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.

Medtronic Shares Ventilator Design Specifications

Medtronic is publicly sharing the design specifications for the Puritan Bennett™ 560 (PB 560) to enable participants across industries to evaluate options for rapid ventilator manufacturing.

A Call for Ventilator Collaboration

Wouldn’t it be great if a SEMATECH-like group formed and provided a forum to enable manufacturers to collaborate to quickly get a world-best open source ventilator design approved and make it available to capable equipment manufacturers?

Medtronic Continuing to Increase Ventilator Production to Address COVID-19 Pandemic

Medtronic has increased production by more than 40 percent to date and is on track to more than double its capacity to manufacture and supply ventilators.

MIT-based Team Works on Rapid Deployment of Open-Source, Low-cost Ventilator

Clinical and design considerations will be published online; goal is to support rapid scale-up of device production to alleviate hospital shortages.

The Need for IoT Security At the Chip Level

A critical element to successful IoT security chips is public key infrastructure (PKI). All IoT devices with these chips require a strong identity, which will then be used for secure authentication.

A 300mm Platform for 2D-Material Based MOSFET Devices

2D materials, a family of materials that form two-dimensional crystals, promise to enable a broad range of semiconductor applications, such as selectors or back-end compatible transistors.

Coronavirus Concerns

The impact so far on the semiconductor industry has fortunately been minor.

David K. Lam to Unveil “Security Lithography” Advances to Thwart IC Counterfeiting at SPIE

Silicon Valley Hall of Famer and Founder of Lam Research to present unsurpassed levels of on-chip security enabled by Multicolumn E-beam Lithography (MEBL)

Solid State Technology Content Now Available

The content from Solid State Technology is now available through the Semiconductor Digest website.

Source Materials Enable the Evolution of the Ion-Implantation Process

Recent innovations in the field of new implant materials and innovative packaging are presented.