COVID-19

SEMI spoke with Anja Maria Muesch and Dr. Philip Matthes at Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany about the challenges and opportunities of generational diversity in the electronics industry workforce.

Luc Van den hove, president and CEO at imec, spoke about semiconductor sustainability, healthcare trends and deep tech, and their implications for the semiconductor industry. Van den hove shared his views ahead of his keynote presentation at SEMI ISS Europe, on May 30, 2022, in Brussels, Belgium.

Kate Wilson, president of the semiconductor division at Edwards Vacuum, has already made progress in tackling critical issues like reducing Edwards’ carbon footprint, building an inclusive workplace, and contributing to overcoming the global chip shortage.

Higher on-package bandwidth, improved yield resiliency and the need to integrate diverse IP from multiple foundries are driving demand for advanced packaging technologies.

Daniel Drellich, VP of Human Resources at Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany spoke about the race for talent and DEI strategies in the semiconductor industry, as well as about how Merck is tackling this very important issue.

The global pandemic redefined well-established paradigms in healthcare. The classic model involving frequent hospital visits is no longer viable due to the risk of contagion. The focus is now on remote and pervasive vital sign monitoring solutions and automated data processing for health assessment.

Dr. Franz Laermer, Research Fellow (Senior Chief Expert) at Robert Bosch GmbH Stuttgart, spoke about the latest trends in medical diagnostics and personalized treatments, and an open platform for the automation of complex molecular diagnostics workflows recently developed by Bosch.

The costs of production are typically based on labor and materials and define manufacturing expenses. What about the cost of poor quality and lack of efficiency in production? How is the pandemic impacting semiconductor manufacturing and what can we expect from the future?

SEMI recently spoke with Yole Développement analysts Dimitrios Damianos and Chenmeijing Liang about MEMS and imaging sensors market trends and how microelectronics-enhanced technologies are supporting the worldwide push to contain the spread of COVID-19.