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TSMC's UBM-free fan-in WLCSP

09/21/2016  At the 2016 ECTC Conference, TSMC discussed their UFI (UBM-Free Integration) Fan-In WLCSP technology which they claim enables large die fine pitch packages.

A changing industry

09/21/2016  The semiconductor industry is changing in some big ways. Demand for PCs and mobile devices – once the main drivers of growth – has slowed.

Solid State Technology announces expanded conference for The ConFab 2017

09/21/2016  The conference and networking event, will be held at the iconic Hotel del Coronado in San Diego on May 14-17, 2017.

Toshiba expands 24nm SLC NAND flash lineup to address industrial applications

09/20/2016  Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc. has expanded its family of 24nm single-level cell (SLC) NAND flash memory solutions.

?200mm semiconductor manufacturing is here to stay

09/20/2016  Ted Shafer of ASML reports on the highlights from the ?200mm manufacturing session during SEMICON West, organized by the SEMI Secondary Equipment and Applications Special Interest Group.

Applied Materials and A*STAR's Institute of Microelectronics to advance R&D in FOWLP

09/19/2016  The organizations will expand the scope of their R&D collaboration to focus on advancing Fan-Out Wafer-Level Packaging (FOWLP), a key technology inflection expected to help make chips and end-user devices smaller, faster and more power efficient.

Moore's Law did indeed stop at 28nm

09/19/2016  As we have predicted two and a half years back, the industry is bifurcating, and just a few products pursue scaling to 7nm while the majority of designs stay on 28nm or older nodes.

Nordson expands manufacturing center in northeast Ohio

09/16/2016  Nordson Corporation today announced it plans to combine its existing screw and barrel operations in Youngstown, Ohio; New Castle, Pennsylvania; and Pulaski, Virginia into a single expanded manufacturing center of excellence in Austintown, Ohio.

GLOBALFOUNDRIES to deliver industry's leading-performance offering of 7nm FinFET technology

09/15/2016  This technology provides more processing power for data centers, networking, premium mobile processors, and deep learning applications.

GLOBALFOUNDRIES launches embedded MRAM on 22FDX platform

09/15/2016  High-performance embedded non-volatile memory solution is ideally suited for emerging applications in advanced IoT and automotive.

The future of Europe pitch their startups at SEMICON Europa's Innovation Village

09/14/2016  SEMI today announced that twenty-one start-ups have been selected to pitch to investors and exhibit their products at SEMICON Europa's INNOVATION VILLAGE in Grenoble, France at the Alpexpo from 25-27 October, 2016.

Asia-Pacific to top 2016 regional IC sales in major system categories

09/14/2016  Government/Military only end-use segment where Asia-Pacific does not have top IC marketshare.

SEMI’s new interactive mobile fab forecast: SEMI FabView

09/13/2016  SEMI, a supplier of independent semiconductor market research, today announced SEMI FabView, a mobile-friendly, interactive version of its popular World Fab Forecast quarterly report for electronic supply chain players and analysts.

GLOBALFOUNDRIES extends FDX roadmap with 12nm FD-SOI technology

09/08/2016  GLOBALFOUNDRIES today unveiled a new 12nm FD-SOI semiconductor technology, extending its leadership position by offering the industry's first multi-node FD-SOI roadmap.

GLOBALFOUNDRIES unveils ecosystem partner program to accelerate innovation for tomorrow's connected systems

09/08/2016  GLOBALFOUNDRIES today announced a new partner program, called FDXcelerator, an ecosystem designed to facilitate 22FDX system-on-chip (SoC) design and reduce time-to-market for its customers.

Memory for future wearable electronics

09/02/2016  Stretchable, flexible, reliable memory device inspired by the brain.

Enabling industry collaboration to address critical ATE challenges

09/01/2016  For many years, the ATE industry has been challenged with controlling the cost of both production and development test by implementing innovative approaches and employing clever strategies (e.g., multi-site test implementation, DFT, etc.) to make “ends” meet, so to speak.

ASMC 2017 "Call for Papers" deadline is October 17

09/01/2016  SEMI announced today that the deadline for presenters to submit an abstract for the annual SEMI Advanced Semiconductor Manufacturing Conference (ASMC) is October 17.

Plastic crystals could improve fabrication of memory devices

08/31/2016  A novel 'plastic crystal' developed by Hokkaido University researchers has switching properties suitable for memory-related applications.

Continuous roll-process technology for transferring and packaging flexible LSI

08/29/2016  A research team led by Professor Keon Jae Lee from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) and by Dr. Jae-Hyun Kim from the Korea Institute of Machinery and Materials (KIMM) has jointly developed a continuous roll-processing technology that transfers and packages flexible large-scale integrated circuits.




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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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