August 5, 2014, Emerging Display Technology Conference, San Jose, CA—Paul Semenza from NPD DisplaySearch, Bob Senior from Canatu, and Sri Srinivas from Raydiance discussed the emerging flexible and curved displays. The drivers for non-planar displays are greater flexibility in design and the conflicting demands for smaller and lighter versus larger screens. Semenza opened with a…
August 5, 2014, Emerging Display Technologies Conference, Santa Clara, CA—A panel evaluated the present and future capabilities for manufacturing high-performance displays. Paul Semenza from NPD DisplaySearch moderated, with panelists Akihiro Mochizuki from Light Polymers, Conor Madigan from Kateeva, Kevin Gahagan from Corning Glass, and SK Kim from Applied Materials. Semenza opened with market trends for…
March 3, 2014, US Flat Panel Display Connected Devices Conference, Santa Clara, CA—Paul Semenza from NPD DisplaySearch evaluated the panel makers in their balancing act for supply and demand. The ability to maintain profits coupled with the shifts in technologies drives capacity investments. TFT LCD capacity is becoming more stable, with demand slightly greater than…
October 2013 – As a change of pace from the traditional electronic systems, communications and software topics that are the subject of discussion at the Churchill Club, the event in early October focused on the changes and transition coming to the manufacturing world. The centerpoint of the discussion was predicated on the advent of 3D…
August 6, 2013, Emerging Display Technologies Conference, San Jose, CA-Charles Annis from NPD DisplaySearch presented the trends and markets for flat panel displays and their manufacture. Then evaluated some technologies and their potentials for growth and market share. Evaluation requires some metrics and identification of assumptions. The evaluation criteria included performance enhancements like higher light…
July 8, 2013, Semicon West, San Francisco—Karen Savala from SEMI talked about the US manufacturing renaissance and the drivers for continuation of this trend. The movement of manufacturing jobs to the US reverses a long-term trend that started in the last century. The main impetus for returning the functions to the US are the need…
March 18, 2013, NPD Flat-Panel Display Conference, San Jose, CA—A panel from industry looked at the issues in flat panel manufacturing. Paul Semenza from NPD DisplaySearch moderated the panel. Panelists were Si Kyoung Kim from Applied Materials, Robert O’Brien from Corning, Art Lathrop from 3M, and Darrell Benke from AMS. Applied is working on flat…
December 4, 2012, Churchill Club, Menlo Park, CA—Chris Anderson from 3D Robotics and former editor at Wired talked with Carl Bass from AutoDesk about 3-D printing and the new industrial revolution. This exchange was obviously a continuation of a long-standing and ongoing conversation between kindred souls. The first industrial revolution made it possible to manufacture…
March 14, 2012, Common Platform Technology Forum, Santa Clara, CA—Juga Jagamather from IBM moderated a panel focused on future semiconductor innovations. The panel members were Michael Liehr from College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering, Simon Segars from ARM, Subi Kargen from Global Foundries, TC Chen from IBM, and Dongwon Kim from Samsung. Low power? Chen…
December 8, 2011, Advanced Manufacturing Partnership, UCB, Berkeley, CA—A panel of government agencies discussed the issues for next-generation manufacturing. Arati Prabhakar from the US Department of Energy moderated the panel. Panel members included David Brinkley from the Department of Defense, Leo Chrisodoulou from the Department of Energy, Patrick Gallagher from the National Institute of Standards…