Recognising innovations and other outstanding accomplishments in flexible hybrid electronics (FHE), SEMI FlexTech, a SEMI Technology Community, presented the 2023 FLEXI Awards at the FLEX Conference and Exhibition, co-located with SEMICON West 2023 in San Francisco.

The echo opto-acoustic metrology system from Onto Innovation has won the 2023 Best of West award, SEMI and Semiconductor Digest announced at SEMICON West 2023.

Cerebras Systems, provider of the fastest artificial intelligence (AI) accelerator, has won the 2023 SEMI Award for North America for process and technology integration at SEMICON West.

Electronic System Design (ESD) industry revenue increased 12% from $3,527.7 million in the first quarter of 2022 to $3,951.1 million in the first quarter of 2023, the ESD Alliance, a SEMI Technology Community, announces in its latest ‘Electronic Design Market Data (EDMD)’ report.

Critical semiconductor industry topics will take centre stage at SEMICON West 2023 with CEOs gathering at the Moscone Centre in San Francisco for the latest insights into industry growth opportunities, sustainability, and workforce development.

3D integration and systems for semiconductor manufacturing applications will take centre stage at SEMI 3D & Systems Summit as the event opens with experts sharing the latest developments and insights into the 3D roadmap, heterogeneous integration (HI) and system-in-package (SiP) technologies for smarter systems. Registration is open for the 26th – 28th June summit in Dresden, Germany.

Global semiconductor materials market revenue grew 8.9% to $72.7 billion in 2022.

Powered by strong demand for new electronics innovations, the global semiconductor packaging materials market is expected to reach $29.8 billion by 2027, a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 2.7% from the $26.1 billion in revenue it logged in 2022, SEMI, TECHCET and TechSearch International announced today in their new Global Semiconductor Packaging Materials Outlook report.  

SEMI has announced the election of two new members to the SEMI North America Advisory Board (NAAB): Maheen Hamid, Co-Founder, CFO, and COO of Breker Verification Systems, and Michael Lercel, Senior Director of Global Strategic Marketing at ASML. 

Advances driving the next generation of medical, environmental and mobility applications will take centre stage at the SEMI MEMS & Sensors Technical Congress (MSTC 2023), opening tomorrow at the Samberg Conference Centre, Chang Building, at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge.

The current global semiconductor manufacturing industry contraction is expected to moderate in the second quarter of 2023 and give way to a gradual recovery starting in the third quarter, SEMI announced in its Q1 2023 publication of the Semiconductor Manufacturing Monitor (SMM) Report, prepared in partnership with TechInsights.

Market forecasts, insights into the latest semiconductor materials developments, and the key role of materials in sustainability will take the spotlight at SMC Korea 2023 at the Suwon Convention Centre in Suwon-si, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea.

FlexTech, a SEMI Technology Community focused on driving flexible hybrid electronics (FHE) innovations, has issued a Request for Proposals (RFP) for advances in innovative materials, FHE design tools, additive-enabled processing, hybrid electronics packaging, FHE manufacturing, AI/ML applications, soft robotics, and power solutions.

More than 85 experts will offer insights on the latest semiconductor manufacturing strategies and methodologies as hundreds of industry stakeholders gather at the 34th annual SEMI Advanced Semiconductor Manufacturing Conference (ASMC 2023), in Saratoga Springs, New York.

SEMI, the industry association serving the global electronics design and manufacturing supply chain, has applauded the provisional agreement reached in the European Chips Act Trilogue Negotiations to invest €43 billion to bolster Europe’s microelectronics industry.

Worldwide sales of semiconductor equipment increased 5% from $102.6 billion in 2021 to an all-time record of $107.6 billion last year SEMI reports.

The vital importance of workplace inclusion and diversity to the growth of the global semiconductor industry will take centre stage as the Women in Semiconductors (WiS) programme returns in-person on 1 May 2023 in conjunction with the SEMI Advanced Semiconductor Manufacturing Conference (ASMC 2023) in Saratoga Springs, New York.

SEMI has announced that SEMI Europe, as the lead of a new 18-partner consortium, has won up to €4 million in funding to develop the European Chips Skills Academy, an initiative to help tackle the skills and talent shortages in Europe’s electronics industry and propel its long-term growth. The initiative is backed by more than 30 partner research organisations, vocational and education training providers, certification agencies and indu...

Experts in 3D integration and systems for semiconductor manufacturing will gather at the annual SEMI 3D & Systems Summit, June 26-28, 2023 in Dresden, for insights into the latest heterogeneous integration innovations for semiconductor applications enabling the future of intelligent systems.

SEMI has announced that members of its Supply Chain Management (SCM) Initiative have formed an Industry Advisory Council (IAC), a group of industry leaders that will guide the initiative in its mission to advance an agile and resilient global electronics supply chain.