FLEX 2021: Making the World Safer – Call for Abstracts Now Open!
Is your company working on the next big thing in flexible, hybrid and printed electronics – a breakthrough or innovation that will make the world safer, healthier or more productive for years to come? If so, we want to hear from you.
Nurturing Engineering Careers – Workforce Development at SEMICON West
To attract and cultivate new talent across the microelectronics industry, virtual SEMICON West 2020 offered wide-ranging career insights for engineering students seeking that vital first job and young employees embarking on their careers. They...
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at SEMICON WEST 2020: Urgent Calls to Action
The long-simmering issue of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) in the workplace reached a boiling point in recent months. Protests around social injustice arose while COVID-19 disruptions exposed the significant digital and economic disparities...
COVID-19 Best Practices in the Spotlight: SEMI Korea Holds On-Site Chip Manufacturing Tutorial
SEMI Korea is back on track. New confirmed COVID-19 cases in Korea now average about 50 per day – with more than half from abroad – after peaking in early March, setting the stage for the Seoul office’s first on-site program since the global...
Gore, Dickerson and Kelly Speak Out on Sustainability – Highlights from SEMICON West 2020 Keynotes
At SEMICON West 2020, the Honorable Al Gore, former U.S. Vice President and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize for environmental activism, commented on the world being in the midst of a “sustainability revolution.” Just what did he mean by that, and...
Community and Collaboration: Keys to Tackling Global Challenges with Microelectronics
Humanity has survived almost unimaginable challenges over the past 5,000 years of documented human history. From war, famine and natural disasters to the first global pandemic in the last 100 years, more often than not, people have relied on one...
SEMI Taiwan Forum Takeaways: Heterogeneous Integration a Key Driver of 5G and AI Innovation
Emerging applications powered by 5G and artificial intelligence (AI) are expected to be a boon to the semiconductor industry, but only once chipmakers overcome a key challenge: Architecting chips that meet the exacting performance, power...
SEMI Tech Spotlight: Fighting the COVID-19 Pandemic with Big Data-AI Enabled Platforms
During the COVID-19 pandemic, the SEMI Global Advocacy team has been working tirelessly to ensure the microelectronics manufacturing and design supply chain is classified as an “essential business” in the United States and for similar designations...
SEMI Japan Urges Essential Business Designation for Domestic Chip Supply Chain
Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe declared a state of emergency for Tokyo, Osaka and five other prefectures[1] on April 7 in response to a startling increase of COVID-19 infections in the region’s cities in an uneasy moment for its domestic...
SEMI Urges ‘Essential Business’ Designation of Chip Companies Worldwide to Help Ensure Continuous Operation
SEMI has urged government representatives around the U.S. and world to designate the semiconductor industry as an essential business so operations at companies across the chip supply chain can continue without interruption as the spread of COVID-19...