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Back To Work: How Will the CHIPS and Science Act Impact the Semiconductor Industry?

Sep 07, 2022 · By Dean Freeman · 3D In Context

THE CHIPS and Science Act passed to great industry enthusiasm last month. Françoise wrote about the CEO Summit and some of the CEO’s thoughts on that celebratory day. But as I poorly paraphrase Aart De Geus, “Today we celebrate the success of this event (CHIPS) as co-collaborators, tomorrow it’s back...

SEMI Supports Sustainability Startup Initiative

Aug 17, 2022 · By Dean Freeman · 3D In Context

Sustainability has become one of the key focus points for the semiconductor industry. When the big customers/users of chips – Apple, Google, AWS, META, and Microsoft – started to look at how to manage scope 3 emissions, they mandated semiconductor companies to work to meet net zero by 2040 or...

Will Easing the Chip Shortage Impact New 200mm Fabs?

Aug 09, 2022 · By Dean Freeman · 3D In Context

Another highlight of SEMICON West centered around 200mm fabs. The 200mm industry has thrived on used equipment. As 200mm memory fabs closed, a significant amount of that equipment made its way to existing or emerging logic lines. Most of these lines process chips that have linewidths, or technology nodes at...

Simply Gobsmacked, The CHIPs Act Passes

Aug 03, 2022 · By Dean Freeman · 3D In Context

It has been a tumultuous month. At the start of July, the CHIPS Act appeared to be going into a summer recess. Pat Gelsinger was playing high-stakes poker with congress, and the chip and wafer fab equipment industry was still extremely optimistic going into SEMICON West. As we exit July...

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Are You Listening? 3D InCites Summer Podcast Wrap Up

Sep 15, 2022 · By Francoise von Trapp · Blogs

Are you listening to the 3D InCites podcast yet? We had a busy summer! Our listenership grew, and we achieved a significant milestone of over 5500 downloads since we first began our podcast journey just over a year ago. Not only that but we were excited to see we’re reaching...

3D InCites Members Attend Signing of the CHIPS and Science Act

Aug 18, 2022 · By Francoise von Trapp · Blogs

On Tuesday, August 9th, President Biden sat down at a table on the White House Lawn for the highly anticipated signing of the CHIPS and Science Act of 2022. With the stroke of his pen, President Biden released public investments including 52.7 billion appropriations for semiconductor incentives; a new 25%...

What does the Passing of the CHIPS and Science Act Mean for Advanced Packaging?

Jul 28, 2022 · By Francoise von Trapp · Blogs

I usually leave this sort of commentary to Phil Garrou and Dean Freeman. But after a year of debate and revisions, the CHIPS and Science Act (Formerly the CHIPS Act), has made it to President Biden’s desk, and who knows, by the time you read this, he may have signed...

SEMICON West 2022: Keynotes and Conversations

Jul 18, 2022 · By Francoise von Trapp · Blogs

Is it over already? SEMICON West 2022 flew by, true to form. My week was filled with keynotes and conversations with many movers and shakers in the semiconductor industry and beyond. Here are my initial observations and takeaways, with lots more to come in our upcoming podcast episodes. It’s a...

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Workforce Development Considerations in the Megachips Era

Sep 13, 2022 · By Bob Conner · Blogs

A recent Wall Street Journal article, The Microchip Era Is Giving Way to the Megachip Age, explains how the chip industry is transitioning from monolithically integrated chips to stacking chiplets to make megachips. In the U.S., DARPA is embarking on the Next Generation Microelectronic Manufacturing initiative focused on three-dimensional heterogeneous...

Chiplets and Sustainability

Sep 08, 2022 · By Julia Goldstein · Blogs

Advances in packaging can improve yield and reduce cost. Can they also reduce the environmental footprint of an electronic device? Let’s consider one example, the chiplet. Instead of large-monolithic CPUs with multiple functions integrated into one piece of silicon, the functions are divided between multiple smaller chiplets mounted on an...

