The countdown to The ConFab has officially begun. The dates are set: next year’s event will be held June 23-26, 2013 and we’ll be back at the Encore at The Wynn Las Vegas (an encore at The Encore!). Thanks to…
SEMICON West 2012: Where Has the Love Gone?
Has the romance between the MEMS and semiconductor industries started to fizzle? Or is the real issue that for new equipment vendors, the appeal and shiny/sexy new-ness of MEMS has faded as they salivate in anticipation of a switch from…
Sensors Expo report: MEMS Pre-Conference Symposium
MEMS in the mainstream — Music to my ears For the second year in a row, MEMS Industry Group was host to the Sensors Expo Pre-Conference Symposium, and this year’s theme was "MEMS in the Mainstream: Commercialization and Product Realization…
MEMS isn’t NEW
What do you think of when I say the words "MEMS new product development?" Do you envision new categories of newly discovered MEMS hatching somewhere in a university lab? If your answer is "yes," perhaps you should rethink that —…
Conference Report: MEMS Executive Congress Europe
ST’s Carmelo Papa boldly declared that "MEMS is only limited by the imagination" during his opening keynote at MEMS Executive Congress Europe. In many ways this phrase exemplifies the conference itself. All of the speakers on our four panels —…
The Elephant Has Left the Room – 450 mm is a Go!
It’s the day before Semicon opens up, and we have had a slew of announcements on 450 mm, the biggest of which was the joint ASML/Intel notice that Intel will be taking a share of ASML as a way of…
Sony’s PS Vita Uses Chip-on-Chip SiP – 3D, but not 3D
At the tail end of last year Sony released their PlayStation Vita, and it was duly torn down by iFixit and others. In due course we took it apart too, though we didn’t post it on our teardown blog. Sony…
Sony’s PS Vita Uses Chip-on-Chip SiP – 3D, but not 3D
At the tail end of last year Sony released their PlayStation Vita, and it was duly torn down by iFixit and others. In due course we took it apart too, though we didn’t post it on our teardown blog. Sony…
The ConFab: Big data is here
Sponsors and delegates arrived today in sunny Las Vegas, for the 8th annual "The ConFab," our conference and networking event that features planned meetings between conference sessions. Everything is set up and we’re ready to go, comfortably ensconced in The…
Oh, snap!: Pics from The ConFab
Some pics from The ConFab 2012 setup: Getting the conference books ready to distribute (Luba and Karen), inside the book, various signs — sessions, sponsors, Solid State Technology — view down the hall, Sabrina at the conference table, The ConFab map.
