Pete Singer

Co-Founder / Editor-in-Chief

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Pete has over 40 years of publishing experience. He co-founded Semiconductor Digest and the Gold Flag Media company with publisher Kerry Hoffman in 2019. Previously, he spent over 25 years at Semiconductor International and 11 years at Solid State Technology.

No Security, No Safety

In a new webinar, Winbond’s Hung-Wei Chen provided an overview of today’s top cybersecurity threats and regulations, and detailed the company’s TrustME solutions for flash memory.

Semiconductor Manufacturing in the U.S.

In the middle of an ongoing pandemic and global trade war, the U.S. is looking to boost domestic semiconductor manufacturing capabilities.

Partially Hindered by the Pandemic, the MEMS Industry Could Emerge Stronger

Expect mixed effects in the 2020 MEMS market, followed by growth in the longer term.

Status of the Advanced Packaging Industry

Revolutionary changes are happening in the advanced semiconductor packaging industry.

Amid COVID-19 and Trade War, China Continues to Advance Its Semiconductor Memory Industry

Amid escalating trade tensions with the West, the process of building a self-sufficient semiconductor ecosystem in China has strongly accelerated. Chinese players are starting to threaten the market’s equilibrium and could trigger profound changes in the memory business.

A View on the Logic Technology Roadmap

While chipmakers are moving ahead with technology generations, maintaining the same timeline for scaling transistors in the front-end-of-line (FEOL), contacts and interconnects in the middle- (MOL) and back-end-of-line (BEOL) has become challenging.

It’s Time to Boost U.S. Manufacturing

There is a newfound interest in revitalizing semiconductor manufacturing in the U.S.

Going from Macro to Micro in Semiconductor Inspections

Macro-to-micro viewing capabilities of digital microscopes can help overcome common challenges in the inspection process.

Challenges to Replacing Hard-Disk Drives

Computational storage devices are the new must-have peripherals for intensive storage applications.

China Forecast to Represent 22% of the Foundry Market in 2020

Despite the Covid-19 shutdown of China’s economy earlier this year, China’s share of the pure-play foundry market is forecast to be 22% in 2020, 17 percentage points greater than it registered in 2010