SEMI ISS 2025: Ready, Set, Ramp!
Jan 22, 2025 · By Dean Freeman · 3D In Context
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Nuclear is Out. How Do We Solve the High Tech Sustainability Problem?
The past 2 weeks have been a whirlwind of activity in high tech sustainability. We’ve moved from using nuclear power...
The Funds Keep on Rolling for CHIPS for America R&D
The CHIPS Act continues to issue grants to help advance the United States position in semiconductor and advanced technology. Two...
My How the Pendulum Swings
Why the AI Energy Crisis is Driving Us back to Coal and Nuclear Energy When I was an undergrad in...
TSMC OIP 2024: Strong Partnerships Drive 3D Packaging
I have spent a considerable amount of time covering the technology associated with the front-, and back end of-the-line. So...
What is Causing the Semiconductor Workforce Paradox?
One of the challenges for the semiconductor industry over a significant time period has been finding workers who have the...
Now There Are Four
(2nm semiconductor manufacturing foundries) UMC started the semiconductor manufacturing foundry business in 1980, followed a few years later by TSMC....
SEMI’s Sustainability Startup Summit Round Three
If you watched the Summer Olympics in Paris, one of the challenges the Athletes faced was the temperature. With a...
SEMI Market Symposium: A Trillion Dollars is Still in Sight
Semicon West in July coincides with many analysts’ mid-year forecasts. The SEMI Market Symposium has long been a show staple,...
Sustainability and Semiconductors at SEMICON WEST 2024
SEMI has increasingly focused on sustainability and semiconductors in the past three years, growing from a few keynote talks at...
AI and VLSI
What do oxide transistors, ferroelectrics, 2-dimensional channel layers, CFETS, Advanced packaging, AI, and tradewinds have in common? They were all...
Sustainability is Busting Out all Over!
When prepping for this month’s sustainability blog, the song, June is Busting Out All Over, from Rogers and Hammerstein’s Carousel,...
Semiconductor Industry Collaboration is the Key
40 years ago in 1984, the semiconductor industry was in one of its many transitions. The USA had lost its...
Will AI be Powered by Renewables? Maybe, But Not for Long
Earth Day has passed. Companies’ ESP/social responsibility reports are beginning to appear and they have been commenting on their progress...
How Advanced Lithography Evolution Will Impact 3D Packaging
In 1987, the lithography team I worked with returned from SPIE and presented our findings from the conference. Ultra-violet (UV)...
SEMI Kicks off Year Three of the SCC and Startups for Sustainability
It is popular for mainstream media to publicize different industry’s energy consumption and environmental habits. The semiconductor industry is not...
Taking Stock of Global Investments in Semiconductor Manufacturing
The geopolitical race to take the lead in semiconductors is heating up as global investments in semiconductor manufacturing take hold....
Electronics Recycling: There’s Gold in Those Old Electronic Gadgets!
When you replace your PC with an AI-enabled one, will you make sure your old device goes into an electronics...
Will the Intel Foundry Model Succeed?
The foundry world has been big news in the past few weeks. TSMC started up the Kumamoto Fab, Japan’s leading-edge...
What the Ski and Semiconductor Industries Have in Common
From November to April for the past seven years, I have spent a considerable amount of time on the snow...
