Whenever Francoise organizes an event, she always manages to compose a mixture of entertainment, real work and valuable education. This...
On Thursday, September 17, I was invited to attend TSMC’s Open Innovation Platform (OIP) conference, that showed TSMC’s rapid progress...
In a recent blog sharing my impressions of July’s Semicon West, I complained a bit about the lack of substantial IC...
In July and August schools are closed and many people like to take vacation. Typically nothing major happens during these...
A few weeks ago, San Francisco’s Moscone Center hosted the Design Automation Conference (DAC 2015), with many EDA experts and...
By attracting 7011 EDA and IP developers and users, the 52 Design Automation Conference, held in the South Hall of San...
As promised in part 1 of my ECTC 2015 blog about this impressive conference, see below summaries of presentations I...
Last week I attended the record-breaking 65th ECTC in San Diego: 20 percent more attendees, compared to last year’s conference...
On Thursday and Friday of last week, Monterey, California’s previous state capital, became the center of presentations and discussions about IC...
Last Tuesday, April 7, was another important day for Silicon Valley. TSMC 2015 Technology Symposium celebrated 21 years of holding this annual...
From March 16-20 the annual SEMI-THERM Conference (SEMI-THERM 2015) in San Jose gave me the opportunity to meet many assembly, materials,...
Continuing from Part 1: On Thursday morning I really enjoyed the Monolithic 3D session. Francoise already reported about it, so...
Full disclosure: I spent the first half of my life in Europe. I was born and raised in Austria, and...
DesignCon’s 2015‘s tag-line “where the chip meets the board”, was a very appropriate message, and summarized in a few words...
And what are we going to do about it in 2015…? A moment ago I finished reading my predictions for...
Years ago, when I gave my first 3D technology presentations, I noticed very different reactions from my diverse audience: The...
Like the previous 10 years, RTI International held the 11th 3D-IC focused conference in early December. Instead of the usual...
Dear Semiconductor / EDA expert, In my role as business development consultant, I, Herb Reiter, am getting involved in many...
Don’t miss a full morning of expert presentations about 3D-IC and Interposer design tools and methodologies! Since 2004, every December RTI...
Interposer designs and 3D ICs shift a significant part of the value creation to material vendors and assembly/test houses. It’s...