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.

Yes, We CAN Preserve Personal Privacy in Voice-First Consumer Devices

A better balance between cloud and edge processing is a better balance between convenience and privacy, and that’s a win for everyone.

Epitaxy: An Epic Growth

Epitaxy growth equipment for More than Moore devices technology.

VLSI Design Optimization and Validation Process Is Like Painting the Forth Bridge

Some EDA tools have introduced an innovative approach that allows designers to generate design metadata one time for certain verification flows.

Understanding Cooling and Particulate Contamination Challenges for Next Generation ALE Technologies

Mixed-refrigerant Joule-Thomson refrigeration can provide the necessary wafer temperatures and cooling power with smaller footprint, better reliability and lower power consumption than alternative cooling technologies. Cryo-trapping can reduce particle generation by removing the water that mediates the particle formation process.

Building Patterns From The Bottom: A Complementary Approach to Lithography

With shrinking dimensions, the classical lithography-based top-down patterning processes are becoming extremely complex and expensive. Therefore, researchers worldwide are investigating alternative processes allowing to build patterns from the bottom. Two promising approaches are directed self-assembly (DSA) and area-selective deposition (ASD).

Deep Learning at the Extreme Edge: A Manifesto

With continuous voltage and frequency scaling, the logic is self-timed, adjusting core voltage and clock frequency automatically, ensuring no timing violation. This allows the chip to always run the most efficient way for a given workload.

The Chip Wars Get Real

There was a lot of big news in the semiconductor industry during the last week as the U.S., China and Taiwan face off in a chip war over Huawei.

U.S. Targets Huawei’s Chip Supply

The U.S. Department of Commerce announced plans to restrict Huawei’s ability to use U.S. technology and software to design and manufacture its semiconductors abroad.

TSMC to Build and Operate an Advanced Fab in the U.S.

TSMC announced its intention to build and operate an advanced semiconductor fab in Arizona.

Illinois RapidVent Emergency Ventilator Developed for COVID-19 patients

The Illinois RapidVent emergency ventilator was developed in less than a week, and preliminary tests show performance equivalent to commercial devices; additional tests ongoing