Special Report
DNA Sequencing Device Market Heats Up
Technology for mapping genes is improving faster than Moore’s Law. New options range from advanced semiconductors and new materials to nanopores.
Top Stories
Fab Tool Biz Faces Challenges In 2015
It’s not necessarily bad news, but there are some big unknowns. Consolidation likely will continue.
Yield Ramp Challenges Increase
As the industry moves down process nodes, it is increasingly difficult to ramp yield from both a test and manufacturing perspective. What is the next step?
How To Test IoT Devices
Existing approaches may work initially, but new technology and methods will be necessary as the IoT gains steam.
One-On-One: Jeffrey Schloss
Genomic research director talks about how the latest genomic advances will utilize advances in chips, including nanopores, graphene and manufacturing cost reduction.
Video
Tech Talk: Inverse Lithography
Where the problems are with lithography and what needs to be done to break the logjam.
Blogs
Editor in Chief Ed Sperling observes that everyone is so concerned about what the competition is up to that no one is doing much of anything, in What’s The Other Guy Doing?
Executive Editor Mark LaPedus finds that CMOS-based DNA sequencing chips and competing technologies face a number of cost and technical hurdles, in What’s Next For DNA Chips?
Mentor Graphics’ David Abercrombie takes a deep dive into what you expect to encounter, and what you’ll really find in multi-patterning at advanced nodes, in Multiple Patterns, Multiple Trade-Offs.
Applied Materials’ Max McDaniel cites a survey that shows four common threads for displays in the U.S., China and India, in What Consumers Want In Their Displays.
Semico Research’s Joanne Itow attends Semicon Japan and finds big growth opportunities in wearables, health care and energy control and monitoring, in IoT’s Potential In Japan.
SEMI’s Christopher Dieseldorff projects capital equipment sales in the range in 2014 and 2015, in Solid Years: Cautious Optimism Drives Equipment Spending Into 2015.
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