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.
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,...
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...
More than a few years ago, somewhere around 28nm, my working group was discussing the potential demise of “Moore’s Law”. The industry and international technology roadmap committee were struggling with hi-k metal gates, strain, FinFETs, and of course how lithography could keep shrinking. The designing and manufacturing of a system...
There is no shortage of topics for someone writing about sustainability in May. April went from having Earth Day to being earth month, with sustainability press releases on nearly a daily basis. A significant number of companies use April and May as their release dates for company responsibility reports with...
The photo of my May calendar was a picture of a 1956 RAMAC computer with a whopping five megabytes of storage. The note on my calendar states that it could hold the entire phone book of Manhattan. The photo made me think of recent technology announcements, the announcements yet to...
As Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) and Signature Bank failures were happening, I read a Facebook post that commented, 1929 again? I then started thinking about the number of bank and industry crashes that have taken place over time, and closer to home during my career. 1929 sticks with many of...
There are multiple challenges facing the semiconductor industry as multiple new fabs launch across the United States. A key one is where they are going to get the semiconductor workforce needed to fully staff and operate them. One challenge is getting students excited again about designing and manufacturing semiconductors. A...
Progress in Sustainability has become one of SEMI’s key focus points in supporting its members. It was initiated with a series of keynotes at SEMICON West in 2019, followed by the formation of the SEMI Sustainability Initiative, to help bring focus to the Startups for Sustainability venture capital programs. And...
“Green shoots” refers to signs of economic recovery As a former analyst, I always found forecasting for the next year in December to be the biggest challenge, and perhaps the biggest miss of the year. You essentially are working without a net. Historically calendar Q4 revenue estimates by the equipment...
I was first exposed to chiplet technology in 2017 when Lisa Su presented the concept at the IEEE IEDM meeting. At that time, I thought it made sense, as the industry had been doing systems-in-package (SiP) for several years and chiplets seemed very much the next step in advanced computing....
