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Cybersecurity Critical to Success of MEMS and Sensors Suppliers
Cynthia Wright, a retired military officer with over 25 years of experience in national security and cyber strategy and policy, now Principal Cyber Security Engineer at The MITRE Corporation, will...
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Industry Growth and Geographic Shifts
Electronic EquipmentGlobal electronic equipment production is in its traditional “fall busy season” as the consumer driven end markets ramp up for the holiday season (Chart 1). Both normal...
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MEMS – One Product, One Process?
SEMI spoke with Udo Gómez, senior vice president at Robert Bosch GmbH, about MEMS technology requirements relative to standard IC design and manufacturing. Gómez highlighted solutions to challenges...
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Part 2 of 2: The End of the Memory Growth Rally? Where Are We in the Memory Inventory Cycle?
Part 1 of this article discussed the Memory Inventory Cycle Index and compared it with memory device sales and memory fab equipment investments. This article, the second of the two-part series,...
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Automating 200mm Semiconductor Fabs to Meet Growing Demand
SEMI met with Heinz Martin Esser, managing director at Fabmatics GmbH, to discuss how existing 200mm semiconductor fabs can master the challenges of a 24x7 production under highest cost and quality...
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The Gigafab Minute and SEMI Standards: A Modern Miracle
Even for someone who has been in this industry since the days of the TI Datamath 4-function calculator and the TMS1100 4-bit microcontroller (yes, that’s been a LONG time – the...
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Wafer-Level Chip Scale Packages: Reliability and Validation Testing Using Simulation Methodology
SEMI spoke with Balaji Nandhivaram Muthuraman, Package and Material Simulation engineer at Dialog Semiconductor, about the state of reliability testing for wafer-level chip scale packages ahead of...
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Part 1 of 2: The End of the Memory Growth Rally? Where Are We in the Memory Inventory Cycle?
Micron, one of the top three memory semiconductor companies, reported solid results for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2018 (June to August) to extend a multi-quarter string of strong growth. However,...
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Japan – A Thriving, Highly Versatile Chip Manufacturing Region
On June 1st, 2018, Toshiba sold Toshiba Memory, Toshiba’s memory business, to an investment group led by Bain Capital. Toshiba Memory was then owned by a consortium of American, Japanese and Korean...
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3D Heterogeneous Integration Drives Demand for New Materials and Integration Solutions
SEMI met with Gerald Beyer, program manager at imec, to discuss the co-existence of various 3D interconnect technologies and their need for new materials and integration solutions. The two...
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SEMI Calls for Exclusion Process for Products in New China Tariff List
Last week, SEMI joined a coalition of business groups in calling for Ambassador Robert Lighthizer, U.S. Trade Representative, to enact an exclusion process for the most recent tranche of tariffs...
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Power Subsystems: Surging on a Wave of Vacuum Processing Equipment
Process power and reactive gas subsystems for semiconductor manufacturing equipment have grown at a CAGR of 21% since 2013. The segment growth is considerably above the critical subsystems industry...