Electronics Manufacturing Blogs

Solid State Technology’s bloggers provide an insider’s point-of-view for electronic manufacturing such as semiconductor wafer fab, micro electromechanical systems (MEMS) manufacturing, and advanced packaging and test product announcements, industry tradeshows, process advances, and technologies.

Insights From Leading Edge

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Dr. Phil Garrou gives his insight into leading edge developments in 3-D integration and advanced packaging, reporting the latest technical goings on from conferences, conversations, and more.

IFTLE 147 IME Updates 2.5D; Qualcomm Updates 2.5 / 3DIC at ICEP

Mon May 13 10:16:00 CDT 2013
IME Updates Interposer ResearchIn the latest issue of Future Fab Int Singapores IME updates their 2.5D through-silicon interposer (TSI) technology development [link]GQ Lo, deputy Director Director of Research, and his 3D group point out that "3D I... Read More >>

IFTLE 146 TSMC Apple Rumors; Gartner OSAT Mkt Numbers; Novati

Sat May 04 12:01:00 CDT 2013
More Taiwan rumors on TSMC / Apple relationship Digitimes reports that TSMC will get  100% of the application processor orders for 2014 model iPhone [link] Digitimes further reports that  "in order to satisfy the huge demand fr... Read More >>

IFTLE 145 GPU Roadmap, IEEE 3DIC back in SF; ConFab 2013 Pkging

Sun Apr 28 15:23:00 CDT 2013
NVIDIA has publically updated their roadmap with the announcement of the GPU family that will follow 2014’s Maxwell family. That new family is Volta which will use stacked DRAM, which will be connected to the GPU with TSV.NVIDIA is targeting... Read More >>

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Chipworks

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DICK JAMES is a 40-year veteran of the semiconductor industry and the senior technology analyst for Chipworks, an Ottawa, Canada-based specialty reverse engineering company. Chipworks analyses a broad range of devices, giving Dick a unique overview of what technologies make it into the real world of semiconductor production.

Intel Foundries MEMS for Fuel Cell Start-up Nectar

Wed Jan 30 14:40:00 CST 2013
In the last couple of years there have been announcements that Intel will be acting as a foundry for FPGA company Achronix, PLD maker Tabula and programmable network processor provider Netronome, as well as much speculation about making chips for Apple. All these reports refer to using Intel&rsqu... Read More >>

IBM surprises with 22nm details at IEDM

Wed Dec 12 04:00:00 CST 2012
Monday afternoon at the 2012 IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting, IBM discussed their 22nm SOI high-performance technology [1], aimed at servers and high-end SoC products. To an extent, this is an extension of the 32nm process, using epitaxial SiGe for the PMOS channels and stress, and du... Read More >>

Intel details 22nm trigate SoC process at IEDM

Tue Dec 11 12:23:00 CST 2012
After launching their 22nm tri-gate high-performance logic product back in the spring, Intel have been promising to show off their SoC derivative, and yesterday was the day at the 2012 IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting. [1]As you can see from Table 1, we now have six transistor options;... Read More >>

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Pete's Posts Blog

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Pete's Posts covers topics germane to the electronics and solar industries, including semiconductor and photovoltaic solar cell manufacturing, advanced packaging, nanotechnology, MEMS and circuit board assembly.

Tackling Design for Yield Questions at DAC

Wed May 22 15:39:00 CDT 2013
Process variations are unavoidable, but how can chip designers plan for them in their designs to obtain optimal yield and device performance? That’s one of the focal points of a pavilion panel at the upcoming Design Automation Conference (DAC), to be held June 2-6 in Austin, TX. Titled "Le... Read More >>

Join The ConFab discussion

Tue Feb 26 11:27:00 CST 2013
The ConFab is Solid State Technology's annual conference and networking event. This year, it will be held June 23-26 at The Encore at The Wynn in Las Vegas. We recently started a LinkedIn group, where we will inform members of new activities, and keep the discussion going on topics related to sem... Read More >>

Questions and answers on FD-SOI

Fri Jan 04 14:56:00 CST 2013
A month or so ago, we implemented (without much fanfare) the ability to comment and rank articles on this site, and more easily use social media tools. I’d like to call your attention to one interesting exchange, and also invite you to start posting comments of your own. In mid-December, we... Read More >>

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MEMS Industry Group Blog

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Karen Lightman is managing director of MEMS Industry Group, the trade association advancing MEMS across global markets.

Who's Driving the MEMS Evolution Revolution Now? (Part 3 of 3)

Mon May 13 08:04:00 CDT 2013
Who’s Driving the MEMS Evolution Revolution Now? (Part 3 of 3)It is my pleasure to present the conclusion of the guest blog trilogy on the MEMS Evolution Revolution, written by my colleague, and long-time MEMS industry insider, Howard Wisniowski.  So far in this series, Howard ... Read More >>

Who’s Driving the MEMS Evolution Revolution? (Part 2 of 3)

Mon May 06 08:07:00 CDT 2013
I am pleased to bring you the second part of a three part series on the MEMS Evolution Revolution, written by my colleague, and long-time MEMS industry insider, Howard Wisniowski.  So far in this series, Howard has taken us with him to "visit" member company  Qualtré, and taug... Read More >>

Who's Driving The MEMS Evolution Revolution - Part 1 of 3

Thu Apr 25 13:35:00 CDT 2013
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EUVL Focus

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Dr. Vivek Bakshi blogs about EUV Lithography (EUVL) and related topics of interest. He has edited two books on EUVL and is an internationally recognized expert on EUV Source Technology and EUV Lithography. He consults, writes, teaches and organizes EUVL related workshops.

2013 International Workshop on EUVL: Maui, Hawaii, June 10-14, 2013

Mon Mar 11 08:54:00 CDT 2013
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Bring me the rhinoceros: A Review of the 2013 SPIE Advanced Lithography EUVL Conference

Mon Mar 04 08:57:00 CST 2013
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Further comments on physics and engineering of EUV sources

Tue Feb 12 08:46:00 CST 2013
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