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New infrastructure and sensors extract actionable information from mature IoT

07/02/2018  For medtech applications to flourish, sensors need a supporting infrastructure that translates the data they harvest into actionable insights, says Qualcomm Life director of business development Gene Dantsker, who will speak about the future of digital healthcare in the Medtech program at SEMICON West.

SEMICON West: Exponential growth in data volumes drives change in system architecture

06/28/2018  With artificial intelligence (AI) rapidly evolving, look for applications like voice recognition and image recognition to get more efficient, more affordable, and far more common in a variety of products over the next few years.

Optimum Semiconductor unveils new image recognition SoC

06/26/2018  Optimum Semiconductor Technologies, Inc., a fabless semiconductor company providing highly-integrated Systems on Chips (SoCs) for China's thriving electronics markets, announced the GP8300 SoC.

Closing the gap: On the road to terahertz electronics

06/26/2018  Asymmetric plasmonic antennas deliver femtosecond pulses for fast optoelectronics.

Leti demonstrates new waveform for 5G low-power wide-area Internet of Things networks

06/25/2018  Leti, a research institute of CEA Tech, today announced that field trials of its new Low Power Wide Area (LPWA) technology, a waveform tailored for Internet of Things (IoT) applications, showed significant performance gains in coverage, data-rate flexibility and power consumption compared to leading LPWA technologies.

9 of the Top 12 smartphone suppliers headquartered in China?

06/22/2018  China accounted for 7 of top 10 leading smartphone suppliers in 2017, share grows to 42%.

U-M researchers create world's smallest 'computer'

06/21/2018  IBM's announcement that they had produced the world's smallest computer back in March raised a few eyebrows at the University of Michigan, home of the previous champion of tiny computing.

Scientists print sensors on gummi candy

06/21/2018  Printing microelectrode arrays on gelatin and other soft materials could pave the way for new medical diagnostics tools.

Executive keynotes to identify MEMS, sensors, imaging innovations and megatrends at SEMI-MSIG European Summits

06/19/2018  Industry leaders to share latest developments in smart automotive, smart cities, smart industrial, biomedical, consumer and IoT, September 19-21, 2018, in Grenoble, France.

SEMI-FlexTech invites proposals for flexible hybrid electronics advances

06/19/2018  FlexTech, a SEMI Strategic Association Partner, is now soliciting proposals for projects that advance flexible hybrid electronics (FHE) for sensors, power and other key electronic components.

Wireless technologies to comprise 55% of connectivity IC shipments in 2018

06/14/2018  Driven by the colossal Internet of Things (IoT) opportunity, wireless technologies—including wireless local area network (WLAN), Bluetooth, cellular and low-power wireless—will account for 55 percent of connectivity integrated circuit (IC) shipments in 2018, according to a new report from business information provider IHS Markit

Industrial internet and connected vehicles drive IoT sales through 2021?

06/14/2018  IC Market Drivers 2018 Update maintains solid revenue growth across all IoT end-use systems.

MEMS pressure sensor technologies: Multiple ways to success

06/11/2018  The MEMS pressure sensor market is still driven by automotive applications. Established automotive applications increase MEMS pressure sensors adoption in the integrating systems, and also widespread their geographical adoption especially in China thanks to new automotive regulation.

The MEMS market is showing a 17.5% CAGR between 2018 and 2023

06/11/2018  MEMS market will experience a 17.5% growth in value between 2018 and 2023, to reach US$ 31 billion at the end of the period.

A nanotech sensor that turns molecular fingerprints into bar codes

06/08/2018  Scientists at EPFL's School of Engineering and at Australian National University (ANU) have developed a compact and sensitive nanophotonic system that can identify a molecule's absorption characteristics without using conventional spectrometry.

imec demonstrates compact low-power 140GHz CMOS radar with on-chip antennas

06/07/2018  The achievement is an important step in the development of radar-based sensors for a myriad of smart intuitive applications, such as building security, remote health monitoring of car drivers, breathing and heart rate of patients, and gesture recognition for man-machine interaction.

NVIDIA, Taiwan's MOST unveil collaboration to supercharge AI efforts

06/04/2018  NVIDIA and Taiwan's Ministry of Science and Technology today announced an extensive collaboration that will advance Taiwan's artificial intelligence capabilities.

Flexible organic electronics mimic biological mechanosensory nerves

06/01/2018  Artificial nerves can be used for neurorobotics and neuroprosthetics.

Lung-on-a-chip simulates pulmonary fibrosis

05/30/2018  New biotech could reduce time and cost of developing medicine for deadly lung disease.

Leti Innovation Days to explore presentations on how microelectronics is fueling innovation

05/29/2018  Leti, a technology research institute of CEA Tech, today announced its annual flagship event, Leti Innovation Days, July 4-5 in Grenoble.




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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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