Showing 2617-2628 of 2680
Blog
Silicon Valley FD-SOI 2018 Training Day is April 27th – Don't Miss It!
Following the immense success of last year's FD-SOI training day in Silicon Valley, the SOI Consortium has another one planned for the end of April this year. If you want to start learning how to...
Blog
The Challenge of Tight Silicon Wafer Supply: Impacts and Implications
Co-author: Sungho Yoon, Senior Market Research Analyst at SEMIChip makers continue to struggle to secure more silicon wafers to meet market demand as production capacity has reportedly fallen...
Blog
China Now World’s Largest Consumer of Packaging Equipment and Materials
Fueled by heavy government investment, IC packaging and testing in China generated $29 billion in revenue in 2017, making China the world’s largest consumer of packaging equipment and materials,...
Blog
AI and MEMS Sensors: A Critical Pairing
Artificial intelligence (AI) is making headlines everywhere, offering a range of capabilities, including location and motion awareness — determining whether a user is sitting, walking, running or...
Event Presentation
VLSI Research: Critical Subsystems Service and Support
John West, Managing Director at VLSI Research, projects the annual revenues for service and support of critical subsystems out to 2022, citing many figures and percentages to support. A breakdown by...
Blog
Being "Idle" to Make Money - How Powering Down Pays Off
Large semiconductor fabs can devour electricity at clip of 100 megawatts per hour -- enough to power 50,000 homes1 and, according to a McKinsey study, more than automobile plants and oil...
Blog
SEMI Honors RF-SOI Innovators Raskin & Aspar
RF-SOI innovators Jean-Pierre Raskin of UCL and Bernard Aspar of Soitec changed the course for key RF chips. The industry has long recognized their contributions: their solution for “trap-rich”...
Blog
Does China Mobile Care About RF-SOI for 5G? Oh Yes.
China Mobile is the world's largest* telco. So when Danni Song, one of the company's high-level project managers presented at the SOI Consortium's 5th International RF-SOI Workshop in Shanghai, you...
Blog
China/Taiwan Markets February Chill
After a record January, Taiwan-listed electronics companies, many of which manufacture in China, reported significant drops in February sales. A number of events likely contributed: Far fewer working...
Blog
U.S. Trade Tensions with China Hit Fever Pitch
Following through on his 2016 campaign promise, President Trump is implementing trade policies that buck conventional wisdom in Washington, D.C. and among U.S. businesses. Stiff tariffs and the...
Blog
Automotive Chip Manufacturing in Japan Drives Innovation
In Tokyo, Shanghai, Moscow, London, Paris or New York – wherever you are in the world –Japanese vehicles passing by on the roadways are a common sight. Three big reasons are their high quality,...
Event Presentation
SEMICON Europa 2017 Collection
This collection contains presentations by Dirk Drescher, GM at XFAB, Florian Hilpert, Group Leader of Aviation Electronics at Fraunhofer, Florin Udrea, Ph.D., Professor of Semiconductor Engineering...