July 2014 – Both the Show floor and the Gartner forecasts showed new trends for the semiconductor manufacturing world. Once dominated by PCs and servers, the new drivers are NAND Flash, Mobile Processors and soon, Internet of Things devices. One of the major shifts is the trend that NAND Flash, driven the voracious needs of…
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…
July 8, 2013, Semicon West, San Francisco—Paul Farrar from the Global 450 Consortium described the efforts towards enabling the semiconductor industry to move to 450 mm wafers. The rationale for the change is to double the number of dice on a wafer without needing a new process node. The consortium has 5 key members, Intel,…