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 Environment, Safety & Health Date and time TBD 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 Date and time TBD 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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Solid state drives (SSDs) are electrically, mechanically, and software compatible with their conventional electro-mechanical counterparts -- hard disk drives (HDD) -- but instead of using rotating magnetic media to retain data, SSDs use semiconductor memory, mainly NAND flash. Radovan Faltus, AVX, considers write speed improvements when cache memory is used (in particular synchronous dynamic RAM), focusing specifically on the problematic issue of cache memory power backup.
Imec researchers will present "Carbon nanotube interconnects: electrical characterization of 150nm CNT contacts with Cu damascene top contact" at IITC 2011. Dr. Marleen van der Veen, senior research scientist at imec discussed the research results and their significance.
University of Maryland researchers found the Kondo effect in graphene without magnetic additives. With "defect engineering" of graphene, nanoscale magnetic sensors, magnetic storage, and magnetic random access memory applications could be possible.
Slightly above average growth rates in 2011 will lift sales of optoelectronics, sensors and actuators, and discrete semiconductors to new record-high levels again this year, thanks to growth in MEMS and LED markets, says IC Insights.
Yole reports on the flip chip market, and finds that this $16 billion industry, with diverse applications, is still growing. New flip chip technologies, such as copper pillars, and technology demands, such as fragile 28nm chips, are driving demand.
Supply disruptions and potential shortages following the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Japan have uplifted semiconductor prices, especially in the memory sector. This means increased semiconductor revenues in 2011, says IHS iSuppli.
Sharon Holt, Rambus, makes the case for a kind of evolutionary revolution in memory -- one that essentially unifies the memory requirements of PCs/servers as well as smart phones/tablets. Holt says that continuing to increase the speeds of LPDDR while staying within power requirements can be a way to buy time before moving to wide I/O memory with TSV.