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Continuing to make device components ever smaller and closely packed together is one of the challenges faced by the advanced patterning community every day. From February 25 to March 1, experts in...

For more than thirty years, SEMICON Korea has been known as one of the largest semiconductor shows in the Korean semiconductor industry. This premier event for electronics manufacturing will...

New semiconductor applications are ever changing and improving our lives, from new smartphones and wearables to healthcare, factory automation, and artificial intelligence. The humble memory chip...

As a premier exposition for the electronics manufacturing supply chain, SEMICON Japan will brighten up Tokyo this December with the theme “dreams start here.” The SEMI tradeshows are each...

For the first time, SEMICON Europa will be co-located with productronica – one of the world’s leading trade fairs for electronics development and production – at Messe München in Munich,...

Some of the greatest minds in science and technology will be convening in Tampa for the 64th annual AVS International Symposium & Exhibition starting on October 29, 2017. Among the topics of...

We often hear that advanced chips contain billions of transistors – an incredible, mind-blowing fact to be sure – but did you know that large-scale integrated chips (that are the size of a...

Scientists, engineers, researchers, and industry professionals from around the globe will descend upon National Harbor, Maryland, this October to interact at the 232nd Electrochemical Society...

Multiple patterning continues to be an important technique for enabling pitch shrinking in advanced chip designs. However, as the number of steps grows, managing process variation is a key...

The semiconductor manufacturing community is ready to connect at SEMICON Taiwan, the premier event for microelectronics manufacturing in Taiwan. This year, the event is expected to attract more...

“Data is giving rise to a new economy” – The Economist (2017). This compelling reality makes the continued development of high-capacity data storage technologies like 3D NAND ever more...

Chipmakers want every part of the wafer to produce, or yield, good die. Advances in process technologies over the years have just about made this a reality, even as feature dimensions continue to...

The industry’s transition to 3D NAND is being driven by several important advantages, including its ability to deliver higher capacity with a lower cost per bit. These vertical architectures...

The demands of our modern world for more connectivity, functionality, and capacity from our electronic devices – alongside the seemingly endless imagination for new applications – are pushing...

If you’re part of the semiconductor industry, you know there are few better networking and technical sharing venues than the SEMICON tradeshows, and SEMICON West is no exception. Being held in...

Used to extend the capabilities of conventional lithography, multiple patterning is a process of overlaying patterns of larger dimensions to achieve smaller and/or more tightly packed features. In...

Imagine being able to deposit a film of material just a few atomic layers at a time. As impossible as that sounds, atomic layer deposition (ALD) is a reality. In fact, it’s being used in an...

Southeast Asia is a major hub for the chip industry’s assembly, packaging, and test services – back-end manufacturing processes that are becoming an increasingly important topic of discussion....

Panel-level fan-out chip manufacturing – using large square or rectangular substrates instead of wafers – is being developed as a means to lower the cost of back-end processes for some...

In recent years, SEMICON China has become the semiconductor industry’s largest annual tradeshow, with much of its popularity likely due to the region’s growing chipmaking business. Attendees...

It really is remarkable how our favorite tech products continue to become more compact and powerful, with today’s nanoscale chipmaking quite literally pushing the limits of what is possible. One...

For its 30th anniversary, SEMICON Korea anticipates hosting its largest show ever, with an estimated 40,000 attendees converging at COEX in Seoul on February 8-10, 2017. Korea is the world’s...

Ever open the body of your smartphone (perhaps unintentionally) and see small, black rectangles stuck on a circuit board? Those black rectangles are packaged chips. The external chip structure...

This year marks the 40th anniversary for SEMICON Japan, one of the most extensive international exhibitions of semiconductor equipment and materials. Each SEMI tradeshow has its own unique...

Did you know that different patterns require different types of multiple patterning? Today’s advanced chips are more complex than ever before, with transistors and other structures that are...