Chip Integration Technology Center (CITC) today announced the appointment of Toni Versluijs as the new chairman of its Supervisory Board. Versluijs will serve as the incoming chairman from September through December. Effective January 1, 2025, he will take over the responsibilities from chairman Roel Fonville who is retiring.

Versluijs has an extensive background of more than 25 years in the semiconductor industry, of which more than 15 years in general and executive management roles. Prior to this appointment, he worked for NXP, where he led the In-Vehicle Networking product line and was NXP Nijmegen site director and statutory director of NXP Netherlands. Most recently, he led the Business Group MOS at Nexperia, served as statutory director for Nexperia in the UK and was part of the company’s global executive leadership team.

He explains his choice for CITC: “I look forward to using my many years of experience in the semiconductor industry to contribute to the success of CITC in Nijmegen. Nijmegen is a location with a long heritage in semiconductor packages that have changed the world. CITC is a unique venture and has a unique position between private parties, the academic world and knowledge institutes.”

CITC is a smaller and different kind of organization than his previous employers, but Versluijs sees the potential: “CITC has attracted quite some talent in recent years, built partnerships and initiated new developments. In short: it has laid the foundation for growth, and it will flourish in the coming years. I am convinced that it has the potential to change the world of semiconductor packaging again.”

The current chairman of the CITC Supervisory Board, Roel Fonville, adds: “The Supervisory Board is very pleased to welcome Toni Versluijs to our midst. His personality and broad experience in the industry and in the Nijmegen region will help the Board to fulfill its role in securing the continued development of the organization.”

About CITC
Chip Integration Technology Center (CITC) is a non-profit, joint innovation center specializing in heterogeneous integration and advanced chip packaging technology. CITC has created an effective ecosystem in which companies, research and educational institutes work on bridging the gap between academics and industry. CITC's contribution to the ecosystem is to provide access to innovation, infrastructure, and education. CITC was founded in 2019 with strategic partners TNO and Delft University of Technology and is supported by local and regional governments.
www.citc.org

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Brewer Science Named 2024 National Top Workplace in Manufacturing Industry

Work-life balance and supportive managers among top culture drivers identified

Rolla, MO – July 15, 2024 – Brewer Science, Inc., a global leader in developing and manufacturing next-generation materials and processes for the microelectronics and optoelectronics industries, has been named a 2024 National Top Workplace in the Manufacturing Industry, marking the fourth consecutive year the company has received this recognition.

Brewer Science has been named 2024 Top Workplaces 2024 based upon employee feedback

This list is based solely on employee feedback gathered through a third-party survey administered by employee engagement technology partner Energage LLC, a research company with more than 18 years of experience surveying over 27 million employees at 70,000 organizations. Results are calculated by comparing the survey’s research-based statements, including 15 Culture Drivers proven to predict high performance against industry benchmarks.

In addition to being named a National Top Workplace in the Manufacturing Industry, Brewer Science received regional recognition as a 2024 Top Workplace in Greater St. Louis, marking the eighth consecutive year the company has received this recognition.

“Being recognized as a Top Workplace both on a national industry level, as well as locally within our community, speaks volumes to Brewer Science’s dedication in providing our employee-owners with the most fulfilling work experience,” states Dan Brewer, Executive Vice President, Corporate Resources Officer at Brewer Science.

Culture Badges demonstrate employee satisfaction

Brewer Science ranked in the top 25% in two culture drivers, thus earning separate Culture Badges for Work-Life Balance and Supportive Managers, described by Energage as the following:

Work-Life Balance: Employees have the flexibility they need to balance their work and personal life.

Earning the Work-Life Balance badge is best exemplified by some of Brewer Science’s policies and benefits, including:

- Community Service Leave
- Flexible Schedules
- Wellness Breaks
- Disconnect Days

Supportive Managers: Employees feel the managers at Brewer Science care about their concerns and help them learn, grow and succeed.

Earning the Supportive Managers badge is best exemplified by some of Brewer Science’s leader development programs, including:

- Emotional Intelligence Training
- On-Demand Coaching and Mentoring
- Leader Development Programs
- Educational Assistance

“Brewer Science is honored to receive the Top Workplace Award for the eighth consecutive year and to be recognized for supportive managers and work-life balance – drivers enabling our employee-owners to be fulfilled and engaged,” states Vicki Hallsworth, Director of International Human Resources at Brewer Science. “Valuing our employees’ well-being and workplace experience is key to our success, as their investment and satisfaction drives company and industry growth, exceptional service and innovative solutions our customers and communities trust and expect.”

