Technology and Trends

Focusing on applications that help assist movement in people with neuromotor disorders & aging muscle, Georgia Tech is developing a flexible system that uses sensory feedback through EMG to assess muscle and motor neuron health and augments strength through pneumatically actuated artificial muscle.

For business leaders implementing AI projects, these hurdles can lead to frustration with poor results, excessive costs and delays, and even actual harm and lawsuits in extreme cases. Addressing these challenges is critical for realizing the full potential of AI.

Massive capacity expansions will necessarily integrate advanced Industry 4.0 standards, practices and technology to achieve the highest possible operational efficiency and performance at the start of volume production.

Charles Shi, Principal, Senior Analyst, Needham & Company, LLC., recently offered an upbeat assessment of the electronic design automation (EDA), silicon intellectual property (IP) and services industries, or what SEMI refers to as the electronic system design (ESD) ecosystem.

Founded in 2004, S2C’s worldwide customer base uses its desktop and enterprise field programmable gate array (FPGA) prototyping tools to verify system on chip (SoC) and application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) designs will work as intended.

The global chip shortages together with the growing trends of electrification and digitalization have heightened awareness of the world’s reliance on semiconductors. Global management consultancy McKinsey & Company predicts a decade of growth leading to a $1 trillion semiconductor industry by 2030.

More than 2 years after the start of the pandemic, the US unemployment rate has dropped dramatically to 3.5% in July 2022, the lowest since February 2020. However, the participation rate has not recovered in one important segment of the workforce: women – particularly women in professional careers.

SEMI spoke with Kate Wilson, president of the semiconductor division at Edwards Vacuum, about how her personal dedication to sustainability and Edwards Vacuum’s commitment to green practices such as contributing to the semiconductor manufacturing industry’s reduction of carbon emissions.

ESD Alliance’s License Management and Anti-Piracy (LMA) Committee has worked with member companies Cadence, Siemens EDA and Synopsys to develop a protocol for use with software license management systems to provide strong protection against piracy by defining how servers can be uniquely identified.

Antoine Amade, VP of sales for the Microcontamination Control division at Entegris, discusses innovation opportunities for semiconductor technologies entering the automotive domain, views on design and process engineering, and collaboration between the semiconductor and automotive industries.