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December 7, 2021

Chip Shortages Continue: Top Trends for 2022

Looking back at 2021, seismic shifts moved the semiconductor industry, with the most notable being the global ripple effects of the chip shortage. The year 2022 is bound to see the chip shortage continue to impact supply chains, but there are several other key trends that will dramatically shape the landscape of this industry. Let's look ahead. As demand for chips continues to soar ...
EE Times

Improving Energy And Power Efficiency In The Data Center
Energy costs in data centers are soaring as the amount of data being generated explodes, and it's being made worse by an imbalance between increasingly dense processing ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Monolithic Magnetic Sensors Manufactured by Selective Laser Annealing
This paper gives an overview of the design, function, operation, and production results for a laser-based annealing technology which enables the programming of ...
Technical Paper

Industry watch: It's hard to tell friends from foes
When developing its advanced packaging technology, what's TSMC's bigger concern: its own competitiveness or the feelings of other packaging firms? In the past, Intel made ...
Digitimes

TSMC, MediaTek upbeat about Metaverse future
Contract chipmaker Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) and integrated circuit designer MediaTek Inc. are both optimistic about the "Metaverse" concept, expecting ...
Focus Taiwan

Technical Papers

The Effects of Long-Term Storage on Solderability of Components

Optimizing cycle times in the semiconductor industry with Openair-Plasma

Preparing TEM Specimens and Atom Probe Tips by Laser Machining

High Thermal Non-Conductive Die Attach

High-Resolution Roughness Metrology for the Wafer Fab

Efficient Manufacture of IR Sensors

Qualifying the ExposedPad TQFP for AEC-Q006 Grade 0

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Intel's CEO comes to Oregon, stumping for billions to aid his industry and his company
Few things cost more than a computer chip plant. Two Intel factories under construction in Arizona will run $10 billion apiece -- each as much as a dozen NFL stadiums. ...
The Oregonian

US sues to block Nvidia's US$40bn deal for Arm
US antitrust officials sued to block chipmaker Nvidia Corp's proposed US$40 billion takeover of Arm Ltd, saying the deal would hobble innovation in semiconductors and ...
Taipei Times

Power/Performance Bits: Dec. 6
Researchers from the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD), Hengyang Normal University, Nanjing University, National University of Singapore, and ...
Semiconductor Engineering

TSMC chairman hits back at Intel CEO over Taiwan jab
There are probably not many people who believe that Taiwan is unstable because of geopolitical factors, the chairman of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. said in ...
Focus Taiwan

Supply of automotive chips improves in November, December
The global supply of automotive chips has increased in November and December after months of shortages, allowing automakers and downstream parts suppliers to ...
Digitimes

ASE's China divestment to upgrade portfolio: analysts
ASE Technology Holding Co's (日月光投控) proposed sale of some Chinese subsidiaries is expected to affect its overall revenue in the near term, but would ...
Taipei Times

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Dec 7, 2021
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Dec 7, 2021
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Dec 15, 2021
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Dec 15, 2021
2020 SCIS Parts Clean Program
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In radio, what does AM and FM stand for?
Answer: Amplitude Modulation which means the amplitude of the radio signal is used to encode information. FM denotes frequency modulation, which uses a change in frequency to encode information.