July 9, 2013, Semicon West, San Francisco—Laurent Malier from Leti offered a view of the next decade and the drivers for technology. Semiconductors will be more important in the future as everything will have some electronics embedded within. The big drivers will be in the areas of enegy, health and well being, mobility and communications,…
July 8, 2013, Semicon West, San Francisco—Dan Tracy from SEMI presented an overview of the industry with a focus on equipment and materials. The market numbers indicate an ongoing recovery after a slow period in the past two years. World wide, the industry has had a relatively flat income for the last two years, with…
July 8, 2013, IMEC Technology Forum, San Francisco—Martin Anstice from Lam Research talked about inflection challenges and value creation opportunities from collaboration. The pace and costs of change in the semiconductor industry now make it an imperative for companies to work together. Value in this industry comes from the semiconductors, and not from the equipment….
July 8, 2013, IMEC Technology Forum, San Francisco—Luc van den Hove from IMEC described the overriding philosophies and some of the results of their research in his opening talk at the forum. The general concept for their work is the sum of minds. IMEC tries to bring together a wide range of diverse and complementary…
May 28, 2013, IEEE Consumer Electronics Society, Mountain View, CA—The Santa Clara section of the CE Society opened with a pitch from Tom Coughlin on getting more involvement in the future directions committee. They are working on a number of areas to try to determine realistic future directions for the various technologies. Erick Wolf from…
December 10, 2012, International Electron Devices Meeting, San Francisco—Luc van den Hove from IMEC described the changes in device technologies that will be the core of a sustainable society. Electronics has and will continue to affect all aspects of living, and the ability to provide greater performance at ever lower costs will drive societal evolution….
December 10, 2012, International Electron Devices Meeting, San Francisco—Seonki Kim from Samsung presented a view of the current state of the art and the future prospective for the display industry. Changes will take place at both the macro and micro levels for all displays. Displays have evolved from analog CRTs by adding color, and these…
December 10, 2012, International Electron Devices Meeting, San Francisco—John Rogers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign described the bifurcating directions of bio-electronics. The field is splitting into integrating biological functions with electronics, and transient electronics. The electronics revolution has transformed dimensions for biological interfaces from room-sized, to hand-held, and now towards embedded and integrated…
December 6, 2012, Printed Electronics USA, Santa Clara, CA—Yong Tack Hong from Seoul National University presented results of their work in ink printed stretchable electronics for displays and sensors. This work is based on silver doped carbon nana-tubes and other thin films for the OTFTs on stretchable substrates. They are working on various printing technologies…
December 6, 2012, Printed Electronics USA, Santa Clara, CA—Toshihide Kamata from the National Institute of Advanced Science and Technology updated the efforts on printed electronics in Japan. The organization is a research consortium of the big companies involved in printing, chemicals, and electronics. The focus is on large-area devices, using an ink-based, low-temperature process. Some…