Providing customized solutions to customers’ unique complex situations requires high regard for a sense of purpose and commitment by everyone within the company. This dedication has been instilled through the company values and creates a workplace flourishing with culture. The employees at Brewer Science are attentive to their roles in the company and the value they articulate to the customers, suppliers, and industry. This has been exemplified by the company becoming Certified Employee-Owned in 2020. Additionally, the company was recognized for meeting the highest corporate social and environmental standards, transparency, and accountability to all stakeholders by becoming a Certified B Corporation™ in 2021.

Learn more about Brewer Science’s company culture and explore career opportunities by visiting our website: https://www.brewerscience.com/about-us/company/careers/

About Brewer Science
Brewer Science is a global leader in developing and manufacturing next-generation materials and processes that foster the technology needed for tomorrow. Since 1981, we’ve expanded our technology portfolio within advanced lithography, advanced packaging, smart devices, and printed electronics to enable cutting-edge microdevices and unique quality monitoring systems for water and air applications. We are Certified Employee-Owned and a Certified B Corporation™, using our business as a force for good. Our headquarters are in Rolla, Missouri, with customer support throughout the world. Learn more at: www.brewerscience.com.

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Verific Design Automation today affirmed its position as the leading provider of front-end platforms powering an emerging electronic design automation (EDA) space by collaborating with a group of well-funded artificial intelligence (AI) EDA startups.

These new AI EDA companies use Verific’s unsurpassed language support for fast, accurate large language model (LLM) development, speeding time to market for products that range from functional verification, chip design to code development.

AI EDA providers PrimisAI and Silimate, founded by former chip designers, will be in the Verific booth (#1414) AI showcase at the 61st Design Automation Conference (DAC) June 24-26 at Moscone West in San Francisco.

“This new and exciting market segment is about to change the entire makeup of the EDA industry,” says Rick Carlson, vice president of Verific. “We are about to see a variety of tools, technologies and methodologies destined to change the way chip design and verification is done.”

Introducing the EDA Startups Ushering in the Era of AI EDA
PrimisAI and Silimate will be showcased in the Verific DAC booth and present their unique use of AI technology to eliminate error-prone repetitive tasks for efficient and more productive chip design.

PrimisAI offers a generative AI solution for chip design with advanced language-to-code and language-to-verification capabilities through its interactive AI assistant to address complex hardware challenges across the entire design stack from concept to bitstream/GDSII. RapidGPT, unveiled earlier this year, lets engineers interact with their design and the entire EDA ecosystem with a natural language interface, boosting productivity and accelerating time-to-market. Founded by serial entrepreneur Naveed Sherwani who serves as chairman and CEO, PrimisAI is backed by two early-stage investors.

“Verific’s front-end platform lived up to its well-earned status of industry standard as we implemented it in RapidGPT,” remarks Pierre-Emmanuel Gaillardon, CSO of PrimisAI. “The robustness and quality of the Verific front-end platform ensured we would deliver a tool that would give engineers a seamless and efficient workflow.”

Silimate, backed by Y Combinator, is building the co-pilot for chip designers to help build better chips faster. Silimate finds functional bugs, predicts power, performance and area (PPA) issues, and recommends real and accurate fixes in real time, and is already being used by chip teams building complex IP and SoCs. Co-founders Ann Wu and Akash Levy previously built chips and EDA tools at Apple, Stanford, NVIDIA, and Synopsys.

“Verific consistently produces quality products and offers exceptional quality support,” comments Wu. “Their parsers are fantastic and result in very quick tool bring-up times for our customers.”

Metalware co-founded by Ryan Chow and Andrew Nedea is another Verific front-end platform user. It was started with initial funding from Y Combinator with the mission to accelerate embedded development using AI technology after personally experiencing repeated bottlenecks in embedded software at SpaceX. The Metalware AI EDA tools help designers rapidly write HDL and embedded C/C++ by combining insights from manuals, datasheets and code, offering 10x faster development by automating low-level programming.

“Verific embodies our stated goals to reduce the time it takes to design chips and systems,” affirms Chow. “Verific and its team of experienced EDA engineers have shown repeatedly that its front-end platforms enable a project that would normally take days to be completed in hours.”

Another AI EDA startup in stealth mode is also a new Verific user. Details will be announced shortly.

