A LETTER FROM ALI SALEHPOUR - CLIMB THE PRODUCTIVITY CURVE FASTER
Few would argue that we are in an era of unprecedented growth at all nodes of chip manufacturing. Semiconductor industry revenues exceeded $419 billion in 2017, and forecasts call for about $450 billion this year. To meet the growing demand from a host of industries with aggressive time-to-market goals, new semiconductor fabs are springing up worldwide, and existing ones expanding.
充分利用数字孪生技术大力推进智能化的微电子制造
By James Moyne
在智能制造的众多准则中，“数字孪生”解决方案 为微电子制造厂家提供了一个重要的机会，可利用 现有和新兴技术来改善质量和产量，减少不一致性 和降低成本。
STMICROELECTRONICS DEMONSTRATES ADAPTIVE ENDPOINT CONTROL SYSTEM FOR 200MM CMP
By Leonardo Caudo, STMicroelectronics and Cosimo Patini, Applied Materials
Yield enhancement has always been a key goal for semiconductor manufacturers, but has taken on increased urgency given the strong demand for chips to meet a diverse and growing set of applications.
NEW GENERATION 10+ FABS ENABLE BIGGER, BRIGHTER, BETTER TV DISPLAYS
By Kerry Cunningham
Consumers are moving to larger and larger televisions, attracted by the chance to have a more immersive experience and the ability to see what is on the screen from farther away.
应用材料公司科技化服务™支持下一代制造
By David Lammers
随着摩尔定律的延续，行业的全球化程度和资本密集度更高，竞争更为激烈，晶圆厂管理者的关注点已不仅限于器件和设备上的突破，还包括能提高半导体晶圆厂效率的服务技术的重大进步。
EUROPE IN THE SWEET SPOT
By Adele Hars
The semiconductor industry has new drivers in automotive, Internet of Things (IoT), both high- and low power, sensors, and medical and industrial applications—which happen to be traditional European core strengths. The new CEO of French RTO Leti and other industry leaders and analysts see this as a golden opportunity.
工业 4.0 解决方案 进入厂务层
By Andreas Neuber, Maxime Cayer, John Koenig and Shaun Crawford
为了充分发挥制造系统和人员的潜力，许多行业的公司正迅速转向采用 高度自动化的系统和以数字数据驱动的方法和工具。
150MM ALIVE AND KICKING
By Mike Rosa, PhD.
Did you think chip making on 150mm wafers was a thing of the past? Think again. Many of the megatrends shaping our collective futures— mobility, autonomous driving and electric vehicles, 5G wireless communications, augmented- and virtual reality (AR/VR), and healthcare—depend on innovations created on the 150mm wafer size.
THE LAST WORD
By David Lammers
At SEMI’s ISS conference early this year, Niles predicted that fully autonomous cars— widely viewed as a replacement for conventional automobiles— will begin to hit the roads by 2021, while noting that these self-driving cars “will require a tremendous increase in semiconductor content.”