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Leading Memory Chip Manufacturer Purchases Multiple Veeco AP300 Lithography Systems

PLAINVIEW, New York, July 9, 2018 – Veeco Instruments Inc. (Nasdaq: VECO) today announced that one of the world’s leading memory chip manufacturers has ordered multiple AP300™ lithography systems to support the fast-growing demand for DRAM with copper (Cu) pillars. The company selected the Veeco tools for their versatility in...

Co-Design Comes to ECTC 2018: You Can Lead A Horse to Water…

Despite a valiant effort by the ECTC committee to integrate design topics into this year’s agenda, the number of empty seats spoke volumes: Including two plenary sessions on design-focused topics was one thing; getting packaging and process engineers to attend was quite another. While I attended IC Package Co-Design for...

2018 TSMC Technology Symposium: Listen – Analyze – Act

May 1st is a holiday in many countries, but not in the U.S. and not for TSMC. A very professional TSMC team and many of its Open Innovation partners demonstrated recent accomplishments to a gathering of more than 2000 attendees at the 2018 TSMC Technology Symposium at the Santa Clara...

EV Group and IBM Sign License Agreement on Laser Debonding Technology

EV Group (EVG), a leading supplier of wafer bonding and lithography equipment for the MEMS, nanotechnology and semiconductor markets, and IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that the companies agreed to sign a license agreement on laser debonding technology. EVG plans to integrate IBM’s patented Hybrid Laser Release process into EVG’s...

Rudolph JetStep S Lithography System Advances Panel-based Advanced Packaging

Wilmington, Mass. (May 23, 2017)—Rudolph Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: RTEC) announced today that it has received an order for its JetStep S Lithography System for fan-out panel-based advanced packaging processes. The system, which will ship in June 2017 to an outsourced assembly and test (OSAT) facility based in Asia, will be...

Will IoT be the Next Killer App for Semiconductors?

At the end of April, I attended the Internet of Things (IoT) Developers Conference at the Santa Clara Convention Center. Because our semiconductor industry is expecting that IoT applications will significantly contribute to revenue growth, I wanted to get the latest about: If, how, when, why and for which applications...

TechSearch International Analyzes High-Performance Package Trends

A variety of alternatives is challenging silicon’s role in advanced packaging interposers for high-performance package applications. The first applications using silicon interposers with through silicon vias (TSVs) were field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), followed by graphic processor units (GPUs). Though unit volumes have been small, the vast knowledge gained from...

Rudolph Receives Multi-System Order from Leading Memory Manufacturer for Advanced Memory Ramp

 Wilmington, Mass. (February 16, 2017)—Rudolph Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: RTEC) announced today that a leading memory manufacturer in Asia has placed orders totaling over $8 million USD for process control equipment to support the ramp of their latest high-performance stacked memory devices. The equipment spans front- and back-end applications. It includes MetaPULSE® metrology...

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TSMC’s OIP Symposium 2016

After a fairly long vacation it’s very hard to get back to work. That’s why I was really glad that this year’s OIP Symposium helped me – right after touring Europe for 3 weeks – to finding my groove again. Allow me to share some of my observations at and thoughts...