DAC AI Showcase
Verific will demonstrate its SystemVerilog, Verilog, VHDL and UPF front-end platforms, while PrimisAI and Silimate will be in the Verific DAC Booth #1414 at various times of the day to give 10-minute presentations.

DAC will be held from Monday, June 24, through Wednesday, June 26, from 10 a.m. until 6 p.m. at Moscone West in San Francisco.

To arrange a demonstration or private meeting, send email to [email protected]

DAC registration is open.

About Verific Design Automation
Verific Design Automation is the leading provider of SystemVerilog, Verilog, VHDL and UPF Parser Platforms that enable project groups to develop advanced electronic design automation (EDA) products quickly and cost effective worldwide. With offices in Alameda, Calif., and Kolkata, India, Verific has shipped more than 60,000 copies of its software used worldwide by the EDA and semiconductor industry since it was founded in 1999.

Engage with Verific at:
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.verific.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/verific-design-automation-inc/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Verific-Design-Automation-100448363329771/

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Primarius Technologies will demonstrate its entire portfolio of EDA toolchain and one-stop design enablement solutions that integrate advanced parallelization technologies with industry-proven modeling and simulation engines at the 61st Design Automation Conference (DAC) June 24-26 at Moscone West in San Francisco.

Also announced today: Primarius acquired Magwel N.V., provider of 3D solver- and simulation-based layout analysis and design solutions for digital, analog/mixed-signal, power management, automotive and RF ICs, and launched ESDiTM, a chip-level human body model (HBM) analysis platform and power device design, and PTMTM, a layout verification tool family.

Demonstrations will highlight Primarius’ fast, accurate device modeling and cell library characterization and circuit simulation solutions based on its continuous innovation and R&D expertise, including:

• SDEPTM, the spec-driven extraction platform that builds auto model extraction flows for fast SPICE model extraction, a key engine enabling efficient Design-Technology Co-Optimization (DTCO), and an extended capability on top of the de facto golden-standard SPICE modeling platform, BSIMProPlusTM.
• NanoSpice XTM, the latest high-performance SPICE simulator addressing simulation capacity and accuracy challenges of big post-layout designs at advanced process nodes.
• NanoSpice Pro XTM, the latest FastSPICE simulator with simulation performance and accuracy needs tailored for SRAM, DRAM, Flash and big analog-on-top designs in high-performance computing, mobile, AI and other advanced applications.
• NanoCellTM, the latest standard cell library characterization solution employs advanced distributed parallel architecture technology and cell circuit analysis extraction algorithms embedded with a high-precision SPICE simulator, making it a fast, accurate and easy-to-use alternative to other commercial solutions.
• ESDi, state-of-the art HBM analysis, simulation and verification tool for on-chip ESD protection.

The Primarius Product Portfolio
IC company challenges designing and manufacturing high-end chips have increased sharply. Foundries and IDMs need to provide their design customers with more comprehensive and accurate SPICE models, more reliable and complete PDKs, and more coverage of standard cell library within shorter development cycles. Chip designers also require stronger COT capabilities to work with device engineers to customize process and devices, develop customized SPICE models, and perform re-characterization of cell libraries based on actual applications.

Primarius provides complete EDA toolchain and a one-stop design enablement technical development solutions. Innovations like these can shorten the SPICE model development cycle from several months to a few weeks or even hours for quick iteration addressing the efficiency bottleneck of DTCO. The advanced simulation technologies speed-up challenging circuit simulation by several times, and the latest cell library characterization solution provides the best throughput with near-linear scaling on thousands of x86 or ARM CPU cores on a computer farm or public cloud.

It aims to enable faster turnaround from technology development to advanced chip designs. Solutions include advanced analysis capabilities for high-sigma yield, aging, EM/IR, ESD, signal integrity and more targeting optimum yield and power, performance and area (PPA).

Primarius also provides the 9812 series, an industry-golden low frequency noise testing system used by most industry-leading semiconductor companies worldwide. Its latest release, 9812AC, is the only commercial low-frequency noise system under AC excitation and designed for the most advanced process development and chip designs.

Magwel N.V. Acquisition
Primarius acquired Belgian-based Magwel N.V. driven by broad market demand and technological evolution, integrating its chip-level HBM ESD analysis platform, the power device design and layout verification tool suite and other technologies into the Primarius portfolio.

“Primarius and Magwel share a common goal of enhancing the market competitiveness of overall analog and power semiconductor solutions,” states Dr. Lianfeng Yang, President of Primarius. “Magwel's integration will further advance our strategy to optimize DTCO, enhance our technology portfolio, expand our product coverage and further strengthen and consolidate our market competitiveness.”

