Fab Owners Alliance: Enabling Global Manufacturing Efficiency Through Collaboration
Imagine a world where there are chips in about everything we touch on a daily basis. It is not hard to do with semiconductors already at the core of many leading-edge electronic devices. These sophisticated chips are hidden from sight, but their...
Blockchain Opportunities in the Semiconductor and Electronics Manufacturing Supply Chain
Semiconductor, electronics and equipment manufacturers today face a number of logistics and supply chain challenges that could be overcome by systems providing a secure, tamper-resistant, single source of truth. Chief among these challenges is...
RITdb: The Interplanetary Database for Manufacturing
RITdb is a semiconductor manufacturing database project organized as a Working Group under SEMI’s CAST (Collaborative Alliance for Semiconductor Test) Technology Community. Originally, RITdb was the “Rich Interactive Test Database” and the original...
Agile Manufacturing of Glass Carriers for Advanced Packaging
SEMI met with Jay Zhang, business development director at Corning Incorporated, to discuss recent innovations at Corning that allow fine granularity CTE engineering as well as high Young’s modulus. We also talked about the impact of this work on...
Zero Energy Connection (0eC) - A New Way to Transfer Data
SEMI met with Erez Halahmi, vice president at 0eC SA, to discuss a new way to transfer information not only between chips but also between servers to reduce power consumption while boosting performance. The two spoke ahead of his presentation at the...
Advanced Testing Paradigm Shifting in Era of Heterogeneous Integration
New SEMI Taiwan Testing Committee to strengthen the last line of defense to ensure the reliability of advanced semiconductor applications.
SCIS Seals & Valves Group Develops Seals Testing Standard
SCIS is a SEMI Technology Community that tackles critical component defectivity for the semiconductor manufacturing industry. The organization develops test methods for measuring defects in these critical components. Originally, this SEMI community...
Smart Manufacturing and Digital Twins for the Semiconductor Industry
Semiconductor fabs have been getting smarter and smarter over the past 30 years. It’s a natural evolution – the direct outcome of numerous continuous-improvement efforts. The really important difference on the road to smarter fabs, the one change...
Device Traceability and SEMI’s Single Device Tracking Initiatives
The Single Device Traceability Task Force emerged from SEMI CAST’s identification of the need for device traceability through the supply chain — not just traceability for devices but for component parts such as semiconductor die, lead frames, epoxy,...
Revising SEMI-E135 to Improve Testing Standards for RF Generators
Gas plasmas have become a fundamental building block in many semiconductor manufacturing processes. Plasma torches used to create these gas plasmas have three components: an induction coil, a plasma confinement tube, and a gas distributor or torch...