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Building U.S. manufacturing ecosystems for emerging advanced packaging technologies

06/22/2016  Emerging opportunities for advanced packaging solutions for heterogeneous integration include a lot more than logic, memory and sensors.

SEMI and Solid State Technology announce the 2016 "Best of West" award finalists

06/21/2016  Each year at SEMICON West, the "Best of West" awards are presented by Solid State Technology and SEMI.

Advanced Packaging Forum provides answers at SEMICON West 2016

06/14/2016  Today, SEMI announced that the latest packaging solutions will be the topic of an in-depth session at the SEMICON West 2016 Advanced Packaging Forum - and on display on the exhibition floor.

Changing markets drive smarter manufacturing by IC sector

06/13/2016  The changing market for ICs means the end of business as usual for the greater semiconductor supply chain. Smarter use of data analytics looks like a key strategy to get new products more quickly into high yield production at improved margins.

Countdown to Node 5: Moving beyond FinFETs

06/10/2016  A forum of industry experts at SEMICON West 2016 will discuss the challenges associated with getting from node 10 -- which seems set for HVM -- to nodes 7 and 5.

SEMICON West 2016 expands technical programming by nearly 50%

05/26/2016  As the opening day of SEMICON West (July 12-14) approaches, the electronics manufacturing industry is experiencing disruptive changes, making “business as usual” a thing of the past. To help technical and business professionals navigate this fast-changing landscape, SEMICON West programming has been upgraded extensively.

Seven Top-20 semiconductor suppliers show double-digit declines

05/12/2016  Qualcomm, Micron, and SK Hynix registered ?25% drops, with total top-20 sales off by 6%.

Market for analog ICs/MEMS/sensors and supply chain opportunities

04/29/2016  The demand for smartphones and other portable devices that need efficient power management is driving the analog IC market, as is the Internet of Things (IoT) and the MEMS/sensors devices that enable it.

Extended supply chain presents exhibitors with new opportunities at SEMICON West

04/18/2016  Leading innovators in today's integrated electronics supply chain are preparing to showcase their products and services at SEMICON West 2016 on July 12-14 in San Francisco, Calif.

SEMICON West 2016: New high-speed EtherCAT mass flow controllers from Brooks Instrument

04/14/2016  Celebrating its 70th anniversary, Brooks Instrument will be exhibiting at SEMICON West 2016 with new mass flow controllers (MFC) equipped with the high-speed EtherCAT interface, along with a broad range of other mass flow meters, controllers, vaporizers and capacitance manometers for semiconductor manufacturing.

SEMI announces FlexTech Alliance as first Strategic Association Partner

10/07/2015  SEMI announced today that FlexTech Alliance has become the first SEMI Strategic (Association) Partner.

Challenges for MEMS, sensors, and semiconductors

08/11/2015  Leading industry experts participated in the joint SEMI-MEMS Industry Group (MIG) workshop during SEMICON West 2015 to discuss industry challenges – and potential solutions and collaborative approaches – in the MEMS, sensors and semiconductor industries.

SEMICON West: The road forward is 3DIC

07/31/2015  SEMICON West 2015 had a strong and rich undercurrent – the roadmap forward is most certainly 3DIC.

CH2M Hill: How being green benefits the bottom line

07/16/2015  CH2M has seen many changes and trends in the semiconductor industry since the company was involved designing many of the industry’s first wafer fabs back in the 1980s.

Business is good for vendors of test and inspection/metrology equipment

07/16/2015  Semiconductor test equipment and inspection/metrology equipment are unglamorous yet critical segments of the equipment field.

Inspection smooths a bumpy road

07/16/2015  Wafer bumping has several advantages over traditional wire bonding. Bumps can be placed almost anywhere on the die, where wire bonding is limited to the periphery of the devices. And bumps give you the ability to put many more I/O points on an individual die.

EUV: Unlike anything else in the fab

07/16/2015  Imagine EUV lithography in high volume production. ASML has been working for years to make it happen.

SEMICON West Day 3: Don't Miss

07/15/2015  Check out these events on Day 3 of SEMICON West 2015.

ClassOne Technology’s Solstice S4 wins Best of West

07/15/2015  The ClassOne Technology Solstice S4 won the Best of West award, presented by Solid State Technology and SEMI.

SEMI Standards leaders honored at SEMICON West 2015

07/15/2015  SEMI honored six industry leaders for their outstanding accomplishments in developing Standards for the microelectronics and related industries.




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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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