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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.

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.

Wet Copper Deposition Materials for ICs and Packages

TECHCET announces that the global market for wet metal deposition materials including electro-chemical deposition (ECD) and plating (ECP) chemistry blends in 2020 is forecast to be US$63 million.

Professors from Stanford, UC Berkeley to be Honored for Excellence in Semiconductor Research

The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) and the Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) today announced the winners of the 2020 SIA-SRC University Research Awards.

DRAM Price Erosion Expected Through the End of 2020

Price jump that typically coincides with the introduction of new smartphone models in 3Q and 4Q is not expected due to disrupted buying patterns and cautious discretionary spending.

Optoelectronics, Sensors/Actuators, Discretes Stabilize in Covid-19 Crisis

About eight months after the Covid-19 virus pandemic accelerated around the world, sales of optoelectronics, sensors and actuators, and discrete semiconductors have stabilized, and in some cases, revenues have begun showing signs of a slight recovery in the second half of 2020

Large-Area Flexible Organic Photodiodes Can Compete With Silicon Devices

The performance of flexible large-area organic photodiodes has advanced to the point that they can now offer advantages over conventional silicon photodiode technology, particularly for applications such as biomedical imaging and biometric monitoring that require detecting low levels of light across large areas.

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