products in the fourth quarter of 2017 and is in the process of ramping its volume production in 2018

Worldwide PC shipments declined 2% in 4Q17 and 2.8% for the year

01/12/2018  Amid market consolidation, the top four PC vendors accounted for 64% of shipments in 2017.

Talent pipeline key to enabling industry growth: Takeaways from SEMI Member Forum

01/10/2018  These were key highlights from a SEMI Member Forum in December that brought together industry representatives and students in Dresden to weigh in on job-skills challenges facing the electronics manufacturers and solutions for the industry to consider.

SEMI European 3D Summit makes Dresden debut

12/22/2017  The SEMI European 3D Summit will make its Dresden, Germany, debut 22-24 January, 2018, featuring a broader scope of 3D topics driving innovation and business opportunities in the 3D market.

EPC introduces 40V gallium nitride power transistor eight times smaller than equivalently rated MOSFETs

12/19/2017  EPC2049 GaN power transistor offers power systems designers a 40 V, 5 m? power transistor about 8 times smaller than equivalently rated silicon MOSFETs for point of load converters, LiDAR, and low inductance motor drive.

Invensas completes DBI technology transfer to Teledyne DALSA

12/15/2017  One of the world's largest independent MEMS foundries ready to manufacture MEMS and image sensor products utilizing Invensas wafer bonding and 3D interconnect technology.

IXYS announces 200V power MOSFETs with fast body diodes and lowest on-resistances

12/14/2017  Fabricated using a charge compensation principle and IXYS' own process technology, these new MOSFETs exhibit the lowest on-state resistances in the industry.

aveni extends copper interconnects to 5nm and below for BEOL integration

12/12/2017  aveni S.A., developer and manufacturer of market-disrupting wet deposition technologies and chemistries for 2D interconnects and 3D through silicon via packaging, today announced it has obtained results that strongly support the continued use of copper in the back end of line (BEOL) for advanced interconnects, at and beyond the 5nm technology node.

Leti memory breakthrough point way to significant improvements in SoC memories

12/08/2017  Leti, a research institute of CEA Tech, demonstrated significant improvements in the field of memory systems at IEDM 2017 this week.

3D acoustic images expand their usefulness

12/07/2017  3D acoustic imaging is useful for measuring the heights of bumps on BGAs, flip chips, and other devices. But it can also be used to image and quantify depth/height variation of features within a particular sample.

Solutions for controlling resin bleed out

12/05/2017  The hows and whys of resin bleed-out (RBO) are discussed, as well as the impact it makes and how to control it.

Reveal previously invisible defects and contaminants in advanced packaging applications

12/05/2017  A new illumination technology compares favorably to conventional bright field illumination.

Google’s head of Quantum AI Lab to keynote at The ConFab 2018

12/01/2017  The ConFab 2018, to be held at The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas on May 21-23, is thrilled to announce the newest opening day Keynote speaker, Professor John M. Martinis.

Soitec announces substrate breakthrough for 3D image sensing devices

11/30/2017  Soitec, a designer and manufacturer of semiconductor materials for the electronics industry, today announced the latest generation of silicon-on-insulator (SOI) substrates in its Imager-SOI product line designed specifically for fabricating front-side imagers for near-infrared (NIR) applications including advanced 3D image sensors.

Semiconducting carbon nanotubes can reduce noise in carbon nanotube interconnects

11/17/2017  Crosstalk and noise can become a major source of reliability problems of CNT based VLSI interconnects in the near future.

Automotive electronic systems growth strongest through 2021

11/09/2017  IC Market Drivers 2018 report ranks major end-use applications and their impact on IC market growth.

DARPA's new initiative

11/08/2017  Earlier this year, DARPA's Microsystems Technology Office (MTO) announced a new Electronics Resurgence Initiative (ERI) "to open pathways for far-reaching improvements in electronics performance well beyond the limits of traditional scaling."

The intelligence that leads to artificial intelligence

11/08/2017  Artificial intelligence (AI) may be a hot topic today, but SEMI has helped to incubate Big Data and AI since its founding.




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The semiconductor industry is an acknowledged global leader in promoting environmental sustainability in the design, manufacture, and use of its products, as well as the health and safety of its operations and impacts on workers in semiconductor facilities (fabs). We will examine trends and concerns related to emissions, chemical use, energy consumption and worker safety and health.

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As the industry moves to 10nm and 7nm nodes, advances in wafer processing – etch, deposition, planarization, implant, cleaning, annealing, epitaxy among others – will be required. Manufacturers are looking for new solutions for sustained strain engineering, FinFETs, FDSOI and multi-gate technologies, 3D NAND, and high mobility transistors.

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