Availability and Pricing
Primarius Technologies. Pricing is available upon request.

For more information, visit the Primarius website or send email to [email protected].

Primarius Technologies at 61st DAC
Primarius Technologies will be in DAC booth #1415 Monday, June 24, through Wednesday, June 26, from 10 a.m. until 6 p.m. at Moscone West in San Francisco.

To arrange a private meeting or demonstration of the Primarius Technologies product portfolio, send email to: [email protected].

DAC registration is open.

About Primarius
Primarius Technologies (688206.SH) is a global electronic design automation (EDA) company providing innovative DTCO-enabled EDA solutions for advanced technology development, and complex full custom designs including analog, mixed-signal and memory circuits. Primarius provides the industry’s de facto golden SPICE modeling solution adopted by most of the leading semiconductor companies for more than a decade, and leading SPICE/FastSPICE technologies proven by leading memory and SoC design companies worldwide. Its design enablement EDA solutions enable a full coverage of fab technology development and fabless COT flow development including device testing systems, SPICE modeling and PDK development solutions, and standard cell library characterization solutions. Built around an innovative SPICE/FastSPICE dual engine, Primarius provides a complete circuit simulation and analysis solution with comprehensive high-sigma yield and signal integrity analysis, aging and EM/IR, ESD simulation and advanced circuit checking capabilities. Primarius also provides a complete full custom design environment with advanced circuit design and optimization, layout automation and physical verification functions, and hierarchy design planning and timing analysis solutions for advanced SoC designs. Visit Primarius Technologies for more information.

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Axiomise, a company noted for enabling formal verification adoption, today announced the formation of its Technical Advisory Board and its first two members, Dr. Vidya Chandran Darbari and Colin McKellar.

Dr. Darbari is an Axiomise co-founder and company director as well as Senior Lecturer in Structural Biology at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL). McKellar, formerly Vice President of Imagination Technologies, is currently Senior Director of Hardware at X-Silicon Inc.

“Vidya and Colin have long served as my unofficial advisers and confidants as I built Axiomise from the ground up,” remarks Dr. Ashish Darbari, founder and CEO of Axiomise. “Formalizing our relationships with Vidya and Colin will further strengthen the company and the expertise of our formal verification experts.”

“I have had the pleasure of watching Axiomise grow from early startup to a formidable verification provider and I couldn’t be prouder,” states Dr. Darbari. “I look forward to adding my voice as a member of the Technical Advisory Board.

My relationship with Ashish goes back to the early days of Imagination,” notes McKellar. “I watched with amazement and respect as he implemented a rigorous formal verification flow that caught bugs that would have forced costly respins and threats to the company’s good name and reputation.”

About Dr. Vidya Chandran Darbari
Dr Vidya Chandran Darbari, an Axiomise co-founder and company director, has a multi-disciplinary record combining medicine, life sciences, mathematics and technology. A leader and key contributor who leads from the front, Dr. Darbari helped steer Axiomise from its early stages to establishing it as a global leader in formal verification consulting and services, training and RISC-V solutions. She is a senior lecturer at the Queen Mary University of London with several impactful publications in high-end journals including Nature and Science. Dr Darbari received her Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) degree from Seth G.S. Medical College (KEM Hospital) in Mumbai, India, before completing her Master of Technology (MTech) degree from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay. Dr. Darbari obtained her Doctorate degree from the University of Cambridge. She has been recognized for her innovative research through Biochemical Society Early Career Award, British Crystallographic Society Early Career prize and recently a Research Excellence Award by the Science and Engineering Faculty at QMUL.

About Colin McKellar
Colin McKellar brings the customer experience to the Axiomise team having been a key player in driving customer engagements in his previous roles with Apple, Intel, TI, SiFive and SEGA among others. He started his career in electronics 30 years ago in Sony Broadcast and Professional working on HD video encode and decode. Most of his career was spent working at Imagination Technologies as a key contributor to the graphics IP roadmap and was instrumental in bringing in and maturing a world-class verification infrastructure including simulation, formal verification and large FPGA, emulation and silicon farms. McKellar joined X-Silicon in 2023 with the responsibility to drive product and execution for bringing graphics and AI acceleration to the RISC-V ecosystem. He has a wealth of design and verification experience across GPU, CPU, AI and SoC chips successfully managing large multinational teams of more than 200 engineers.

