SEMICON West Navigates Semiconductor Industry Changes
Nov 18, 2025 · By Dean Freeman · 3D In Context, Blogs
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Sustainability and Semiconductors at SEMICON WEST 2024
SEMI has increasingly focused on sustainability and semiconductors in the past three years, growing from a few keynote talks at...
AI and VLSI
What do oxide transistors, ferroelectrics, 2-dimensional channel layers, CFETS, Advanced packaging, AI, and tradewinds have in common? They were all...
Sustainability is Busting Out all Over!
When prepping for this month’s sustainability blog, the song, June is Busting Out All Over, from Rogers and Hammerstein’s Carousel,...
Semiconductor Industry Collaboration is the Key
40 years ago in 1984, the semiconductor industry was in one of its many transitions. The USA had lost its...
Will AI be Powered by Renewables? Maybe, But Not for Long
Earth Day has passed. Companies’ ESP/social responsibility reports are beginning to appear and they have been commenting on their progress...
How Advanced Lithography Evolution Will Impact 3D Packaging
In 1987, the lithography team I worked with returned from SPIE and presented our findings from the conference. Ultra-violet (UV)...
SEMI Kicks off Year Three of the SCC and Startups for Sustainability
It is popular for mainstream media to publicize different industry’s energy consumption and environmental habits. The semiconductor industry is not...
Taking Stock of Global Investments in Semiconductor Manufacturing
The geopolitical race to take the lead in semiconductors is heating up as global investments in semiconductor manufacturing take hold....
Electronics Recycling: There’s Gold in Those Old Electronic Gadgets!
When you replace your PC with an AI-enabled one, will you make sure your old device goes into an electronics...
Will the Intel Foundry Model Succeed?
The foundry world has been big news in the past few weeks. TSMC started up the Kumamoto Fab, Japan’s leading-edge...
What the Ski and Semiconductor Industries Have in Common
From November to April for the past seven years, I have spent a considerable amount of time on the snow...
No Slow Down In Sight for Semiconductor Growth in China
At ISS 2024, SEMI reported that fab equipment sales look to be flat in 2024 — right around $100 billion....
The Semiconductor Cycle: Looking Into the Future
“It ain’t over till it’s over.” is a frequently used Yogi Berra saying. The current semiconductor cycle has that feeling....
ESG Resolutions
Happy 2024! For many the start of the New Year includes resolutions or goals to try to accomplish throughout the...
IEDM 2023: The Trillion Transistor Dilemma
It all depends upon who you talk to at IEDM 2023. The semiconductor chip industry is either moving into a...
Semiconductor Sustainability at IEDM 2023
The Semiconductor industry has been ramping up its focus on sustainability for the past three to four years. Strong sustainability...
Much Ado About Fabs in China
China’s semiconductor industry has been in the news a great deal over the past year. 7nm technology advancements, sanctions, new...
Getting Every Semiconductor Company to Net Zero
My sustainability news feed has been filled with articles regarding COP 28, and news of successes and failures regarding the...
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...
