December 5, 2011, UCB, Advanced Manufacturing Partnership, Berkeley, CA—Krishna Mikkilineni from Honeywell and the local workshop leader noted that technology is increasingly difficult to transfer to high volume. Specific aspects of a technology become a tradable property within the world-wide product development and manufacturing areas. The workshops are important to validate the work of the…
December 5, 2011, UCB, Advanced Manufacturing Partnership, Berkeley, CA—Tom Kalil from the office of the President’s Office of Science and Technology described the governments’ efforts to advance domestic manufacturing capabilities. These next-generation processes will be both the necessary and also the enabling technologies for world-wide competitiveness. Advanced manufacturing is a broad topic, so the first…
July,2011, Semicon West, San Francisco—This year’s conference seemed to be much more upbeat than some of the previous shows. Attendance seemed to be up and more of the attendees wore shirtsleeves rather than suits, indicating more engineers than executives. Although the show is growing, it is still about half of its size at the peak…
November 16, 2010, Santa Clara, CA—the SFBA Nanotechnology Council symposium at the National Semiconductor conference center continued with Nick Kepler, vice president for corporate program management at Global Foundries discussed “Design and Technology Co-optimization: Collaborating to Overcome the Challenges of 28 nm and Beyond”. The key technology enablers are lithography, materials, and 3-D packaging. To…
September 1, 2010, Global Technology Conference San Jose, CA—Jean-Marc Chery, Executive Vice President and CTO of ST microelectronics described collaborative R&D model and global multi-fab manufacturing. The trends and challenges driving this model are increases in the logical components within designs and increases in speed of those designs. Today, companies need to understand where they…
Samsung shows off Tangjeong manufacturing complex by Tets Maniwa. In a market where 80 percent of the TVs are LCDs, Samsung has a 20 percent market share, the largest of all the vendors. To make all those TVs, Samsung’s Tanjeong, meaning a spring—a source of water—in Korean, manufacturing facility, one of their four sites,…