Industry 4.0

SEMI spoke with Rebecca Dobson, Corporate Vice President EMEA at Cadence Design Systems, about semiconductor industry growth drivers and why semiconductor design is crucial to meeting device scaling challenges today and beyond.

SEMI spoke with Elisabeth Brandl, Business Development Manager at EV Group about trends and new developments within the power electronics industry and the devices' application in smart mobility. Brandl shared her views as part of the SEMI Technology Unites Global Summit, 15-19 February 2021.

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?

Despite the need for more advanced anticipation solutions, the penetration of AI for quality prediction remains limited. This is especially true for more advanced AI techniques, such as neural networks, which perform better in modelling complex systems but require vast amounts of balanced data.

The evolution of industrial and non-industrial automation, smart manufacturing, and Industry 4.0 technologies have increased demand for vision systems that support robust, reliable imaging industrial applications. What factors are driving growth in the machine vision market today?

Autonomous vehicle design can only thrive with the development of an industry standard for chip and device traceability across the supply chain. The importance of chip traceability to the automotive industry is reflected in its central role in driving a chip traceability standard.

SEMI spoke with Christian Mandl, Senior Director for Human Machine Interface (HMI), Infineon Technologies AG, about how the sensing capabilities of machines are getting ever closer to the five human senses, allowing machines to comprehend the environment before acting.