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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...
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IBM, Nissan and Toshiba Talk Computing and Smart Car Innovations: Key Takeaways from SEMI Japan Members Day
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....
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GF's FD-SOI Has Delivered >$2 Billion in Design Win Revenues, 50+ Clients
GlobalFoundries has announced that the company’s 22nm FD-SOI (22FDX®) technology has delivered more than two billion dollars of client design win revenue. With more than 50 client designs, 22FDX is...
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SEMI China Equipment & Materials Committee Meeting Targets Region's Semiconductor Industry Growth
Storage and memory chipmaker and SEMI China member Tsinghua Unigroup is gearing up to meet burgeoning product demand with huge investments in its manufacturing plants. But the high-tech enterprise...
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2018 and 2019 Global Electronic Supply Chain Forecasts, Plus a Leading Indicator Worth Watching
Forecast SummariesCharts 1 and 2 are the recent world growth forecasts for this year and next for GDP (World Bank), Electronic Equipment and Printed Wiring Boards (Custer Consulting Group),...