SEMI met with Heinz Martin Esser, managing director at Fabmatics GmbH, to discuss how existing 200mm semiconductor fabs can master the challenges of a 24x7 production under highest cost and quality pressure by implementing intralogistics...
Turning the Tide: Microelectronics to Revolutionize Stroke Treatment
March 31, 2020
Ischemic stroke is the leading cause of long-term disability worldwide, affecting over 13 million people each year and costing tens of billions of dollars. Sensome, a French medtech that offers connected medical devices, has developed micrometric...
Making the Invisible Visible: Automated Defect Detection Improves Sapphire Yields
January 13, 2020
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...
6 Key Takeaways from SEMICON Europa Smart MedTech Summit
December 12, 2019
“A hundred years from now, someone’s going to look back and say, ‘Can you believe they waited until you got a disease, and then they did something?’” This observation from Dr. William Hait, the leader of Johnson & Johnson’s External Innovation...
Organ-on-chip Systems: Platform for Personalized Medicine
November 8, 2019
Healthcare has traditionally focused on one-size fits-all medication to treat populations instead of tailoring treatments to individual patients. Recent advances in stem cell technology allow researchers to create disease models for personalized...
Cloud Engineering Simulation: A Game Changer for Chip Designers
November 7, 2019
The microelectronics industry is entering the era of Cloud Engineering Simulation to slash the costs and risks of new technology development and speed time-to-market in spaces like semiconductors, MEMS sensors, RF front ends, biomedical and...
Automotive Trends: Chip Traceability, Zero Defects and Collaboration
August 29, 2019
Automotive original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and their direct suppliers of parts and systems share a vision: Next-generation vehicles will be more electric, autonomous and connected. At a market size of more than $1 trillion, automotive is...
A New Collaborative Approach to Automobile Industry Reliability Challenges
October 25, 2018
SEMI spoke with Antoine Amade, Regional Senior Director EMEA at Entegris, about the challenges set by the car industry, and the concept of “zero defect” and the need for a collaborative approach ahead of his presentation at the Strategic Materials...
MEMS – One Product, One Process?
October 15, 2018
SEMI spoke with Udo Gómez, senior vice president at Robert Bosch GmbH, about MEMS technology requirements relative to standard IC design and manufacturing. Gómez highlighted solutions to challenges of MEMS technology development and manufacturing...
Wafer-Level Chip Scale Packages: Reliability and Validation Testing Using Simulation Methodology
October 8, 2018
SEMI spoke with Balaji Nandhivaram Muthuraman, Package and Material Simulation engineer at Dialog Semiconductor, about the state of reliability testing for wafer-level chip scale packages ahead of his presentation at the Advanced Packaging Conference