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Three Ways to Meet Manufacturing Rules in Advanced Package Designs – SemiWiki

Sep 15, 2022 | SemiWiki.com

Often designers are amazed at the diversity of requirements fabricators and manufacturers have for metal filled areas in advanced package designs. Package fabricators and manufacturers do not like solid metal planes or large metal areas. Their strict metal fill requirements address two main issues. The dielectric and metal… Read More The post Three Ways to […]

A Conversation about The Advantages of Collaboration between the Mexico and the US for Semiconductor Manufacturing

Sep 08, 2022 | 3D InCites Podcast

In this episode, Françoise speaks with Dr. Juan Terrazas, the Director of the College of Engineering at CETYS University about the benefits of cross-border manufacturing relationships between the US and Mexico to help alleviate the strains of the semiconductor crisis. In the aftermath of President Biden’s signing of the CHIPS and Science Act, we’ve been […]

A Conversation with Beth Keser and James Haley about What’s Happening at the IMAPS International Symposium

Sep 06, 2022 | 3D InCites Podcast

The IMAPS International Symposium takes place October 4-7, 2022 at the Hynes Auditorium in Boston MA.  This year’s Symposium theme is Packaging Technologies Enabling the New Normal, and will feature 20 sessions in five technical tracks, plus an Interactive Poster Session. The technical program will span three days of sessions with an emphasis on packaging […]

A Conversation with Katy Crist and Tara Greig About the Roadtrip Nation Experience

Aug 25, 2022 | 3D InCites Podcast

Earlier this year, we brought you an episode about Roadtrip Nation – an initiative the SEMI Foundation sponsored to raise awareness among recent STEM graduates about opportunities in the semiconductor industry. We interviewed SEMI Foundation’s Shari Liss, to get all the details. You can listen to the episode here. In this follow-up episode, we’re speaking […]

A Conversation the Role Veterans Can Play in the Microelectronics Industry Workforce

Aug 18, 2022 | 3D InCites Podcast

This podcast episode was recorded live at SEMICON West 2022 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, where critical discussions about the latest issues impacting the semiconductor industry took place.   Chips aren’t the only thing in short supply, the semiconductor industry talent shortage continues, and SEMI has launched a workforce initiative to address this. In […]

A Conversation with Laura Matz About Pioneering Secure Data Collaboration for Semiconductor Manufacturing

Aug 11, 2022 | 3D InCites Podcast

In this episode, Françoise von Trapp interviews Laura Matz, CEO of Athinia™ and Chief Science and Technology Officer of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, about the growing need for data collaboration between materials suppliers and semiconductor device manufacturers, and the solution she helped create. Over the past 10 years, more new materials have been introduced into […]

Chiplets at the Design Automation Conference – SemiWiki

Aug 04, 2022 | SemiWiki.com

SemiWiki has been tracking the popularity of chiplets for two years now so it was not surprising to see that they played a key role at DAC. The other trend we foresaw was that the ASIC companies would be early chiplet adopters and that has proven true. One of the more vocal proponents of chiplets […]