About Axiomise
Axiomise is accelerating formal verification adoption through its unique combination of training, consulting, services and specialized verification solutions for RISC-V. Axiomise was founded by Dr. Ashish Darbari, FBCS, FIETE, DPhil (Oxford), who has been a formal verification practitioner for more than two decades with 60 patents in formal verification and over 70 publications.

Engage with Axiomise at:
Website: www.axiomise.com
Twitter: @axiomise
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/axiomise/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/axiomise

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HATFIELD, Pa. (USA), APRIL 18, 2024 — Brooks Instrument, a world leader in advanced flow measurement and control, has acquired Creative Machining Technology of Corona, California. The acquisition took place April 1, 2024, under Illinois Tool Works (ITW), Brooks Instrument’s parent company.

Creative Machining Technology (CMT) provides a variety of machining and manufacturing services, ranging from individual part production through end-item manufacturing, kitting and assembly.

The company has long been a key supplier to Brooks Instrument, with core competencies rooted in high-precision CNC machining. CMT has proven expertise manufacturing and polishing ultrahigh-purity components with extremely tight tolerances for demanding applications, including semiconductor manufacturing.

“By integrating Creative Machining Technology into Brooks Instrument, we are enhancing our in-house expertise for critical machined components and machining capabilities, which adds to our supply chain assurance for producing ultrahigh-purity instruments,” said Brent Best, Vice President and General Manager — Brooks Instrument Semiconductor Division, an ITW Company. “In addition, we’ve increased our capabilities for quick-turn customer R&D requests to create more innovative flow measurement and control solutions.”

CMT has extensive experience manufacturing to tolerances as tight as 0.0001". This proficiency and CMT’s manufacturing facilities will enable Brooks Instrument to more quickly and effectively design and produce complex wetted flow path components for the company’s industry-leading mass flow controllers (MFCs). MFCs are the most important element in the gas delivery systems used for semiconductor manufacturing. In addition, CMT has both Class 1,000 and Class 10,000 clean rooms for processing and handling extremely delicate electronic components that require a controlled environment.

“This acquisition is part of our strategic approach to grow our business and position us for long-term success in the semiconductor market as we ramp up to meet anticipated growth in this segment,” said Best. “Moving forward, we are excited to have CMT join Brooks Instrument as we focus on continuous improvement, growing our technology offerings and meeting our customers’ needs.”

The CMT acquisition is the latest in Brooks Instrument’s initiatives to serve the semiconductor industry. Earlier this year the company launched a new GF120xHT Series mass flow controller for high-temperature environments, while last year opened a new manufacturing site in Malaysia to expand production and partnership opportunities with key customers in the Asia-Pacific region.

For more information about Brooks Instrument’s full range of capabilities for the semiconductor industry, visit www.brooksinstrument.com/en/markets/semiconductor-manufacturing.

About Brooks Instrument
Since 1946, Brooks Instrument has been a leader in precision fluid measurement and control technology. Providing instrumentation for flow, pressure and vapor delivery, the company serves customers in semiconductor and high-tech manufacturing, laboratories and other processes and industries. With manufacturing, sales and service locations in the Americas, Europe and Asia, Brooks Instrument has the world’s largest installed base of mass flow controllers.

For more information, please visit www.BrooksInstrument.com. The company is also on LinkedIn (www.linkedin.com/company/Brooks-Instrument) and YouTube (www.youtube.com/user/Brooks407).

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Brewer Science is the first and only company in the semiconductor industry with GreenCircle Certification.

Rolla, Mo.– April 3, 2024–Brewer Science, a global technology leader, is pleased to announce it has earned Zero Waste to Landfill Certification for the ninth consecutive year. The Zero Waste to Landfill Certification represents Brewer Science’s commitment to the responsible management of end-of-life materials and demonstrates the company’s commitment to waste diversion practices.

Brewer Science is the first and only company in the semiconductor and microelectronics industry to achieve GreenCircle Certification – Zero Waste to Landfill. GreenCircle certifies an organization for Zero Waste to Landfill Certification if 100% of the materials leaving the facility are intended to be diverted from landfill via one of GreenCircle’s acceptable means of diversion. Waste diversion from landfill, defined as the prevention and reduction of generated waste through source reduction, recycling, reuse, or composting, has been characterized as one of the best ways manufacturing companies can demonstrate genuine environmental responsibility.

