Special Report
When Cleaning Chips Isn’t Clean Enough
Contamination is a systems-level limiter at advanced nodes, and there’s no simple solution to fix it.
Top Stories
Laser Arrays May Simplify Co-Packaged Optics
Monolithic tunable lasers can adapt statically and dynamically.
Why Indium Oxide Chips Are Getting So Much Attention
Much work still needs to be done to make these materials reliable enough for commercialization.
Why Move To 2nm?
Leading-edge chipmakers are starting to look at process node scaling very differently.
eBook
Chiplet Fundamentals For Engineers: EBook
A 65-page in-depth research report on the next phase of device scaling.
Video
Agentic AI In Chip Manufacturing
What happens when you take the human out of the loop.
Sponsor Blogs
Amkor’s Dambi Jo shows why efficient heat dissipation is critical in fan-out packages, in Redefining Backside Metallization: Low‑Temperature Solutions For HDFO And S‑SWIFT Designs.
Lam Research’s Sam Sarkar explains how to identify sensitive parameters, optimize recipes, and improve die yield without the time and cost of extensive wafer-based testing, in Understanding Within-Wafer Variations: A Virtual Fabrication Approach.
Synopsys’ Anders Blom and Igor Markov examine the benefits of machine-learned force fields, transforming the modeling of atomic interactions, in Force Fields Will Accelerate Atomistic Simulations By 10,000× In 2026, Unlocking New Era Of Discovery.
SEMI bloggers Jan-Bart Smits and David Harap dig into regional differences and predictions for photonics, warning that teams must make decisions now about technologies that won’t mature for years, in Leading At Light Speed: What Makes Photonics Leadership Different.
Sponsor White Papers
SEMI 2026 U.S. Policy Strategy
Five interconnected areas critical to strengthening U.S. leadership.
Enabling The Industry’s First GPU-Accelerated Manufacturing Platform
The significant increase in computing requirements for computational lithography and how GPUs can meet this demand while facilitating faster deployment times.
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