Overcoming Chip Defectivity Challenges in Automotive
In the future, electronics-related gear including advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS) will account for a whopping 50 percent of automotive costs. More importantly, with more control of vehicles shifting to automation, the margin of error in...
Gender Parity in the Workplace – Insights from 2019 McKinsey & Company Report
As technology companies worldwide struggle to narrow the yawning gender parity gap, organizations in other industries ranging from insurance and food services to banking have emerged as guiding lights for how to boost the number of women in the...
More Than Skin Deep: Skin-Inspired Electronics for Smart Healthcare at FLEX|MSTC 2020
As the body’s largest organ, skin is responsible for the transduction of a vast amount of information. This conformable, stretchable, self-healable and biodegradable material simultaneously collects signals from external stimuli, which translates...
Scientists Study Sweat, the Small Stuff
A multidisciplinary team of researchers is developing new methods to collect and analyze sweat for clues about how the body is functioning.
MEMS-FHE Device Integration Gets Real
MEMS technology has changed human interaction with electronic devices. Introduced in the 1990s, the first mass-market MEMS devices were used for inkjet printheads and automotive airbag crash sensors. Today, MEMS are ubiquitous, with billions of the...
Why You Need to Think about Supply-Chain Diversity
At Intel, we look for ways to apply our technology to address global challenges while serving as a role model for how companies should operate. When it comes to our suppliers, Intel expects strong partners that help build successful solutions while...
Flexible Hybrid Electronics Comes to Bio-Interfacing and Biodegradable Electronics at FLEX|MSTC 2020
VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd (VTT) has its sights set high. As a leading global research and development firm , VTT is out to produce bio-interfacing and biodegradable flexible hybrid electronics (FHE) devices that help tackle some...
Next Generation of Mobile Devices Will Be Invisible
Today’s mobile devices are smaller, more power-efficient, and have more capability than we could have imagined just a decade ago. Offering ever-increasing levels of user functionality, mobile devices are now ubiquitous, and are rapidly becoming the...
Making the Invisible Visible: Automated Defect Detection Improves Sapphire Yields
Sapphire is a precious gemstone, consisting of aluminum oxide (α-Al2O3) with occasional traces of other elements such as iron, titanium, chromium, vanadium or magnesium. While sapphire stones found in nature mostly go to jewelry applications, the...
Chip Industry Shines in Award-Winning Sustainable Development Online Course Offered by University of Bristol
In a shining hour for Prof. Mike Czerniak, environmental manager for Edwards Ltd., a SEMI member company, and Chemistry Prof. Simon O’ Doherty of the University of Bristol, the educators presented a case study on efforts by the semiconductor and...