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From Orchards to Chips – Celebrating the Birth of Silicon Valley
Adapted from the Computer History Museum’s “Celebrating the Birthplace of Silicon Valley” invitation. Work that sowed the seeds of the digital, hyper-connected world we know today all started in a...
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SEMI High-Tech Facility Events – Shaping the Future of Smart Factories in Taiwan
The march to greater precision, efficiency and safety – the lifeblood of high-technology manufacturing facilities – has taken on a new urgency as emerging applications such artificial intelligence...
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Making Wearables Always Wearable With MEMS Sensor Technology
Ahead of his presentation on the future of wearables at the European MEMS & Sensors Summit 2018, 19-21 September in Grenoble, France, SEMI spoke with Dr. Peter Weigand, vice president, Business...
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ST, Intento: EDA for Faster Analog Design in FD-SOI
Intento Design is working with STMicroelectronics to bring ID-XploreTM EDA software, which is aimed at solving the critical analog design challenges, to FD-SOI process nodes.
“ID-Xplore is a...
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SEMI Testifies Against U.S. Tariffs, Members Meet with Congressional Leaders Urging Trade Action
Two months after opposing $34 billion in U.S. trade tariffs on behalf of the U.S. semiconductor manufacturing industry, Jonathan Davis, global vice president of industry advocacy at SEMI, this week...
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TowerJazz Ramps 300mm 65nm RF-SOI, extends long-term partnership with Soitec
Specialty foundry TowerJazz is ramping a 65nm version of its RF-SOI process on 300mm wafers at Fab 7 in Uozu, Japan. To support the ramp, the company has signed a contract with long-term partner,...
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SEMICON Southeast Asia 2018: Penang – The Silicon Island of Asia
Dato’ Seri Lee Kah Choon, Director of investPenang, discusses Malaysia’s emergence in the industry, along with statistics about Penang, infrastructure, logics, economic structure of Penang, and...
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SEMICON Southeast Asia 2018: Novel Ways of Using Data (Text and Images) from Intel’s Assembly and Test Factory (ATM)
Duncan Lee, Principal Engineer of Manufacturing IT, Factory Automation at Intel, discusses factory automation, process/equipment source of defect identification, and leveraging data. Data Fuels...
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SEMICON Southeast Asia 2018: SEMI Market Outlook May 2018 – Fab Investments, Equipment and Materials Forecasts
Clark Tseng, Senior Manager, Market Analysis at SEMI, gives an outlook on the semiconductor industry, forecast, and year-to-date trends. Cycles and growth drivers are included, along with the...
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SEMICON Southeast Asia 2018: Gas and Humidity Sensors Today and the Challenges of Accurately Testing in High Parallelism
Nigel Beddoe of Xcerra Corporation discusses types of gas sensors such as mobile, wearables, industrial, home automation, environmental, and automotive, and their potential uses. Challenges include...
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SEMICON Southeast Asia 2018: Dynamic Characterization of MEMS Devices Using Advanced Optical Measurement Techniques
Heinrich Steger, Markus Heilig, Eric Lawrence and David Oliver of Polytec Inc. discuss testing MEMS Dynamics and the Challenges and Requirements therein, including types of tests and properties...
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200mm Fabs Add 600,000 Wafers Per Month – Is There an End in Sight?
Tracking toward even stronger growth than forecast last year, 200mm fabs worldwide are gearing up to add more than 600,000 wafers per month from 2017 through 2022, an 11 percent growth rate that will...