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More than EDA - Cadence Talks About Designing With FD-SOI
EDA companies Cadence, Synopsys and Silvaco all gave excellent presentations at the SOI Consortium forums in Nanjing and Shanghai.Here's a recap of what the Cadence folks said. (I'll cover the...
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Securing Talent to Connect, Collaborate and Innovate
In my first six months at SEMI, I’ve visited with many member companies and industry leaders. One theme I hear repeatedly is a concern about our most fundamental source of innovation and productivity...
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China's Semiconductor Industry and Win-Win Growth
As China embarks on the Made in China 2025 plan with electronics and semiconductor technology as one of the Top 10 focus areas, China's semiconductor industry has an unprecedented growth opportunity....
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MRSI Systems Launches High Speed Die Bonder for Photonics High Volume Manufacturing
North Billerica, MA, USA, August 14, 2017 — MRSI Systems, a leading manufacturer of fully automated, ultra-precision, high speed die bonding and epoxy dispensing systems, is launching a new High...
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How SEMI Supports the Efforts to Address Climate Change
Despite the unfortunate withdrawal of an individual government from the voluntary international accord on climate change, SEMI and our industry remains dedicated to sustainable manufacturing and...
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Industry Upswing: End of Cycles?
This is an exciting year to be in the semiconductor industry: semiconductor-related companies are trading at all-time highs and most expect record device shipments and revenues as well as equipment...
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200mm Fabs Still Flexing Muscles!
In the shadow of other more trendy news about China and Memory fab investments, 200mm fabs continue to “flex their muscles.” At least 500,000 wafers per month (wpm) capacity, or a 10 percent...
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$49.4 Billion Semiconductor Equipment Forecast ─ New Record, Korea at Top
SEMI reported that worldwide sales of new semiconductor manufacturing equipment are projected to increase 19.8 percent to total $49.4 billion in 2017, marking the first time that the semiconductor...
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200mm Fab Investment Finds Home in China
By Clark Tseng, Industry Research & Statistics Group, SEMI
China’s ambitious plans to build a world-class semiconductor manufacturing supply chain domestically certainly has the industry’s...
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Samsung Announces Next FD-SOI Node: 18nm
Big News: Samsung has officially revealed that their next FD-SOI node is 18nm. The announcement was made at the recent Samsung Foundry Forum, which showcased a number of new technologies that...
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Lithography Trends: Patterning Not Like It Used to Be
Prior to 1997, the industry enjoyed the “mask maker’s holiday” when IC feature sizes were larger than the lithography wavelength and the industry enjoyed the number of transistors per area doubling...
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NXP's new i.MX 7ULP On 28nm FD-SOI – Yes! Industry's Lowest Power General Purpose Applications Processor (part 1)
They're calling it, “The most advanced, lowest power-consuming GPU-enabled MPU on the market.” It's NXP's new i.MX 7ULP general-purpose processor, and it's on 28nm FD-SOI. They've got a nifty video...