Asahi Glass announcements – SID 2011
May 17, 2011, Society for Information Display, Los Angeles—We talked to Takahiro Ikezaki, vp of the electronics flat glass division from Asahi Glass Company about their latest developments. Thin and...
View ArticleAutomotive designs get 40nm Flash IP
December 15, 2011 - San Jose, CA - Renesas Electronics Corp. just announced the availability of their new embedded Flash memory IP for the automotive industry. Supplementing their 90nm process...
View ArticlePrinted Metal Oxide TFTs
December 1,2011, Printed Electronics USA 2011, Santa Clara, CA—Warren Jackson from HP talked about fabricating large area metal oxide thin film transistors (MOTFT) using roll-to-roll imprint...
View ArticleAdvances in CMOS
April 26, 2012, GSA Silicon Summit, Mountain View, CA—Subramani Kengeri from Global Foundries acknowledged a gap between efforts and capabilities in the lab versus those in the fab. To continue...
View ArticleMEMS on the way to $Trillion/Trillion Units
May 23, 2012 - The MEMS Tech Symposium had its theme presentation on the MEMS market reaching the $Trillion mark in the future, from Janusz Bryzek of Fairchild Semi. The presentation focused on the...
View ArticleAtomic Layer Deposition
July 11, 2012, FlexTech Alliance, San Francisco—Ritwik Bhatia from Cambridge NanoTech described the details of processing engineered materials in atomic layer granularity. This process allows for the...
View ArticleVertical MOTFT
July 11, 2012, FlexTech Alliance, San Francisco—Shelby Nelson from Eastman Kodak described ongoing experiments with equipment, materials, and process design to create vertical thin-film transistors....
View ArticleOLED Advances
August 14, 2012, Emerging Display Technology Conference, Santa Clara, CA—G. Rajeswaran form Moser Baer Technologies presented the advances in OLED technology for displays and lighting. The latest...
View ArticleAutodesk Implements Innovation
November 13, 2012, A. Richard Newton Global Technology Leaders' Conference, UC Berkeley—Carl Bass from Autodesk presented a view of engineering innovation by design. After a short video, he said that...
View ArticleISSCC Session 6 Medical and Sensor Technologies
February 18, 2013, ISSCC, San Francisco—Session 6 demonstrated emerging medical and sensor technologies. Contributors included KAIST in Korea, Masdar Institute of Science and Technology in UAE,...
View ArticleLeti Research Reviews
July 9, 2013, Semicon West, San Francisco—Laurent Malier from Leti offered a view of the next decade and the drivers for technology. Semiconductors will be more important in the future as everything...
View ArticleScaling Beyond 10 nm
July 8, 2013, IMEC Technology Forum, San Francisco—An Steegen from Imec displayed the power, area, cost, and performance requirements for continuation of process scaling. The biggest challenge is that...
View ArticleMastering Patterning Costs
July 8, 2013, IMEC Technology Forum, San Francisco—Kurt Ronse from Imec talked about mastering patterning costs for future technology nodes. The biggest problems are that the technical requirements do...
View ArticleFlat Display Panel Manufacturing
August 6, 2013, Emerging Display Technologies Conference, San Jose, CA-Charles Annis from NPD DisplaySearch presented the trends and markets for flat panel displays and their manufacture. Then...
View ArticleMaterials and Manufacturing Panel
August 6, 2013, Emerging Display Technologies Conference, San Jose, CA-Charles Annis from NPD DisplaySearch moderated a panel on materials and manufacturing. Panelists were Jeff Yurek from Nanosys,...
View ArticleChip Design After Moore’s Law Ends
August 26, 2013, Hot Chips Conference, Stanford, CA—Robert Colwell, director of the Microsystems technology office at DARPA and former Intel manager, sees the end of Dennard scaling within the next...
View ArticleIntel CEO Opens IDF 2013
September 10, 2013, IDF, San Francisco—Brian Krzanich declared that it is different being at IDF as the CEO for Intel. Nevertheless, the company continues to move along and innovate. The increasing...
View ArticleTouch Sensor Developments
August 6, 2013, Emerging Display Technologies Conference, San Jose, CA-A panel moderated by Paul Semenza from NPD DisplaySearch looked at the developing technologies for touch sensors. The panel...
View ArticleLETI-CEA 2014 Technology Review
July 8, 2014, LETI Day, San Francisco—Various executives from the research consortium LETI talked about technology platforms to address future industrial challenges. Hughes Metras opened the event with...
View ArticleR&D in a Consolidated Semiconductor Landscape Panel
July 7, 2014, IMEC Technology Forum, San Francisco—A panel considered the likelihood of an inflection point in the semiconductor industry. Debra Vogler from Instant Insights moderated the panel....
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