I attend a large number of conferences and industry events every year. I always take notes and frequently publish summaries of the sessions. Summaries are typically broken up to multiple posts with links below each event on this page. If you would like to know more about a particular event or if there is an event for which I haven’t posted my notes (marked with ‘*’), please ask.
In reverse chronological order:
2012-Dec-12~14
RTI International Technology Venture Forum presented the 9th international “3-D Architectures for Semiconductor Integration and Packaging” conference. Redwood City, CA.
My summary for Chip Scale Review
2012-Dec-4
Xconomy and PARC presented “The Power of the Pivot!“. Palo Alto, CA. *
2012-Dec-4
IEEE San Francisco Bay Area Nanotechnology Council presentation by Blanka Magyari-Köpe, Senior Research Engineer at Stanford University, “Atomistic aspects of the resistive switching characteristics in RRAM devices”. Santa Clara, CA. *
2012-Nov-15
MicroElectronics Packaging and Test Council (MEPTEC) held the “Known Good Die 2012” conference. Santa Clara, CA. *
2012-Nov-14
MicroElectronics Packaging and Test Council (MEPTEC) “Roadmaps for Multi Die Integration” conference was held. Santa Clara, CA. *
2012-Nov-13
Surface Mount Technology Association and MicroElectronics Packaging and Test Council (MEPTEC) held the “Inflection Points in Surface Mount Technology: Manufacturing and Test Challenges”. Santa Clara, CA. *
2012-Nov-13
IEEE San Francisco Bay Area Nanotechnology Council presentation by Dr. Héctor J. De Los Santos, NanoMEMS Research, “NanoMEMS”. Santa Clara, CA. *
2012-Nov-8~9
IEEE International Workshop on “Testing Three-Dimensional Stacked Integrated Circuits.“. Anaheim, CA. *
2012-Nov-7
Keizai Society panel discussion “The Future of Robotics: Emerging Waves in The U.S. and Japan!”. Palo Alto, CA. *
2012-Nov-1
Samsung’s CIO Forum 2012. San Jose, CA. *
2012-Oct-18
MEMS Journal and MicroElectronics Packaging and Test Council (MEPTEC) held the MEMS Testing and Reliability 2012 on conference on October 18, 2012 in Santa Clara, CA.
2012-Oct-16
IEEE San Francisco Bay Area Nanotechnology Council presentation by Srilakshmi Lingamneni, Standford University, “Novel Thermal Interface Materials for 3D Chip Stacks”. Santa Clara, CA. *
2012-Sep-20
Keizai Society panel discussion “The Patent Game: Changing Values in Changing Times”. Palo Alto, CA. *
2012-Sep-18
IEEE San Francisco Bay Area Nanotechnology Council presentation by Bret Adams, EnerVault, “Nanotechnology Enabled Redox Flow Batteries Give the Smart Grid a High IQ”. Santa Clara, CA. *
2012-Sep-18
MEMCON, Santa Clara, CA. *
2012-Sep-10
Harvard Business School “US Competitiveness”, Redwood City, CA. *
2012-Aug-30
SEMI Silicon Valley Lunch Forum “Forecast Luncheon”, Santa Clara, CA. *
2012-Aug-29
Silicon Valley Test Workshop, Santa Clara, CA. *
2012-Aug-21~23
Flash Memory Summit, Santa Clara, CA. *
2012-Aug-21
IEEE San Francisco Bay Area Nanotechnology Council presentation by Jie Yao, Post-doctoral Researcher at Stanford University, “Broadband Light Management Using Low-Q Whispering Gallery Modes in Spherical Nanoshells”. Santa Clara, CA. *
2012-Jul-18
IEEE San Francisco Bay Area Nanotechnology Council presentation by Dr. Joy C. Andrews, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, “Nanoscale Chemical Imaging of Energy Materials with Full-Field Transmission X-ray Microscopy”. Santa Clara, CA. *
2012-Jul-11~12
Test Vision 2020, San Francisco, CA. *
2012-Jul-11
SEMICON West 2012, San Francisco, CA. *
2012-Jul-8~10
International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors (ITRS) Summer Meeting, Monterey, CA. *
2012-Jun-18~21
TechConnect World 2012 Nanotech, Microtech, Biotech, and Cleantech conference and exposition was held June 18-21, 2012 in Santa Clara, CA. *
2012-Jun-10~13
IEEE Semiconductor Wafer Test Workshop (SWTW) The 22nd annual conference was held June 10-13, 2012 in San Diego, CA:
Process Improvements for High Volume Manufacturing (HVM)”
Optimizing Probe Depth Performance
New Contactor Technologies and RF PCB Design (including my presentation)
New Probe Card and Contact Technologies
Productivity / Cost of Ownership (COO)
2012-Jun-4
Design Automation Conference, San Francisco, CA. *
2012-May-24
MEMS Journal and MicroElectronics Packaging and Test Council (MEPTEC) held the MEMS Business Forum 2012 on May 24, 2012 in Santa Clara, CA. *
2012-May-23
MicroElectronics Packaging and Test Council (MEPTEC) 10th annual MEMS Technology Symposium, San Jose, CA:
Thinking Big: $1 Trillion MEMS Market – Part 1
Thinking Big: $1 Trillion MEMS Market – Part 2
2012-May-15
IEEE San Francisco Bay Area Nanotechnology Council presentation by Dr. Ben Wang, co-founder of Savya Nanotechnologies, “Nanostructured Thin Films via Layer-by-Layer Assembly at the Industrial Scale”. Santa Clara, CA.