The Road Towards Climate Neutrality from the Perspective of a German SME

Aug 30, 2022 · By Sophia Oldeide · Blogs

This year in Germany, we experienced a record-setting summer, and not in a good way. Unprecedented heatwaves were recorded, and droughts are hitting several parts of the world, creating further instability in an economy still recovering from a pandemic. These and other climate-related disruptions emphasize the urgent need to address...

R&D and Smart Technology Leading the Way in China

Aug 25, 2022 · By Kiterocket · Blogs

Despite China reacting to the United States CHIPS and Science Act, the country continues to move forward with R&D and smart technology projects launched in August, continuing to be focused on R&D and new energy. The 10GW photovoltaic n-type cell production project based in the Economic and Technological Development Zone...

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IFTLE 533: Fan-out, Chips-Last High-Density Packaging at Unimicron

Sep 14, 2022 · By Phil Garrou · Blogs

Every now and then you run across a paper or presentation, and you say to yourself, “This clearly explains this or that technology…this is an important paper”. When I do that, I try to share them with you on IFTLE. In this case, I’m talking about the paper “2.3D Hybrid...

IFTLE 532: Fraunhofer IZM Examines Panel Level Processing Technology Limits

Sep 06, 2022 · By Phil Garrou · Blogs

Continuing our look at presentations at the 2022 ECTC, who better to examine the question “Panel Level Packaging – Where are the Technology Limits?” than Tanja Braun and the group at IZM Fraunhofer who have become experts in this processing area over the last several years? Although they do not...

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IFTLE 531: CHIPS and Science Act; TSMC Phoenix; Details on Apple M1

Aug 29, 2022 · By Phil Garrou · Blogs

CHIPS and Science Act The CHIPS and Science Act will provide $54.2B in funding for the semiconductor and wireless industry, including $52 billion in grants and incentives specifically for the American semiconductor industry. In addition, a 25% investment tax credit for the manufacture of semiconductors and tools to create semiconductors...

IFTLE 530: Do Chiplets Increase Security Risks? Sony and Samsung Battle for Leadership in CIS

Aug 23, 2022 · By Phil Garrou · Blogs

For those of you that haven’t seen it yet, a recent July 7th post by Ed Sperling is must read for anyone interested in the migration to chiplets. “Security Risks Widen with Commercial Chiplets”. He pulls together a number of inciteful comments from industry security experts on the impact of...

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Is Diversity and Inclusion the Secret to Your Company’s Success?

Feb 10, 2022 · By Hemant Taneja · Blogs

Until recently, many companies considered diversity a “nice to have.” Companies supported diversity and inclusion because they wanted to be good citizens because it was the right thing to do, and – for some, cynically – because it was good PR. But now research is proving the business case for...

Smartphone Addiction is Not a Gender-Specific Problem

Jul 26, 2021 · By Francoise von Trapp · Blogs

An open letter to David Benjamin, EE Times Dear David, You really don’t get it. Why? Why, when more women are joining the microelectronics industry in technical and non-technical roles, would you resort to female stereotypes from the 1950s as a vehicle to discuss such an important topic as global...

2021 3D InCites DEI Fundraiser a Success; Thank You Sponsors

Mar 25, 2021 · By Trine Pierik · SemiSisters

We took our annual mural project online this year! Illustrator Ronna Encarnacion created this original watercolor to reflect the importance of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in creating sustainability. Proceeds from the project will be used to seed the 3D InCites DEI Fund to support technology businesses owned by women and...

How is COVID 19 Impacting the Semiconductor Industry’s Diversity and Inclusion Efforts?

Aug 20, 2020 · By Francoise von Trapp · Blogs

A headline on CNN Business caught my eye last night: Working mothers are quitting to take care of their kids, and the US job market may never be the same. I started reading and went down a rabbit hole of related articles that revealed a few things: Unlike the recession...

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