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X-FAB Dresden opened its doors again a few weeks ago as part of the Long Night of Sciences Dresden 2024🌙🔬 and gave exciting insights into the world of microelectronics. Our highlights included: 🔍 Lab tours and clean room tours. More than 400 guests were able to take an exclusive look behind the scenes of our modern microchip production. 🖥️ Informative presentations on innovative products in which microchips made at X-FAB are used. 🔬 A look through the microscope: visitors experienced the world of semiconductors up close and learnt about the structure of wafers. 🖨️ 3D printing and equipment automation. 📸 Photos in cleanroom suits. 🎨 Creative activities for the younger visitors. Thanks to our #xfabulous team for making the night a success! 👏 We can't wait for next year's Long Night of Sciences! #xfab #xfabdresden #LongNightofSciences #Dresden #MINT

We are at Sensors Converge this week - North America’s Largest Electronics Event for Design Engineers! 🚀 Today is the last chance to meet our colleagues at booth number 949 in the Santa Clara Convention Center. 🫱🏻🫲🏻 Charles Hage, Randy Schwartz, Will Hunter and Stijn Sampermans are there to tell you more about our foundry solutions for 3D integration and wafer-level packaging (WLP), sensors, microfluidics and much more. On Monday, Stijn Sampermans, Business Line Manager MEMS Sensors, joined the workshop "Sensorizing With MEMS: Exploring the Latest in Products, Design, and Manufacturing" presenting X-FAB’s Microsystems offering: from MEMS to advanced packaging. #SensorsConverge #sensors #microsystems

Tomorrow at Leti Innovation Days in Grenoble (France) 👇 Christine Dufour, X-FAB's Microfluidics program manager, will join the "Tech for Health" session at #LetiDays by CEA-Leti and participate in a panel discussion about  "What are silicon's strengths for enabling technological leaps in healthcare?" Find the full agenda here: https://lnkd.in/gzqTaPPn #innovation #microfluidics

At last week's charity football match, X-FAB and MELEXIS were fighting for more than just goals - they were championing diversity, respect, and a good cause! 🤝⚽   The game ended in a 6-5 victory for Team X-FAB, but that wasn't the only highlight. 🏆 The two Erfurt sites of MELEXIS and X-FAB each donated €1,000 to Spirit of Football E.V. , which combines social and educational goals with the engaging power of sport. More than 200 people came out to cheer and help raise the total to €2,900. 🚀   Thanks to Marc Biron, Rudi De Winter, Jessica Völlger, and Volker Herbig for your support and presence. And a huge thanks to the players of both teams and the supporters. It was a great football evening!   Images: Sebastian Schmidt, Florian Hesse & Lea-Marie Altmann #xfabulous #spiritoffootball #charity #csr #sustainable

On Tuesday this week, all eyes 👀 were on Europe's biggest semiconductor hub: Silicon Saxony! The 18th Silicon Saxony Day took place in Dresden and more than 600 participants made use of the opportunity for networking, knowledge & technology transfer and an open exchange on chip technologies. Of course, we as X-FAB - with our strong presence in Dresden - were there as well. 📢 Michael Woittennek, CEO of X-FAB Dresden talked about the "European Semiconductor Ecosystem – how small players make an impact" during his keynote speech, emphasizing the fact that small players should focus on selling benefits and the purpose they fulfill rather than technical features, and pointing out that also artificial intelligence requires real-world signals. 💡Another type of signals, those created by light, were the topic of the presentation given by Joni Mellin, BL Manager Photonics, entitled "More than Photonics - Enabling photonics innovation beyond PICs". In his talk, he introduced the European photonixFAB project that aims to establish a European #photonics device value chain and initial industrial manufacturing capabilities and showcased X-FAB's microtransfer print-ready BCD- and RF-on-SOI technologies available for electronic chiplet designs. Our colleagues Ramona Fiedler, Stefan Ernst, Roberto Gärtner, Mirko Wittmaack and Thomas Zarbock were happy to welcome and talk to many visitors in person at our booth. #SiliconSaxonyDay2024 #EUInnovation

