SEMICON West 2016

Silicon Innovation Forum: Startups & New Ventures (Room Innovation and IoT Theater, North Hall)

Connecting Strategic Investors with ‘the next big idea’, the Start Up Forum connects new and emerging companies with the industry's leading strategic investors to create a new innovation engine for the semiconductor industry.

Hear presentations from start up companies seeking investment capital.  Examples of exciting new technologies presented at last year’s event:

  • Silicon thermo-electronic technology enabling wearable devices to operate using energy from body heat
  • Low cost, 3D printing technology for mass production
  • CMP slurries with nano-sized contact release capsules to enable planarization of high aspect ratio structures
  • Power management IC technology with reduced footprint and thickness
  • Sensors on Silicon Germanium capable of detecting a broader range of the IR spectrum
  • Radically new, biomedical applications for semiconductor technology