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6 key takeaways from ISS Europe 2018

04/11/2018  With its leading research and development hubs, materials and equipment companies and chipmakers, the EU is in a strategic position in the global electronics value chain to support the growth of emerging applications such as autonomous driving, internet of things, artificial intelligence and deep learning.

Global IoT market to register revenue CAGR of 21.6% over next 10 years

04/09/2018  The first five-year cumulative revenue (2017-2021) is projected to be US$ 7,760.8 billion, which is expected to increase rather significantly over the latter part of the five-year forecast period.

The 2018 Symposia on VLSI Technology & Circuits covers converging trends in machine learning, artificial intelligence & the IoT

04/09/2018  The 2018 Symposia on VLSI Technology & Circuits will deliver a unique perspective into the technological ecosystem of converging industry trends – machine learning, IoT, artificial intelligence, wearable/implantable biomedical applications, big data, and cloud computing – the emerging technologies needed for 'smart living.'

POET Technologies and SilTerra announce partnership to develop and manufacture POET's Optical Interposer Platform

04/09/2018  The partnership is expected to accelerate the path to commercial production of the Optical Interposer, which will enable optical engines for single-mode transceiver modules and other high bandwidth devices

Fraunhofer ISE and EV group achieve 33.3% efficiency with silicon-based multi-junction solar cell

04/04/2018  The Fraunhofer researchers achieved the high conversion efficiency of the silicon-based multi-junction solar cell with extremely thin 0.002 mm semiconductor layers of III-V compound semiconductors, bonding them to a silicon solar cell.

Cat-like 'hearing' with device tens of trillions times smaller than human eardrum

04/02/2018  Developing atomically thin 'drumheads' for ultra-low power communications and sensory devices.

Engineers turn plastic insulator into heat conductor

04/02/2018  Technique could prevent overheating of laptops, mobile phones, and other electronics.

More than Moore’s overall wafer demand is driven by the megatrends

03/29/2018  The wafer demand is expected to reach more than 66 million 8-inch eq. wafers by 2023, with an almost 10% CAGR between 2017 and 2023.

NUS scientists develop novel chip for fast and accurate disease detection at low cost

03/29/2018  Innovative microfluidic chip uses only standard lab microscope to spot nano-biomolecules without any fluorescent labels.

Synopsys acquires Silicon and Beyond Private Limited

03/22/2018  Synopsys, Inc. today announced it has acquired Silicon and Beyond Private Limited, a provider of high-speed SerDes technology used in data intensive applications such as machine learning, cloud computing, and networking.

Golden touch: Next-gen optical disk to solve data storage challenge

03/22/2018  New technology offer cost-efficient and sustainable solution to global data storage challenge, while enabling the pivot from Big Data to Long Data and opening new realms of scientific discovery.

High-performance, cost-effective, thin-film solar cell technology provides an attractive source of portable and mobile power

03/22/2018  Magnolia Optical Technology, Inc. announced that it is working with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) under the Phase II SBIR Program for Development of High-Performance Thin-Film Solar Cells for Portable Power Applications.

U.S. trade tensions with China hit fever pitch

03/21/2018  Stiff tariffs and the dismantling of longstanding trade agreements – cornerstones of these new actions – will ripple through the semiconductor industry with particularly damaging effect.

SEMICON West 2018 to spotlight smart technologies, workforce development

03/20/2018  SEMICON West has opened registration for the July 10-12, 2018, exposition at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, California.

CEA shows path to creating building blocks of quantum processors

03/20/2018  CEA-Leti, a French technology research institute of the CEA and Inac, a joint fundamental research institute between the CEA and the University Grenoble Alpes, today announced a breakthrough towards large-scale fabrication of quantum bits, or qubits, the elementary bricks of future quantum processors.

The ConFab 2018 announces conference agenda and speakers

03/16/2018  Browse this slideshow for a look at this year's speakers, keynotes, panel discussions, and special guests.

Imec honors Qualcomm founder Irwin M. Jacobs with Lifetime of Innovation Award

03/14/2018  Imec, a research and innovation hub in nanoelectronics and digital technologies, today presented its annual Lifetime of Innovation Award to Dr. Irwin Jacobs, Founding Chairman and CEO Emeritus of Qualcomm.

Micron appoints Raj Talluri as senior vice president and general manager of Mobile Business Unit

03/13/2018  Micron Technology Inc. announced today that the company has appointed Raj Talluri as senior vice president and general manager of the Mobile Business Unit.

Breakthrough in circuit design makes electronics more resistant to damage and defects

03/12/2018  A newly published paper in Nature Electronics details how researchers at the Advanced Science Research Center, GC/CUNY, used an array of nonlinear resonators to overcome signal disruption when electronic circuits are broken or damaged.

Scientists develop new tool for imprinting biochips

03/09/2018  The new technology could allow researchers to fit more biochemical probes onto a single biochip and reduce the cost of screening and analyzing changes associated with disease development, detecting bioterrorism agents, and other areas of research.




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Environment, Safety & Health

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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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Wafer Processing

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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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