Sustainability continues to be a prominent focus for Brewer Science, with remarkable progress towards goals, including:

• Net Zero Carbon Footprint by 2050
• Reduce Scope 1 and Scope 2 GHG emissions by 80% from baseline 2018 by 2030
• Divert over 75% of hazardous waste volume to re-use applications annually
• Achieve 100% renewable energy consumption annually

Education continues to play an important role in advocating for sustainable development across the supply chain. Brewer Science has developed a new program aimed at bridging the gap in environmental initiatives among its stakeholders. You can find the Sustainability Outreach Program at the bottom of Brewer Science’s Going Green webpage.

Brewer Science provides a comprehensive evaluation of the company’s five impact areas in its annual Impact Report, which can also be found on the Going Green page.

“The Sustainability Outreach Program we are launching this year is designed to work with our partners, whether that be our employees, suppliers, customers, or other organizations in the communities in which we serve, to collaborate and align on sustainability programs and projects to have a net positive impact on the environment,” states Matthew Beard, Executive Director, Strategic Planning, Management Systems, and Sustainability at Brewer Science.

For semiconductor companies, it is essential to evaluate the materials used in manufacturing, identify any more environmentally friendly alternatives, and handle the waste responsibly. Brewer Science established its Green Chemistry Program in 2019, which is an effort to identify chemical alternatives that are proven to be more sustainable, as well as divert hazardous materials for reuse applications. Additionally, Brewer Science organizes an annual community collection recycling program partnering with waste disposal companies and volunteer crews to prevent community e-waste from becoming a part of a landfill. The company shares about its sustainability programs on its “Going Green” page to encourage other tech companies to adopt more sustainable practices.

About Brewer Science
Brewer Science is a global leader in developing and manufacturing next-generation materials and processes that foster the technology needed for tomorrow. Since 1981, we’ve expanded our technology portfolio within advanced lithography, advanced packaging, smart devices, and printed electronics to enable cutting-edge microdevices and unique monitoring systems for industrial, environmental, and air applications. Our relationship-focused approach provides outcomes that facilitate and deliver critical information. Our headquarters are in Rolla, Missouri, with customer support throughout the world. We invite you to learn more about Brewer Science at www.brewerscience.com.

About the GreenCircle Certified, LLC
GreenCircle Certified, LLC was established to ensure specificity in third-party certification after encountering many unsubstantiated claims in the marketplace. Since 2009, GreenCircle has offered forward-thinking companies a competitive advantage by providing specific, third-party certification of environmental claims. GreenCircle’s rigorous evaluation process provides independent verification that claims of sustainable aspects of products and operations are valid. Manufacturers, suppliers, regulators, occupants, and consumers can be assured that products labeled with the GreenCircle Certified mark have been thoroughly assessed and their claims verified to applicable standards. Learn more at www.greencirclecertified.com/.

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Kitchener, Ontario, April 2, 2024 – The SEMI North America Information and Control Committee (I&CC) has announced that Albert Fuchigami, a Senior Standards Specialist at PEER Group®, has been confirmed as a Technical Committee co-chair during its recently held spring meeting.

As an I&CC co-chair, Fuchigami will help coordinate the various SEMI task forces responsible for the development and maintenance of communication and control SEMI Standards used to automate the semiconductor manufacturing process. Fuchigami will also play an important role in facilitating collaboration between the regional technical committees while providing mentorship and guidance on navigating SEMI rules and regulations.

“I greatly appreciate the support from committee members to confirm me as co-chair,” says Fuchigami. “SEMI I&C Standards are essential to satisfy our industry’s ever growing demands for big data, smart manufacturing, and automation in an efficient and scalable manner. I look forward to helping move their development further in this role.”

Fuchigami is heavily involved in the SEMI Standards Program in North America, Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, and China. He co-leads the SEMI North America Data Diagnostic Acquisition (DDA) Task Force, has authored various SEMI articles and tech briefs, and regularly shares his knowledge and expertise at industry conferences and events.

In recognition of his contributions to the international SEMI Standards program, Fuchigami was awarded the North American SEMI International Standards Leadership Award in 2022 and the Japan Information and Control Technical Committee Award in 2021.

About PEER Group
PEER Group® is the largest supplier of innovative factory automation software products for the semiconductor industry. Since 1992, our solutions have helped the world’s most advanced OEMs and factories reduce time to market and lower costs by solving their equipment automation, data management, and process control problems. An award-winning company, PEER Group’s commitment to quality has been recognized by Intel’s EPIC Supplier Program, naming PEER Group a Distinguished Supplier in 2024. Follow PEER Group on LinkedIn.

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