Nuclear is Out. How Do We Solve the High Tech Sustainability Problem?
Nov 20, 2024 · By Dean Freeman · 3D In Context, Blogs
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Semiconductor Sustainability at IEDM 2023
The Semiconductor industry has been ramping up its focus on sustainability for the past three to four years. Strong sustainability...
Much Ado About Fabs in China
China’s semiconductor industry has been in the news a great deal over the past year. 7nm technology advancements, sanctions, new...
Getting Every Semiconductor Company to Net Zero
My sustainability news feed has been filled with articles regarding COP 28, and news of successes and failures regarding the...
Will AI-Enabled PCs Be the Next Inflection Point?
September and October are busy months in the technology world, as companies have their annual analyst day, where they show...
Tracking and Reporting Sustainability: A Stake in the Sand
As sustainability matures, the fall of the year seems to be when there is a significant focus on sustainability, culminating...
The CHIPS Act – Here Comes the Money
It’s been a busy time on the semiconductor industry front: SEMICON Taiwan; Intel’s Innovation Day; glass interposers making it to...
Solving Semiconductor Greenhouse Gas Chemistry Challenges
A significant amount of the focus on sustainability in the semiconductor space is on Scope 2 and Scope 3 emission....
Farms in Berkeley or Fabs in India
If you spent any time listening to the radio in Silicon Valley, prior to 1998, you probably heard a commercial...
SEMI’s 2023 S3 Forum Shows Industry Collaboration
Sustainability and collaboration are two keywords that are being used in the semiconductor industry. On the chip and equipment development...
The World Goes Round, and So Does the Semiconductor Industry
The world’s understanding of the semiconductor industry has gone from — What is a semiconductor? — to front-page news, as...
Collaboration in Sustainability is the Word
SEMI has fully embraced sustainability. Starting slow pre-COVID, they have ramped up and become a significant force in the industry....
Building a Path Forward at SEMICON West 2023
When I started writing this blog post, SEMICON West 2023 was to be a historic event — the last one...
The Other Side of TSMC’s Chip In Story
Paul Harvey, a news radio personality was famous for his trademark “the other side of the story”. At the close...
The Alphabet Soup of 3D Packaging
More than a few years ago, somewhere around 28nm, my working group was discussing the potential demise of “Moore’s Law”....
Will Startups for Semiconductor Sustainability Help Reduce Our Carbon Footprint?
There is no shortage of topics for someone writing about sustainability in May. April went from having Earth Day to...
The Convergence of Technology Nodes
The photo of my May calendar was a picture of a 1956 RAMAC computer with a whopping five megabytes of...
Did the SVB Failure Launch Another High-Tech Financial Crisis?
As Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) and Signature Bank failures were happening, I read a Facebook post that commented, 1929 again?...
Creating a Semiconductor Workforce for the Future
There are multiple challenges facing the semiconductor industry as multiple new fabs launch across the United States. A key one...
Progress in Sustainability: Will it be Enough?
Progress in Sustainability has become one of SEMI’s key focus points in supporting its members. It was initiated with a...
