MEMS Technology – From Fringe to Mainstream

MEMS Technology – From Fringe to Mainstream
by Daniel Nenni on 07-07-2025 at 10:00 am

MEMs 2025 SemiWiki

Last month, Lj Ristic delivered an invited talk on MEMS technology as a driving force at the Laser Display and Lighting Conference 2025, held at Trinity College Dublin.  His talk included a review of some major successes of MEMS industry. We used that occasion to talk to him and discuss some major achievements and the status of MEMS… Read More


CEO Interview with Yannick Bedin of Eumetrys

CEO Interview with Yannick Bedin of Eumetrys
by Daniel Nenni on 06-25-2025 at 10:00 am

Yannick Bedin CEO Eumetrys

Yannick founded EUMETRYS in 2012. He began his engineering career for Schlumberger in 1998 in West Africa and then became an applications engineer for the company from 2000 to 2004 in the semiconductor sector. In 2004, he joined Soluris as a field service engineer until 2006, then Nanometrics as a technical product support specialist.… Read More


Sensing (R)evolution: Sustaining Europe’s Leadership

Sensing (R)evolution: Sustaining Europe’s Leadership
by Admin on 06-10-2025 at 5:01 pm

Discover how the latest MEMS and imaging technologies are enabling next-level value creation across industries. Explore cutting-edge AI-enhanced sensing, data fusion, and their transformative impact on automotive, healthcare, and smart systems. Learn how these technologies are driving Europe’s leadership in Read More


Webinar: Advanced qualification of smart vibration sensors for optimizing IoT applications

Webinar: Advanced qualification of smart vibration sensors for optimizing IoT applications
by Admin on 03-26-2025 at 12:26 pm

Webinar content

Smart vibration sensors are used, among other things, in infrastructure monitoring in smart cities and in condition monitoring on machines and industrial plants. The sensors used are often based on microelectronic sensors (MEMS), which are tested as components in production but sometimes exhibit different

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CEO Interview: Rajesh Vashist of SiTime

CEO Interview: Rajesh Vashist of SiTime
by Daniel Nenni on 11-28-2024 at 10:00 am

Fotosbyt/san jose

Rajesh Vashist is SiTime’s Chairman and Chief Executive Officer and has served in this role since September 2007. Prior to joining SiTime, Mr. Vashist served as CEO and chairman of the board of directors of Ikanos Communications, Inc., a semiconductor and software development company, from July 1999 to October 2006. Mr. Vashist… Read More


Navigating Resistance Extraction for the Unconventional Shapes of Modern IC Designs

Navigating Resistance Extraction for the Unconventional Shapes of Modern IC Designs
by Nada Tarek on 10-15-2024 at 6:00 am

Fig1 MEMS design

The semiconductor industry is experiencing rapid evolution, driven by the proliferation of IoT applications, image sensors, photonics, MEMS applications, 3DIC and other emerging technologies. This growth has dramatically increased the complexity of integrated circuit (IC) design. One aspect of this complexity is the … Read More


A Webinar with Silicon Catalyst, ST Microelectronics and an Exciting MEMS Development Contest

A Webinar with Silicon Catalyst, ST Microelectronics and an Exciting MEMS Development Contest
by Mike Gianfagna on 05-17-2024 at 8:00 am

A Webinar with Silicon Catalyst, ST Microelectronics and an Exciting MEMS Development Contest

Most MEMS and sensor companies struggle to find an industrialization partner that can support early-stage research and help develop and transition unique concepts to high-volume production. The wrong partner means delays and increased development costs as the design moves between various facilities. Recently, Silicon … Read More


CEO Interview: Dr. J Provine of Aligned Carbon

CEO Interview: Dr. J Provine of Aligned Carbon
by Daniel Nenni on 11-17-2023 at 6:00 am

Cyclotron Road Cohort Five

J Provine, PhD, is the CEO and co-founder of Aligned Carbon, a startup that has developed a breakthrough synthesis and purification technology for aligned, semiconducting carbon nanotubes (CNTs) at wafer scale. His team believes that Aligned Carbon is the crucial missing piece in an industry that has long been hopeful of –… Read More


IC Layout Symmetry Challenges

IC Layout Symmetry Challenges
by Daniel Payne on 08-29-2022 at 10:00 am

1D symmetry

Many types of designs, including analog designs, MEMs, and image sensors, require electrically matched configurations. This symmetry has a huge impact on the robustness of the design across process variations, and its performance. Having an electrically matched layout basically means having a symmetric layout. To check … Read More


Where is the Monument of the Silicon Glen?

Where is the Monument of the Silicon Glen?
by Asen Asenov on 11-16-2021 at 10:00 am

NEC Plant Livingston

In 1991, I arrived in Glasgow to become a lecturer in Glasgow University, attracted by the Silicon Glen – the heart of semiconductor manufacturing in Europe. Here are few facts:

  • The larges semiconductor plant in Europe at that time was the NEC DRAM manufacturing site in Livingstone. When I visited the plant, I was mesmerized
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