SEMI North America Advisory Board Welcomes New Members From ASML and Breker Verification Systems

SEMI today announced the election of two new members to the SEMI North America Advisory Board (NAAB): Maheen Hamid, co-founder, CFO and COO of Breker Verification Systems, and Michael Lercel, Senior Director of Global Strategic Marketing at ASML.

Applied Materials Convenes Leaders from Industry, Academia and Government at “Summit to Advance Semiconductor Leadership”

Applied Materials, Inc. today hosted the Summit to Advance Semiconductor Leadership – an event focused on exploring solutions for overcoming key challenges facing the semiconductor industry on its path to becoming a $1 trillion market over the next decade.

NVIDIA Collaborates With Microsoft to Accelerate Enterprise-Ready Generative AI

NVIDIA today announced that it is integrating its NVIDIA AI Enterprise software into Microsoft’s Azure Machine Learning to help enterprises accelerate their AI initiatives.

Global Semiconductor Packaging Materials Market to Near $30 Billion by 2027

Powered by strong demand for new electronics innovations, the global semiconductor packaging materials market is expected to reach US$29.8 billion by 2027, a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 2.7% from the US$26.1 billion in revenue it logged in 2022.

Imec First to Demonstrate Conductor Films on 300mm Wafers with Lower Resistivity than Cu and Ru

This week, at the 2023 IEEE International Interconnect Technology Conference (2023 IEEE IITC), imec provides the first experimental evidence that the resistivity of a thin conductor film on a 300mm Si wafer can be lower than that of Cu and Ru, which are currently used in interconnect metallization schemes.

XlynX Crosslinker Enables Ultra-Stable Perovskite Solar Cells

The past decade has seen remarkable progress in the field of perovskite solar cells (PSCs), a next-generation technology that offers a lower cost and easier to manufacture alternative to conventional silicon solar cells.

SEMICON Southeast Asia 2023 Opens Tomorrow with Chip Industry Resilience and Growth in Focus

SEMICON Southeast Asia opens tomorrow with critical semiconductor industry topics including supply chain resilience, sustainability, Smart Manufacturing, Smart Mobility, Smart MedTech, and workforce development in focus.

NY CREATES Announces New International Partnership

The New York Center for Research, Economic Advancement, Science, Technology and Engineering (NY CREATES) and the Korea Institute of Advancement of Technology (KIAT) recently signed a Joint Declaration to promote collaboration and partnership between the two organizations in the field of technological innovation, with a primary focus on semiconductors.

Purdue Signs Landmark U.S.-Japan Agreement in Semiconductors at G7 Summit

On Sunday (May 21) in Hiroshima, Japan, Purdue President Mung Chiang signed another landmark international agreement, partnering with Micron, Tokyo Electron and other educational institutions in the United States and Japan to establish the “UPWARDS Network” for workforce advancement and research and development in semiconductors.

Applied Materials Launches Multibillion-Dollar R&D Platform

Applied Materials, Inc. today announced a landmark investment to build the world’s largest and most advanced facility for collaborative semiconductor process technology and manufacturing equipment research and development (R&D).