Progress in Sustainability: Will it be Enough?
Mar 23, 2023 · By Dean Freeman · 3D In Context, Blogs
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Semiconductor Summer Conference Highlights: Hardware is Back Baby!
June and July have been busy months from a semiconductor conference perspective. VLSI, IITC, imec IFT America, CEA-Leti Innovation Days,...
Achieving Carbon Neutral Computing
According to the Wall Street Journal, (WSJ) the Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) is proposing that public companies be required...
As Semiconductor Spending Explodes,This Sure Feels Like a Super Cycle!
What a time to be in the semiconductor industry! If you’re a chip manufacturer you’re currently being blamed for the...
More Thoughts And Lessons Learned During My Career in Semiconductors
In the Spring 2020 issue of the MEPTEC Report, Herb Reiter briefly emerged from his recent retirement to pen an...
PART 2: Lessons 7-13 Learned from Fifty Years in the Semiconductor Industry – A Memoir
In the Spring 2020 issue of the MEPTEC Report, Herb Reiter briefly emerged from his recent retirement to pen an...
12 Lessons Learned from Fifty Years in the Semiconductor Industry – A Memoir
In the Spring 2020 issue of the MEPTEC Report, Herb Reiter briefly emerged from his recent retirement to pen an...
Everything is Always Greener on Earth Day
In my day job in the winter, I work in the ski industry, which is working very hard on sustainability...
A History and Analysis of Offshoring and Reshoring the US Semiconductor Industry
Since TSMC made its announcement late in 2020 that they were potentially building a semiconductor fab in Arizona, the reshoring...
Rare Earth Mining: The Dark Underside of Sustainability
Electric Vehicles (EVs) are increasing demand for Cobalt and Lithium: Two of the world’s rare earth minerals that come with...
A Semiconductor Shortage, a Capex Boom, and Onshoring
The semiconductor shortage written about last month seems to have expanded, or at least the panic behind it has...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...