Global supply-chains are being disrupted by the U.S./China trade wars, driving increased awareness of the strategic importance of rare-earth elements (REE).
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CEO Panel Tackles the Future of Moore’s Law Question
On Tuesday morning, Applied Materials hosted a CEO panel discussion with Aart de Geus, PhD, Chairman and co-Chief Executive Officer, Synopsys; Victor Peng, President and CEO, Xilinx; Lisa Su, PhD, President and CEO, AMD; Sanjay Mehrotra, President and CEO, Micron; and Gary Dickerson, President and CEO, Applied Materials. John Markoff, author and former technology writer with The New York Times acted as moderator.
SEMI Announces Election and Re-Election of Board Members
SEMI today announced at SEMICON West 2019 the election of Kazuo Ushida, Chairman of the Board, Representative Director, Nikon Corporation, as a new member of the SEMI International Board.
SEMI 2019 Mid-Year Total Equipment Forecast – 2019 Market Reset With 2020 Recovery
Global sales of semiconductor manufacturing equipment by original equipment manufacturers are projected to drop 18.4 percent to $52.7 billion in 2019 from last year’s historic high of $64.5 billion.
SEMICON West 2019 Opens with Smart Technologies, Workforce Development, Industry Opportunities in Spotlight
Smart technologies take center stage today as SEMICON West, the flagship U.S. event for connecting the electronics manufacturing and design supply chain, opens for three days of insights into leading technologies and applications that will power future industry expansion.
Waymo Wins SEMI Award at SEMICON West for Groundbreaking Self-Driving Technology
Waymo, a self-driving technology company with a mission to make it safe and easy for people and things to move around, has won the 2019 SEMI Americas Award.
SEMICON West 2019 Opens with Smart Technologies, Workforce Development, Industry Opportunities in Spotlight
Smart technologies take center stage today as SEMICON West, the flagship U.S. event for connecting the electronics manufacturing and design supply chain, opens for three days of insights into leading technologies and applications that will power future industry expansion.
Rare, All-Electric Chinese SUV and Newest Chevy Autonomous Test Vehicle to be Previewed This Week
China’s Xpeng Motors will display and dissect an automotive unicorn – a rare, all-electric sports utility vehicle – at SEMICON West this week.
Can Silicon Technology Help Transform Healthcare?
The semiconductor industry has delivered breakthrough innovations in computer pro- cessing power and miniaturization over the last 70 years. Could it deliver similar results in the field of healthcare? That was the question addressed by Paru Deshpande, VP Life Sciences & Imaging at imec during a talk on Monday during imec’s International Technology Forum at the Grand Hyatt in San Francisco.
Advanced Packaging: A Wonderful World
The semiconductor industry is at a turning point. The slowdown in CMOS scaling, coupled with escalating costs, has prompted the industry to rely on IC packaging to extend the benefits of the More-than-Moore era. Thus, advanced packaging has entered its most successful period, boosted by widespread needs for better integration; the slowdown of Moore’s law; and megatrends in transportation, 5G, consumer, memory & computing, IoT (and IIoT ), AI , and HPC.
