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What I Learned At ECTC 2022
I’ve started so many event blog posts since the return of live events with the phrase – it’s good to...
Community Reflections: From Chaos to Opportunity
ASE, Inc. CEO, Dr. Tien Wu, has often referred to Sun Tzu’s legendary quote when describing semiconductor market volatility, “In...
Update on the Heterogenous Roadmap and the CHIPs Act
Years ago, when I was just a young pup in the industry, my manager asked me to attend a meeting...
The Future is Heterogeneous Integration
2020 proved to us that our world is wholly unpredictable. As the year began with optimism for a new decade... EDA and the Heterogeneous Integration Roadmap
In Austria, where I grew up, homes get passed on from generation to generation. Like many Austrians, I had a...
Is The HIR the Best Path to Increased Revenues?
The 3rd Annual Heterogeneous Integration Roadmap (HIR) Symposium confirms it: Heterogeneous Integration is the best way for the semiconductor industry...
IFTLE 435: The Heterogeneous Integration Roadmap (HIR)
Before we start this week’s blog, let me take the opportunity to wish all IFTLE readers a Merry Christmas and...
SEMI ASMC 2019: Heterogeneous Integration Enters the Mix
“It’s relatively easy to build a fancy new transistor in the lab, but in order to replace what we’re doing...
Are you Team 3D, 2.5D or 2DS/2DO?
The Heterogenous Integration Roadmap Committee wants to create a new nomenclature that does away with 2.5D. Instead, the industry will...
Taking Stock and Redefining the Heterogeneous Integration Roadmap at IMAPS DPC 2018
As it has for the past 14 years, the global microelectronics industry gathered at Wekopa Resort and Conference Center in...
Mission Impossible? Not for SEMI!
San Francisco’s Moscone Center (above), the traditional home of SEMICON West trade shows, is undergoing major reconstruction work. Looking at...
SEMICON West 2017: The Semiconductor Industry at a Young 50
The semiconductor industry is acting quite young for its age. And that’s just not me saying it; over and over...
What the Heterogeneous Integration Technology Roadmap Will Mean for 2017
While it seems that the semiconductor industry has suddenly embraced heterogeneous integration as the next revolutionary innovation to further the...
MEPTEC Roadmap 2016: Best Time in History to be in the Packaging Business
With nary a farewell glance in the rearview mirror at the terrain successfully covered over the decades during which we...
The New Heterogeneous Integration Roadmap: Seeing Beyond the Lamp Post
If you, like me, have been wondering about when and where it was you last saw an International Technology Roadmap...