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Your Guide to Getting the Most out of Virtual ECTC 2020
One silver lining to COVID 19 for the microelectronics and advanced packaging communities is the ability to attend virtual ECTC 2020 free of charge. The elimination of travel expenses and making the...
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ECTC 2020 Keynote: Moore’s Law 2.0 Brought to You by HIT
If TSMC’s Doug Yu wrote a rap song, the title would be “HIT IT!” He’s been on a roll lately, evangelizing heterogeneous integration technology (HIT) as the new path going forward for the semiconductor...
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Social Distancing Spotlight: ERS Celebrates 50 Years of Thermal Solutions
Klemens Reitinger 50 years of providing specialized thermal solutions to the semiconductor industry is a significant accomplishment. It means your company is nearly as old as the industry itself and...
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3D System Integration – It Takes a Village
Actually, 3D System integration takes more than a village. It takes a global effort. As Virtual ECTC 2020 continues this month, I viewed the 3D Past, Present, and Future of 3D integration Plenary...
View Article3D InCites’ Mural Project Raised $4000 For IMAPS Foundation
If you’ve attended the IMAPS Device Packaging Conference over the past three years, you probably noticed a hand-drawn mural coming to life out on the veranda of the conference center, where the...
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Social Distancing Spotlight: How KLA Keeps Looking Ahead
Oreste Donzella, EVP at KLA Over the past few years, we’ve seen KLA evolving from its origins as a process control company focused on front-end solutions, to a more holistic organization that extends...
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COVID 19 and Black Lives Matter Change the Conversation for SEMICON West...
I had a dream last night that the SEMI team was a little upset with me because we were getting more visitors to our booth to watch the Zooming into SEMICON West interviews than they were getting for...
View ArticleCruising the Virtual SEMICON West Expo Hall
This morning at Virtual SEMICON West, I tried to attend a bunch of sessions and take notes so I could write about them. I really did. But I was experiencing information overload. And so, I decided to...
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How is COVID 19 Impacting the Semiconductor Industry’s Diversity and...
A headline on CNN Business caught my eye last night: Working mothers are quitting to take care of their kids, and the US job market may never be the same. I started reading and went down a rabbit hole...
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Are You Ready for an Onslaught of Virtual Events?
From basic webinars and Zoom happy hours (like our SemiSister Social Hour above), to full-blown technical conferences, trade shows, and even some hybrids, we’ve all been dabbling in virtual events for...
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Taiwan’s Semiconductor Business is Flourishing, and More from SEMICON Taiwan
It’s funny. While COVID 19 has restricted our lives in many ways, in others it’s made things more possible. Take SEMICON Taiwan – an event I have yet to attend in person. Because of COVID, this year...
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Snippets from Global SiP Summit at SEMICON Taiwan
I was halfway through my post about my day at Virtual SEMICON Taiwan, when I realized that to do the Global SiP Summit justice, meant it would need its very own post. The live version of the event...
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IMAPS International Symposium Offers a Glimpse of the Emerging Chiplet Ecosystem
I have finally been in this industry long enough to understand the cycle of discussion, scrutiny, call to arms, and discussions that emerging technologies go through on their way to adoption. What I...
View ArticleA Tribute to Herb Reiter, Upon his Retirement
Last week, Herb Reiter shared the sad news with me that it was time for him to listen to his wife and doctor and retire fully. The blog post about EDPS 2020 was his swansong. I’m not quite sure what we...
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The Softer Side of the IMAPS Symposium
Because IMAPS is a society, there is a strong community aspect to its events. It was good to see that captured at this year’s symposium. I really enjoyed attending the live versions of the Society...
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Virtual IWLPC Focuses on Panel Level Packaging
The 2020 International Wafer Level Packaging Conference (Virtual IWLPC) brought up the caboose of several weeks of virtual conferences that for me started with SEMICON Taiwan and included IMAPS...
View ArticleThe Semiconductor Industry’s Role in The Social Dilemma
Nothing vast enters the life of mortals without a curse – Sophocles, and the intro to Netflix, The Social Dilemma. I was really excited to see that Facebook’s Ron Ho was presenting a keynote at IMAPS...
View ArticleWhat I’m Thankful for This Thanksgiving
2020 has been a year for the books. Honestly, between the divisiveness in the USA caused by this year’s election shenanigans, the pandemic surging globally once again, and the disruption it’s caused in...
View ArticleHow the US Election Results Will Impact the Microelectronics Industry
With the US election FINALLY behind us, SEMI dedicated a recent installment of its free CEO Webinar Series to analyzing the impact of the US election on the microelectronics industry. The 90-minute...
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3D Packaging Breakthroughs, The GSA Awards, and How the Election Impacts the...
See that title? That was only part of how I spent last Thursday (December 3). My morning started with the monthly Global SemiSister Social Hour, segued right into Yole’s Webinar about 3D packaging...
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