Special Report
The Race To Glass Substrates
Replacing silicon and organic substrates requires huge shifts in manufacturing, creating challenges that will take years to iron out.
Top Stories
Integration Hurdles For Analog And RF In Next-Gen Packages
Strategies and advancements for thermal dissipation, shielding, and testing schemes.
Reducing Risk In The Semiconductor Supply Chain
Companies are changing the supply and demand formula in the wake of severe chip shortages, but it’s not a simple fix.
Sidestepping Lithography In Chip Manufacturing
Selective deposition could slow the need for additional lithography steps, helping to control costs for advanced-node chips.
Veterans Could Close The Semi Industry’s Workforce Gap
A Penn State-led model to bring veterans into the chip industry could scale for broad workforce development.
Blogs
Amkor’s Ruben Fuentes examines the infrastructure needed to support future high-density wafer-level fan-out design requirements, in Package Assembly Design Kits: The Future Of Advanced Package Design.
Lam Research’s Sam Sarkar digs into CFETs and why failure to adhere to very tight parameter windows causes unintended shorts and opens, in Understanding CFETs, A Next Generation Transistor Architecture.
Brewer Science’s Joyce Lowes offers insights into patterning, photoresist, and anti-reflective coatings, in Exploring The Fundamentals Of Photolithography.
Tignis’ David Park details how AI and machine learning enable technical staff to operate more efficiently and retain institutional knowledge, in Navigating The Talent Crunch: AI Solutions For A Thriving Semiconductor Manufacturing Sector.
Siemens EDA’s Ingo Bork provides an overview of new materials, tools, and approaches for next-generation mask blank development and defect detection, in A Wrap-Up Of Photomask Japan 2024.
Synopsys’ Al Blais and Johnny Yeap delve into maskless lithography and how it facilitates faster yield ramp and more efficient cycles of learning, in Accelerating Innovation With An E-Beam Lithography System.
Lam Research’s Wojtek Osowiecki, chair of SEMI’s Climate Equity and Social Impact (CESI), looks at progress and future directions for sustainability projects, in Sparking Climate Action With Earth Month Lightning Talks.
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