2012-Apr-26
Global Semiconductor Alliance held the Silicon Summit and 3D IC Working Group Meeting was held in Mountain View, CA. *
2012-Apr-19
SEMI Silicon Valley Lunch Forum “Manufacturing For Mobile Solutions: The Impact of Mobile Devices on Supply Chain Dynamics” was held on April 19, 2012 in Santa Clara, CA.
2012-Apr-6
IEEE San Francisco Bay Area Nanotechnology Council full day symposium “Emerging Non-Volatile Memory Technologies” was held on April 6, 2012 in Santa Clara, CA.
Memory Technology – Off to the Races!
2012-Mar-28~29
Design West 2012 and Sensor Summit was held in San Jose, CA. *
2012-Mar-20
IEEE San Francisco Bay Area Nanotechnology Council presentation by Dr. Tian-Ling Ren,Professor, Institute of Microelectronics, Tsinghua University, China and Visiting Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University “Novel Flexible Acoustic Devices”. Santa Clara, CA. *
2012-Mar-19
SEMI-THERM 28th annual Thermal Measurement, Modeling & Management Symposium “Heat is On” was held in San Jose, CA. *
2012-Mar-14
Common Platform Technology Forum was held on March 14, 2012 in Santa Clara, CA. *
2012-Mar-4~7
The 13th annual Burn-in & Test Strategies Workshop (BiTS) was held March 4-7, 2012 in Mesa, AZ.
Two Conferences – Two Industries Challenged By Post PC Era
2012-Feb-28~Mar-1
IPC APEX Expo was held February 28 – March 1, 2012 in San Diego, CA.
Two Conferences – Two Industries Challenged By Post PC Era
2012-Jan-30~Feb-1
DesignCon 2012 was held January 30 – February 1, 2012 in Santa Clara, CA. *
2012-Jan-24
IEEE San Francisco Bay Area Nanotechnology Council presentation by Zhiyong Li, Hewlett-Packard Labs, “Implementing Smell and Taste with Nano-sensors”. Santa Clara, CA. *
2012-Jan-15~18
SEMI Industry Strategy Symposium was held January 15-18, 2012 in Half Moon Bay, CA.
SEMI ISS – Snapshot of a Wild Ride – Session 1
SEMI ISS – Snapshot of a Wild Ride – Session 2
SEMI ISS – Snapshot of a Wild Ride – Other Coverage
2012-Jan-11
MicroElectronics Packaging and Test Council (MEPTEC) presentation by Ed Pausa, PricewaterhouseCooper “Continued Growth: China’s Impact on the Semiconductor Industry – 2011 Update” on January 11, 2012 in Santa Clara, CA.
Big Numbers – The Semiconductor Supply Chain
(Incomplete listing prior to 2012.)
2011-Jun-12~15
IEEE Semiconductor Wafer Test Workshop (SWTW) The 21th annual conference was held June 12-15, 2011 in San Diego, CA:
Session 2- Optimization / Process Analysis
Session 4- High Performance Probing
Session 5 – Spring Pin Probing
Session 7 – High Temp / Extreme Probing
Session 9 – Productivity / COO
2011-May-17
IEEE San Francisco Bay Area Nanotechnology Council 7th Annual Symposium “Nanotechnology – Consumer Applications” May 17, 2011, Santa Clara, CA
Session 1 – Energy Generation and Storage
2011-Mar-6~9
The 12th annual Burn-in & Test Strategies Workshop (BiTS) was held March 6-9, 2011 in Mesa, AZ. *
2010-Oct-19~20
MEMS Technology Summit was held at Stanford University October 19-20, 2010:
First thoughts post-conference: WOW! MEMS Technology Summit
Session One – Special Presentations
2010-Jun-6~9
IEEE Semiconductor Wafer Test Workshop (SWTW) The 20th annual conference was held June 6-9, 2010 in San Diego, CA:
Session 1 – New Contact Technologies
Session 2 – High Temperature Probing
Session 3 – Improving Cost of Ownership
Session 4 – Standards and Methods
Session 6 – Parametric / Scribeline Probing
Session 8 – Array Array Probing
Session 9 – Challenges of RF Probing
2010-May-18~19
IEEE San Francisco Bay Area Nanotechnology Council 6th Annual Symposium “Nanotechnology: State of the Art & Applications” May 18-19, 2010, Santa Clara, CA
State of Nanotechnology
NanoBio Business and Policy
NanoBio Med Technology
Nano-Enabled Energy
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