Pete Singer

Co-Founder / Editor-in-Chief

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Pete has over 40 years of publishing experience. He co-founded Semiconductor Digest and the Gold Flag Media company with publisher Kerry Hoffman in 2019. Previously, he spent over 25 years at Semiconductor International and 11 years at Solid State Technology.

Shortages of Equipment, Design Engineers, Face Booming Semiconductor Industry

How to level the playing field with AI software engineers.

Scaling Progress Takes Many Paths at VLSI Symposium

The IEEE 2022 Symposium on VLSI Technology and Circuits attracted 650 people to attend in person in Honolulu, and an equal number of virtual attendees.

Emerging Metrology Requirements for Heterogeneous Integration and 3D Packaging

The ability to speed up the deployment of heterogeneous integration in mass production requires new and more frequent types of measurements in key manufacturing processes, including wafer and die bonding as well as lithography.

Power ICs: A $21B Market Evident in All Applications

Electrification of transport, autonomous driving, batteryfication of power and medical tools, and building and factory automation will continue to drive the market.

Atomic Layer Deposition Gains Traction in More-than-Moore Device Production

ALD adoption is likely to continue despite aggravating supply chain issues and production costs.

Achieving Carbon Neutrality through Predictive Maintenance

By being able to smartly schedule maintenance and repairs, companies can reduce unplanned downtime, decrease maintenance frequency, and decrease waste production while also conserving energy.

SEMI’s S23 Standard – Save Energy, Save Money, Save the Planet

The greatest potential for immediate reductions in GHG emissions in semiconductor manufacturing lies in reducing the energy used by manufacturing equipment.

The Human Hand: Curating Good Data and Creating an Effective Deep-Learning R2R Strategy for High-Volume Manufacturing

Areas ideally suited for AI applications may be repetitive and mental labor-intensive tasks with good available data, or when analytical methods are not applicable or too difficult to find, or data interpolation.

Sony, Samsung, Toshiba, Toppan Have Image Sensor/LiDAR Papers at the VLSI Symposia in June

Since the development of mobile phone camera image sensors, they have been a hot topic with continuous evolution to sub-micron pixels, and more recently the move towards self-driving cars (and other ranging needs) is pushing LiDAR systems.

SEMICON West 2022 Hybrid to Spotlight Sustainability, Smart Technologies, Talent 

Sustainability, smart technologies and workforce development will take center stage at SEMICON West 2022 Hybrid, July 12-14 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, as more than 200 industry leaders, visionaries and technology experts convene