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.
If a Tree Falls in the Forest, Does it Produce Carbon Dioxide?
While working with a committee on evaluating multiple microelectronics companies for their efforts on sustainability an interesting question arose. Is a company being sustainable if it switches to renewables, but don’t reduce their energy footprint? In an industry where the semiconductor unit growth rate runs about 10% — TSMC builds...
Another Microelectronics Crisis? The Automotive Chip Shortage and Supply Chains
My, what a fix the microelectronics industry has gotten itself into! Three crises happening all at the same time: One threatening the automotive industry, one our electronics supply chain, and the third the United States’ ability to remain competitive in the semiconductor space. There has been a bit written on...
Holy San Francisco Batman, SEMICON West 2021 will be held in December!
This past week SEMI announced that SEMICON West 2o21 will be a hybrid affair with both a live conference and virtual views possible. The show will be held December 7-9, 2021. The usual July show will be canceled this year, but according to Dave Anderson President of SEMI America, will...
Sustainability: We Will Always Have Paris
On a trip home from Dresden, Germany, my plane was delayed by fog. A fellow analyst and I just missed our connection to San Francisco in Munich. Lufthansa was very accommodating and shipped us to Paris where we spent the night, and the next day caught our respective flights to...
2020 Hindsight and 2021 Insight: Edge Computing, 5G, Trade Wars and COVID-19
2020 was a roller coaster of a year from both a forecasting perspective and trying to keep up with shipments. At SEMI’s 2020 ISS in January, most pundits had a slightly positive outlook for the year. IHS was forecasting 5.5% growth. IC Insights was in a similar range forecasting 8%...
News Analysis: What’s Really Going on Inside Intel?
Intel has been in the news for the first weeks of 2021. While this is not unusual due to CES and the associated announcements of new processors for the latest and greatest consumer products, this year has been a bit different. There have been multiple storylines throughout 2020 rolling over...
The Importance of Sustainability in Semiconductor Manufacturing
Sustainability is one of today’s hottest topics in the news, and how to improve sustainability efforts is discussed at companies nearly on a daily basis. It seems only logical for 3D InCites to dedicate a blog to the topic of sustainability, as the semiconductor takes a more active stance, and...
EDPS 2020: An Inside Look at the Manufacturing-centric Presentations
Like many other industry conferences, the Electronic Design Process Symposium (EDPS 2020) had to go virtual. Not only did it keep our audience safe but allowed us to attract almost 200 registrants worldwide. Thanks to sponsorships from – ANSYS, Cadence, CEDA, Intel, Mentor – A Siemens Business, and Synopsys –...
IC Packaging Technologies Contribute to Smaller, Faster, Cheaper Electronic Systems with Longer Battery Life
During in-person and on-line meetings, I often discuss with friends the impressive progress our industry has made in the last 50 years following Moore’s Law. In 1981, when I joined the industry, on-die feature sizes were 3 microns (= 3000 nm). Today, some IC designers already rely on 3 nm...
Highlights from SEMI’s Smart MedTech Webinar Series
If you bought a new car recently, you must have noticed that it warns you if one of its functions needs your attention. It even alerts the factory if repairs or major adjustments are needed. Wouldn’t it be nice to have similar capabilities for our bodies that will call for...
