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Sustainability 101: What Makes A Sustainability Leader?

2024 marks the fourth year I will serve on the 3D InCites Sustainability Award judging panel. We want to recognize companies in our industry that are sustainability leaders. (In this blog post, when I say “sustainability leader” I’m referring to a company, not an individual within it.) The more often...

Sustainability 101: What Good Are Awards?

Awards and rewards can motivate behavior. An obvious example is online gaming, where players earn stars, points, or access to special features. The reward system is geared toward encouraging people to keep playing the game. When I complete a New York Times crossword puzzle without hints on the day it...

Takeaways from the SEMICON West Sustainability Summit

One of my go-to statements when it comes to sustainability comes from a famous frog, “It’s not easy being green”. The Sustainability Summit at SEMICON west 2022 discussed and demonstrated some of the challenges the industrial world is facing to meet the challenges of reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and...

Environmental Sustainability – Semiconductor Industry Challenges

In March, I was invited to be part of the panel; at SEMI’s Silicon Valley Virtual Forum: “Environmental Sustainability – Semiconductor Industry Challenges”.  SEMI is working on taking a greater role for its members in helping to define what sustainability means, and how to address it. In most cases, both...

Sustainability Report Card: How Does Your Company Measure Up?

We are in year three of a global pandemic that has changed our perspective on health, the economy, and inequality. Attitudes toward environmental sustainability have also shifted in the past two years. We experienced cleaner air resulting from just a few months of shutdowns in manufacturing and transportation, followed by...

Semiconductor Sustainability From the Venture Capital Perspective

The sustainability wave in the tech space is gaining momentum. Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Microsoft have all set very aggressive sustainability targets (Figure 1). Most of these companies are shooting for net-zero emissions by 2030, or at least have Scope 1 and 2 emissions at zero at that time....

ESiPAT-TC Team Prepping for Successful In-Person Event

Aiming at facilitating mutual engagement, the SEMI Packaging Technology Seminar will foster collaboration among semiconductor packaging, assembly, test manufacturing, and design experts, to collectively strengthen the semiconductor back-end industry in Europe. This is a great opportunity to meet with members of the SEMI integrated Packaging, Assembly and Test Technology Community (SiPAT-TC), pioneered by the European chapter (ESiPAT-TC) established in 2016....

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...

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Fifty Shades of Fan-out Discussed at ECTC 2017

The fan-out conversation that started at IMAPS DPC 2017 in March continued this week at the annual Electronics Components Technology Conference (ECTC), which took place in Orlando at the Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin Resort. The buzz started during the Tuesday evening plenary session, where panelists Douglas Yu, TSMC,...

3D InCites Member Advisory Board

Dr. Phil Garrou, Microelectronic Consultants of NC, USA Dr. Phil Garrou is a subject matter expert for DARPA and runs his consulting company Microelectronic Consultants of NC in the RTP NC area. He retired from Dow Chemical in 2004 as Global Director of Technology for their Advanced  Electronic Materials business...