SEMI Reaffirms Support for Industry Cooperation on RoHS Review
SEMI today confirmed its support for a Joint-Industry Cooperation on an RoHS Review aimed at urging the European Commission to, at a minimum, consider dedicating more resources to a targeted outreach programme with third countries. The...
The Gigafab Minute and SEMI Standards: A Modern Miracle
Even for someone who has been in this industry since the days of the TI Datamath 4-function calculator and the TMS1100 4-bit microcontroller (yes, that’s been a LONG time – the movie Grease premiered the same year!), it is sometimes hard to grasp...
Japan – A Thriving, Highly Versatile Chip Manufacturing Region
On June 1st, 2018, Toshiba sold Toshiba Memory, Toshiba’s memory business, to an investment group led by Bain Capital. Toshiba Memory was then owned by a consortium of American, Japanese and Korean companies.
SEMI Calls for Exclusion Process for Products in New China Tariff List
Amid U.S.-China Trade War, SEMI Urges International Cooperation in Beijing Press Conference
Tensions between the U.S. and China have reached fever pitch as the Trump administration imposed higher tariffs on $200 billion of Chinese goods last Monday, adding to the $50 billion in goods hit with higher duties earlier this year. Bloomberg...
U.S.-China Trade War Heats Up with Semiconductor Industry Caught in the Middle
U.S. Government Imposes Tariffs on $200 Billion of Goods and China Retaliates on $60 Billion of Goods
Earlier this week, the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) released a 10 percent tariff on $200 billion in imports from China, including more than...
China Trade Brings Semiconductor Executives to DC for the Fall Washington Forum
Last week, more than a dozen senior semiconductor executives traveled to Washington, DC for the first-ever Fall Washington Forum. The SEMI Washington Forum, a venue for SEMI members to educate lawmakers about the industry, focused on action...
Top 10 Semiconductor Industry Innovations - Dr. Morris Chang, Father of the IC Foundry Model
Over the past three decades, most of the world’s innovations have centered largely on business models and involved iterative advances of existing technologies, with none matching the global impact of the top 10 semiconductor industry discoveries...
Standard for Fan-Out Panel Size Ready to Ballot
The arrival of Fan-Out Panel Level Packaging (FO-PLP) appears to be at a perfect time: This technology will leverage processes developed for Three Dimensional Stacked Integrated Circuits (3DS-IC) as well as panel processing technologies developed...
SEMI Testifies Against Third Round of U.S. Tariffs Citing Damage to Semiconductor Supply Chain
In testimony today before a U.S. government interagency panel considering tariffs on $200 billion worth of Chinese goods, SEMI called for the removal of nearly 100 tariff lines, all of which cover items critical to the semiconductor manufacturing...
