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MCA would like to thank all of our panelists and Ed Korczynski, our moderator, for their participation on our BrightSpots 450-mm Forum.  The forum is now closed for new discussions, but we encourage you to check out the videos of our live panel event at SEMICON West, one-on-one interviews with the participants, as well as the online panel discussions that took place.

The BrightSpots Team

The BrightSpots 450-mm Forum is now closed

The transition to 450-mm wafers is expected to be a tremendous undertaking for the entire semiconductor industry ecosystem. Even accounting for the potentially substantial cost-savings through higher productivity by moving to 450-mm wafers, the funding issues, timing, and manufacturing process challenges are serious concerns. A transition to 450 mm will require unprecedented coordinated efforts across the entire supply chain.

MODERATOR

Ed Korczynski
BetaSights and SemiMD

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PANELISTS:

Michel Brillouet
CEA-Leti

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Paul Lindner
EV Group

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Risto Puhakka
VLSI Research

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Gus Richard
Piper Jaffray

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Olivier Demolliens
CEA-Leti

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BetaBlog
Jul. 25, 2011
Innovalight specialty PV materials company gets acquired by DuPont after successful integration of its silicon-ink screen-printed selective emitter (SE) into mulitple customer crystalline-silicon production lines.Read Complete PostingAuthor: edkorczynski Read More>>
Editor's View
Feb. 16, 2012
By David Lammers Do you remember how you were first exposed to the semiconductor industry, to the idea that the field might be a good place in which to work? For me, it happened to be in the early 1980s, reading an article in National Geographic magazine while manning the night editing desk at the Associated Press bureau in Tokyo. I remember the author wrote that making semiconductors was “basic Read More>>
Siliconisms
Aug. 31, 2011
GlobalFoundries has fully transformed itself into a pure-play foundry, now that the company’s Fab1 in Dresden is well past being an AMD line running a single product. As disclosed at the company’s Global Technology Conference held Aug. 30th in Santa Clara, California, Fab1 now runs 45, 32, and 28nm node processes for multiple customers. “Out customer base is primarily in the U.S., li Read More>>
 
 

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