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SEMI integration of ESD Alliance underway

08/14/2018  SEMI today announced that all legal requirements have been met for the ESD (Electronic Systems Design) Alliance to become a SEMI Strategic Association Partner.

European electronics industry CEOs call on European Commission to bolster sector's competitiveness

08/08/2018  In a bid to reinvigorate Europe’s electronics strategy and strengthen the region’s position in key emerging technologies, European electronics industry CEOs in June called on public and private actors to accelerate collaboration at the European Union and national levels.

Average design cost for basic SoCs across all geometries was $1.7M in 2017, says Semico Research

08/07/2018  The semiconductor industry today is faced with several substantial issues-not the least of which are the continuing rise in design costs for complex SoCs, the decrease in the incidence of first-time-right designs and the increase in the design cycle time against shrinking market windows and decreasing product life cycles.

Keysight delivers the industry's smallest solder-in probe head for high performance oscilloscopes

08/01/2018  Keysight MX0100A InfiniiMax micro probe head designed to access small geometry, high density target devices.

Memory-processing unit could bring memristors to the masses

07/30/2018  A new way of arranging advanced computer components called memristors on a chip could enable them to be used for general computing, which could cut energy consumption by a factor of 100.

NIST chip lights up optical neural network demo

07/27/2018  Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have made a silicon chip that distributes optical signals precisely across a miniature brain-like grid, showcasing a potential new design for neural networks.

Park Systems announces Park Nanoscience Lab at Indian Institute of Science in India

07/23/2018  Park Systems announced the opening of the Park Nanoscience Lab at the prestigious Indian Institute of Science (IISC) Bangalore India, which has been upgraded to the status of Institute of Eminence.

Future electronic components to be printed like newspapers

07/20/2018  A new manufacturing technique uses a process similar to newspaper printing to form smoother and more flexible metals for making ultrafast electronic devices.

IBM, Nissan and Toshiba talk computing and smart car innovations: Key takeaways from SEMI Japan Members Day

07/20/2018  The Japan semiconductor manufacturing supply chain is a global semiconductor industry workhorse, producing about one third of world's chip equipment and more than half of its semiconductor materials.

Silicon Labs expands senior management team

07/16/2018  Daniel Cooley has been named Senior Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer.

Nano-kirigami: 'Paper-cut' provides model for 3D intelligent nanofabrication

07/13/2018  Dr. LI Jiafang, from the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, has recently formed an international team to apply kirigami techniques to advanced 3D nanofabrication.

Broadcom to acquire CA Technologies for $18.9B in cash

07/13/2018  Broadcom Inc. and CA Technologies today announced that the companies have entered into a definitive agreement under which Broadcom has agreed to acquire CA to build one of the world's leading infrastructure technology companies.

The outlook for new metrology approaches

07/10/2018  To keep up with Moore's Law, the semiconductor industry continues to push the envelope in developing new device architectures containing novel materials.

The cobbler's children getting shoes?

07/10/2018  There's an old proverb that the shoemaker's children always go barefoot, indicating how some professionals don't apply their skills for themselves. Until lately, that has seemed the case with the semiconductor manufacturing industry which has been good at collecting massive amounts of data, but no so good at analyzing that data and using it to improve efficiency, boost yield and reduce costs.

Proving the benefits of data analysis

07/10/2018  The semiconductor industry is collecting massive amounts of data from fab equipment and other sources. But is the trend toward using that data in a Smart Manufacturing or Industry 4.0 approach happening fast enough in what Mike Plisinski, CEO of Rudolph Technologies, calls a "very conservative" chip manufacturing sector?

Generating electrical power from waste heat

07/09/2018  New Sandia solid-state silicon device may one day power space missions.

SEMICON West 2018 highlights smart technologies, workforce development, industry growth

07/09/2018  Smart technologies take center stage tomorrow as SEMICON West, the flagship U.S. event for connecting the electronics manufacturing supply chain, opens for three days of insights into leading technologies and applications that will power future industry expansion.

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.

Closing the gap: On the road to terahertz electronics

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

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.




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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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