semiconductor industry

As monolithic scaling slows down, the semiconductor industry is increasingly relying on advanced packaging technologies to extend Moore’s law through heterogeneous integration. Higher on-package bandwidth, improved yield resiliency and the need to integrate diverse IP from multiple foundries are...

Spend any time with Ansys’ John Lee, Rich Goldman or Marc Swinnen and you’ll hear plenty of optimism about the semiconductor industry even though they tick off a long list of looming design challenges. The need for reliable and effective electronic systems, they emphasize, is great and runs through...

The state of Penang, nestled along the northwest coast of Peninsular Malaysia, needs no introduction in the global electronics manufacturing sector. Despite its diminutive stature with just over 1,000 square kilometers of land area and a 1.8 million-strong population, Penang commanded an estimated...

Understanding the significance of a B Corp™ comes down to measuring the success of a company in more than profits and ROI. Can global impact, sustainability, and social justice deliver value to stakeholders too? At Brewer Science, we boldly answered, “yes!” and launched our journey to becoming a...

U.S. consumers are flush with cash, the American economy is hurtling back from the depths of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the semiconductor industry is flying high on skyrocketing chip demand, with chip equities soaring since the initial outbreak in early 2020 as virus outbreaks worldwide...

What can you learn about Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Retention from an old, white dude? As it turns out, quite a lot.  I must admit, as an older, white male I was reluctant to author a blog on diversity, equity, inclusion and retention. Some might feel that I am the least likely person...

When COVID-19 hit the semiconductor industry, SEMI members were confronted with new hurdles to keeping their employees safe and their operations running uninterrupted. We quickly assisted our global membership around the globe by providing a forum for collecting member insights on best practices...

SEMI spoke with Daniel Drellich, vice president of Human Resources at Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany about the race for talent and diversity, equity, and inclusion (DE&I) strategies in the semiconductor industry, as well as about how Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany is tackling this very...

Traditionally, defect classification is done manually by operators or using Automated Optical Inspection (AOI) machines, often leading to classification inconsistencies. Also, rules-based AOIs may at times be unable to fully satisfy project requirements due to the rigidity of inspection...

What does it mean to identify as LGBTQIA+ in the semiconductor industry? It’s an interesting question to ask, but a difficult one to answer. Because we live in a world in which cisgender heteronormity is assumed, it’s possible to self-identify as LGBTQIA+ without sharing that information publicly....