As a sponsor of the International SPAD Sensor Workshop (ISSW 2024) which takes place in Trento (Italy) next week, X-FAB is looking forward to co-presenting with IMMS Institut für Mikroelektronik- und Mechatronik-Systeme gemeinnützige GmbH (IMMS GmbH) on June 6 (Session 9). #SPADs #CMOS Alexander Zimmer Mirjam Skadell

📣 We are proud to be a sponsor of the 36th International Symposium on Power Semiconductor Devices and ICs next week in Bremen, Germany. It is the premier forum for technical discussion in all areas of power semiconductor devices, power integrated circuits, their hybrid technologies, and applications. Alexander Hölke, Senior Member of Technical Staff at X-FAB, will have a poster presentation about "Field Plate Engineering for Free Metal Routing Over Lateral HV Devices" as part of the Low Voltage Power Devices and Power IC Technology Session (Poster Session) on 05 June. Join this conference and meet our experts at our booth no.16. Further information can be found here: 👉🏻 https://www.ispsd2024.com/ #SemiconductorDevices #powerintegratedcircuits #PowerICTechnology

Last week, X-FAB hosted the kick-off meeting for the Design Initiative project DI-Meta-X funded by BMBF under “Design instrument for sovereign chip development with open source (DE:Sign)”. Innovations at chip level are required in order to design and manufacture increasingly customized, powerful and energy-saving semiconductor chips for a wide range of applications. A significant part of the expertise in the microelectronic value chain lies in the design of microchips and the software tools used for this, which is largely limited to a few established providers of chip design software. The aim of the DI-Meta-X project is to break through the barriers to innovation resulting from market segmentation and to make it easier for start-ups and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to enter the chip design market. The partners collaborating in the project cover various areas of the microelectronic value chain from semiconductor manufacturers, SMEs with expertise in the simulation of electromechanical systems, software development, design and testing of microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) as well as research institutions with expertise in semiconductor design. #Microelectronics, #ASIC, #OpenSource, #OpenROAD, #EDA, #DesignMethodology, #Semiconductors, #MEMS Technische Universität Dresden IMMS Institut für Mikroelektronik- und Mechatronik-Systeme gemeinnützige GmbH (IMMS GmbH), AMAC ASIC- und Mikrosensoranwendung Chemnitz, EDC Electronic Design Chemnitz GmbH, i-ROM, Fbe-asic GmbH, Continium Technologies, Semikron Danfoss Muralikrishna Sathyamurthy (Murali) Jörg Doblaski

[Press Release] X-FAB and SOITEC team up to offer SmartSiC™ at Lubbock plant, USA The partnership will bring power devices based on Soitec’s cutting-edge SmartSiC™ silicon carbide wafers to X-FAB’s extensive fabless client network. Sophie Le Guyadec, VP Procurement of X-FAB, states: “As the leading SiC foundry, we want to provide our customers the full range of opportunities to design innovative and robust SiC devices for electric vehicles, renewable power and industrial applications. To offer the most advanced silicon carbide processes and manufacturing capabilities, we jointly agreed to provide our customers easy access to Soitec’s innovative SmartSiC™ via a consignment model.” Read full press release here: https://lnkd.in/ebRpVUpd #SmartSiC #siliconcarbide #sicfoundry

What does diversity mean to you? 🏳️🌈 🌍 For us, diversity stands for openness, respect and tolerance across all our sites. It is about embracing the unique values, character traits, and perspectives that make each of us special. We believe that the greatest success comes from giving room for diversity and working together to achieve our shared goals. 🗝️ The diversity of our employees is the foundation of our success. It fosters innovation and creativity that will shape the future of X-FAB. WE live diversity. WE are UNITED IN DIVERSITY. 🩷 👉🏻 https://lnkd.in/ezcXPxJE #diversity #xfab #semiconductors #unitedindiversity This video was initiated by German X-FAB employees in light of the upcoming elections.