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Is Fear Holding Back The Chip Industry’s Future In The Cloud?
The semiconductor industry is at the cutting edge of technology – so why is it still so nervous about the cloud?
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Position Vacant: Are Chip Companies Really Running Out Of People?
The semiconductor industry worries that it won’t have enough workers for its fabs – could disruptive tech help solve this problem?
![A Hot Topic: What Makes Scheduling the Diffusion Area so Challenging? [Tech Paper Review]](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/296d5d_4b95d6415ac940d3976e24177893c706~mv2.png/v1/fill/w_473,h_355,fp_0.50_0.50,enc_auto/296d5d_4b95d6415ac940d3976e24177893c706~mv2.png)
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A Hot Topic: What Makes Scheduling the Diffusion Area so Challenging? [Tech Paper Review]
The diffusion area is particularly important to the smooth operation of a wafer fab.
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Looking into the future: how advanced optimization can manage timelink constraints (Part 1)
Timelinks are one of the most challenging a aspects of a wafer fab to navigate and significantly increase the complexity of scheduling it.
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Could Reinforcement Learning play a part in the future of wafer fab scheduling? [tech paper review]
A common example of RL is self-driving cars, but its easy to see how it could be successful in other environments, such as a wafer fab.