The Effects of the U.S. Midterm Elections – What Might We Expect?
With (most of) the election results in from the U.S. midterms, the expected Democratic takeover of the House and the Republican’s maintaining control of the Senate is now a reality. The day of the election, DC insiders expected that the House would...
Nov. 29: Join the SEMI EHS Summit, Shape the Future SEMI EHS Program
Environmentally sound policies and the health and the safety of workers in the microelectronics supply chain are vitally important to SEMI and its members. For more than two decades, together we have focused on worker safety by focusing on global...
U.S. Announces Trade Talks with Japan, the EU, and UK; Action Will Benefit Semiconductor Industry
Last week, the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR), on instruction from President Trump, notified Congress that the administration intends to begin bilateral trade negotiations with Japan, the European Union (EU), and the United Kingdom.
The Gigafab Minute and SEMI Standards: A Modern Miracle
Even for someone who has been in this industry since the days of the TI Datamath 4-function calculator and the TMS1100 4-bit microcontroller (yes, that’s been a LONG time – the movie Grease premiered the same year!), it is sometimes hard to grasp...
Japan – A Thriving, Highly Versatile Chip Manufacturing Region
On June 1st, 2018, Toshiba sold Toshiba Memory, Toshiba’s memory business, to an investment group led by Bain Capital. Toshiba Memory was then owned by a consortium of American, Japanese and Korean companies.
SEMI Calls for Exclusion Process for Products in New China Tariff List
Amid U.S.-China Trade War, SEMI Urges International Cooperation in Shanghai Press Conference
Tensions between the U.S. and China have reached fever pitch as the Trump administration imposed higher tariffs on $200 billion of Chinese goods last Monday, adding to the $50 billion in goods hit with higher duties earlier this year. Bloomberg News
U.S.-China Trade War Heats Up with Semiconductor Industry Caught in the Middle
U.S. Government Imposes Tariffs on $200 Billion of Goods and China Retaliates on $60 Billion of Goods
Earlier this week, the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) released a 10 percent tariff on $200 billion in imports from China, including more than 90...
China Trade Brings Semiconductor Executives to DC for the Fall Washington Forum
Last week, more than a dozen senior semiconductor executives traveled to Washington, DC for the first-ever Fall Washington Forum. The SEMI Washington Forum, a venue for SEMI members to educate lawmakers about the industry, focused on action against...
Top 10 Semiconductor Industry Innovations - Dr. Morris Chang, Father of the IC Foundry Model
Over the past three decades, most of the world’s innovations have centered largely on business models and involved iterative advances of existing technologies, with none matching the global impact of the top 10 semiconductor industry discoveries and...