Meeting Sustainability Goals Hits Political and Technical Headwinds
Feb 26, 2025 · By Dean Freeman · 3D In Context, Blogs
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Another Microelectronics Crisis? The Automotive Chip Shortage and Supply Chains
My, what a fix the microelectronics industry has gotten itself into! Three crises happening all at the same time: One...
Holy San Francisco Batman, SEMICON West 2021 will be held in December!
This past week SEMI announced that SEMICON West 2o21 will be a hybrid affair with both a live conference and...
Sustainability: We Will Always Have Paris
On a trip home from Dresden, Germany, my plane was delayed by fog. A fellow analyst and I just missed...
2020 Hindsight and 2021 Insight: Edge Computing, 5G, Trade Wars and COVID-19
2020 was a roller coaster of a year from both a forecasting perspective and trying to keep up with shipments....
News Analysis: What’s Really Going on Inside Intel?
Intel has been in the news for the first weeks of 2021. While this is not unusual due to CES...
The Importance of Sustainability in Semiconductor Manufacturing
Sustainability is one of today’s hottest topics in the news, and how to improve sustainability efforts is discussed at companies...
EDPS 2020: An Inside Look at the Manufacturing-centric Presentations
Like many other industry conferences, the Electronic Design Process Symposium (EDPS 2020) had to go virtual. Not only did it...
IC Packaging Technologies Contribute to Smaller, Faster, Cheaper Electronic Systems with Longer Battery Life
During in-person and on-line meetings, I often discuss with friends the impressive progress our industry has made in the last...
Highlights from SEMI’s Smart MedTech Webinar Series
If you bought a new car recently, you must have noticed that it warns you if one of its functions...
The TSMC 2020 Virtual Technology Symposium and OIP Ecosystem Forum
Just like most other events that attract a large number of people, TSMC 2020 events were held online too. While...
Smart Mobility: An Impactful and High-growth Market
About 70% of the U.S. Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is driven by consumer demand. What consumers are looking for is...
ISES 2020 Highlights Asia’s Advanced IC Packaging and HI Capabilities
Several decades ago, Asia began its quest to be a reliable and cost-effective IC packaging, assembly, and test partner for...
DAC 2020 Addresses Chiplet Design and Integration
In the early days of ASIC technology, only logic library elements and basic I/Os with up to 10s of transistors...
TechSearch Presentation Highlights Key Developments in Advanced Packaging
In a recent MEPTEC / iMAPS webinar, Jan Vardaman, President, and Founder of TechSearch International presented growth drivers for advanced packaging...
3D ICs Tear Down the Dreaded Memory Wall and Save Power
About 50 years ago, I started my career as a system-level designer, focused on an interface card for the Siemens...
FCC-approved BLE and LoRa module includes Antenna in Package
In engineering school, I learned that different laws of physics apply when the widely used electricity with 50/60 Hertz gets...
An EDA Perspective on Today’s Advanced Packaging
In my alliance management roles at electronic design automation (EDA) companies, I arranged many presentations to convey the benefits of...
ECTC 2020 Online is Accessible at No Charge
When I switched my focus from single-die SoCs to multi-die ICs, I had to learn a lot about IC packaging...
EDA and the Heterogeneous Integration Roadmap
In Austria, where I grew up, homes get passed on from generation to generation. Like many Austrians, I had a...
