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A long-time evangelist of 3D integration technologies, Herb Reiter puts more than 20 years of experiences in technical and business roles at semiconductor and EDA companies to work, providing a holistic perspective and insight on how to bring 3D integration to the masses.

AI-Enabled PCs

Will AI-Enabled PCs Be the Next Inflection Point?

September and October are busy months in the technology world, as companies have their annual analyst day, where they show off and introduce new technology. Shortly after the analyst day comes earnings season. This timing gives CEOs the opportunity to use the old adage: Tell them, tell them again, and...

tracking and reporting sustainability

Tracking and Reporting Sustainability: A Stake in the Sand

As sustainability matures, the fall of the year seems to be when there is a significant focus on sustainability, culminating in the Conference of the Party (COP) meetings in late November. Companies publish their ESG reports if they have done so earlier in the year. Ratings companies release their rankings,...

The CHIPS Act – Here Comes the Money

It’s been a busy time on the semiconductor industry front: SEMICON Taiwan; Intel’s Innovation Day; glass interposers making it to center stage; TSMC’s Open Innovation Platform with the announcement of the 3Dblox 2.0; and the first CHIPS Act payout by the Department of Defense (DoD) of $238 million to universities....

Semiconductor Greenhouse Gas

Solving Semiconductor Greenhouse Gas Chemistry Challenges

A significant amount of the focus on sustainability in the semiconductor space is on Scope 2 and Scope 3 emission. We’re either working to reduce the energy required to run the factories that produce semiconductors and semiconductor manufacturing equipment, or the greenhouse gases (GHG) produced once the semiconductors or equipment...

Farms in Berkeley or Fabs in India

If you spent any time listening to the radio in Silicon Valley, prior to 1998, you probably heard a commercial about farms in Berkeley. There were multiple dairies in the San Francisco Bay Area until the land became so valuable that the farms were sold to make way for the...

ESG

SEMI’s 2023 S3 Forum Shows Industry Collaboration

Sustainability and collaboration are two keywords that are being used in the semiconductor industry. On the chip and equipment development side, collaboration means perhaps more open and active co-opetition. But on the sustainability side of the semiconductor world, active collaboration started at a grassroots level. As the semiconductor and semiconductor...

The World Goes Round, and So Does the Semiconductor Industry

The world’s understanding of the semiconductor industry has gone from — What is a semiconductor? — to front-page news, as the chip shortages that happened because of the pandemic made the semiconductor industry finally newsworthy in the eyes of the non-technical press. At the height of the shortage, The Wall...

Collaboration in Sustainability is the Word

SEMI has fully embraced sustainability.  Starting slow pre-COVID, they have ramped up and become a significant force in the industry. The organization spearheaded the Semiconductor Climate Consortia, of which 84 members are working cooperatively to encourage collaboration in sustainability and move the industry towards net zero somewhere between 2030 and...

SEMICON West 2023

Building a Path Forward at SEMICON West 2023

When I started writing this blog post, SEMICON West 2023 was to be a historic event — the last one held in July in San Francisco. However, it turns out that the 2024 show will be held in San Francisco in July; and again in subsequent alternating even years (2026,...

The Other Side of TSMC’s Chip In Story

Paul Harvey, a news radio personality was famous for his trademark “the other side of the story”. At the close of his newscast each day, he would highlight a news story, or personality, and tell the other side of the story; the one that most of the public was not...