Enhancing Yield by Minimizing Contamination: ALD Coatings for Critical Chamber Components
With each transition to a new technology node, fab requirements for metal and particle contamination become more stringent, posing challenges for existing coating methods such as anodization or plasma spray that may not provide complete protection...
From Smart Manufacturing Vision to Innovative Advanced Technical Service Solutions, TEL Delivers
SEMI spoke with Eyal Shekel, senior vice president of Service Strategy and Excellence at Tokyo Electron Limited, about the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on smart manufacturing and how other fab solutions for smarter process tools are...
A Critical Subsystem Supplier’s Response to COVID-19: Interview with President of HORIBA STEC
Semiconductor equipment spending is mounting a strong recovery on the strength of explosive chip demand for work-at-home and study-at-home electronics fueled by the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite the growth, the 2017-2018 memory boon that triggered a...
Sandia Ensures Sustainable Future with Fab Upgrade
Sandia National Laboratories just finished updating equipment in its microelectronics fab, marking the completion of the first phase of a 3-year fab upgrade program. The transition from 6-inch to 8-inch wafer sizes will align the Department of...
SEMI China Members Day 2019 — Robust Supply Chain Key to Buildout of China’s Semiconductor Industry
Shenyang is on an unwavering path to maturing its integrated circuit (IC) equipment manufacturing industry over the next few decades in response to the Made in China 2025 Strategy. Since the strategy’s introduction in 2015, the city, long a...
Automated Material Handling for Semiconductor Assembly and Test
OSATs (outsourced assembly and test companies) currently handle the bulk of assembly and test activity for the worldwide semiconductor industry. These companies’ factories have a manual operation legacy: Decision-making is manual. Materials and WIP...
Identifying PFOA Levels in the Equipment Supply Chain and the Threat to the Secondary Equipment Market
Introduction
Starting July 4, 2022, PFOA (Perfluorooctanoic acid) levels in semiconductor manufacturing and related equipment (SMRE), including replacement parts, entering the European Union (EU) will be restricted to 25 ppb per component (or any...
Being "Idle" to Make Money - How Powering Down Pays Off
Large semiconductor fabs can devour electricity at clip of 100 megawatts per hour -- enough to power 50,000 homes1 and, according to a McKinsey study, more than automobile plants and oil refineries consume. So ravenous is their electricity...