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| Focus on: Fab Productivity June 20, 2008 |
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Dear Subscriber,
In an era of energy and environmental concerns, fab productivity takes on new dimensions, including "recycling" mature IC fabs to make image sensors, MEMS and other products. In fact, products such as Nintendo's Wii and Apple's iPhone have sparked a surge of interest in MEMS devices. At SEMICON West on July 15, fab managers will discuss several of these efforts at a workshop, "How to Breath New Life Into Old Fabs." Another set of speakers will participate in an energy conservation workshop, also on July 15. And the recycling and conservation topic arises again at SEMI's Best of West awards, where Air Products vies for an award for its system to recover a rare gas, xenon, from effluent gas streams. For these and related stories, please go to the Fab Facilities Technology Channel:
www.semiconductor.net/fab
David Lammers, News Editor
david.lammers@reedbusiness.com
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Fab Repurposing Raises New Opportunities
Thomas Morrow, SEMI Vice President Global Expositions and Marketing, SEMI, San Jose — Semiconductor International, 6/20/2008
Although new 300 mm fabs dominate the headlines, 200 mm fabs continue to do much of the heavy lifting in the global semiconductor market. In fact, 200 mm wafer capacity still exceeds 300 mm capacity in equivalent units. More
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Energy Conservation Yields Rapid Payback in Today's Fabs
Thomas Morrow, SEMI Vice President of Global Expositions and Marketing, SEMI, San Jose — Semiconductor International, 6/20/2008
Today's most advanced fabs have opportunities for energy savings and reductions in greenhouse gases. In many cases, taking advantage of the opportunities requires close collaboration with equipment and subsystem providers to achieve optimum results, but the payback can be significant and swift. More
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Consumer Applications Push MEMS to New Volumes
SEMI, San Jose — Semiconductor International, 6/20/2008
Leading MEMS producers report on their new devices for consumer applications and the emerging processes necessary to make and test them at consumer market prices in Tuesday's Emerging Markets TechXPOT at SEMICON West. More
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Productivity Solutions Highlight Best of West Awards
Thomas Morrow, Vice President of Global Expositions and Marketing, SEMI, San Jose — Semiconductor International, 6/20/2008
Several finalists for SEMI's inaugural Best of West awards focus on productivity improvements in the semiconductor design-to-production flow. More
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OmniVision, TSMC Develop Sensor Technology
David Lammers, News Editor — Semiconductor International, 5/27/2008
OmniVision Technologies Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.), working with foundry partner Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (TSMC, Hsinchu, Taiwan), developed CMOS image sensor technology that will use a fully depreciated 0.11 µm fab and standard tools to manufacture backside illumination image sensors. More
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Yield, Surface Prep for Nano Devices
Ahmed Busnaina, Director, The NSF Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center — Semiconductor International, 6/1/2008
Nanoscale emerging research devices in the "beyond CMOS scaling" realm require knowledge about how they will be manufactured, including yield issues and what the future holds for surface preparation and cleaning. More
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Visionox Readies First Volume OLED Line
Yao Gang, Editor-in-Chief, SI China — Semiconductor International, 6/11/2008
Visionox Technology Co. (Beijing, China), a pioneer in the organic light-emitting diode (OLED) field in China, said its volume OLED production line will be put into operation in October. The facility will have an annual capacity of more than 10 million small-size OLED devices. More
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Samsung Investing $908M in Memory Line Upgrade
Ann Steffora Mutschler, Senior Editor — Electronic News, 5/27/2008
Samsung Electronics (Seoul, South Korea) approved a $908M plan to expand and upgrade its existing memory lines. More
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A Better Way to Manage Test Wafers
Laura Peters, Editor-in-Chief — Semiconductor International, 5/8/2008
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD, Sunnyvale, Calif.) engineer Aziza Faruqi outlined a methodology to decrease the inventory of test wafers (TWs), improve TW lifecycle and automate TW management in fab operations. She spoke at the Advanced Semiconductor Manufacturing Conference (ASMC), held last month in Cambridge, Mass. More
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Applied Shifts 200 mm Manufacturing, Refurbishing to Dedicated Line
David Lammers, News Editor — Semiconductor International, 3/25/2008
Applied Materials Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.) has shifted 200 mm equipment production for both new and refurbished machines to a dedicated line at its Austin facility. More
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| This Week's Top Stories... |
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Most Viewed Articles for the Week of June 16, 2008
Unsolicited bids are popular recently, with both Applied Materials and Cadence going after companies that refuse to profess their mutual love. In this week’s top news, Applied reiterates that it’s still interested in ASM International, and Cadence goes public with an offer that Mentor Graphics turned down months ago. Other top articles include Intel’s news that it will join the solar race, Spansion’s move from DRAM to flash, and IMEC’s simplified high-k/metal gates. More
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