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Tuesday afternoon continued the focus on Front-End Manufacturing. Great session on wafer map visual analytics with Janhavi Giri, Intel, using self-supervised learning for image analysis, detecting failures and optimizing manufacturing processes. Naor Alfassi, Applied Materials, spoke about ML-guided Electron Beam review for wafermap image classification and defect detection.
Janhavi Giri, PhD Naor Alfassi
Sessions on virtual metrology from Srividya Jayaram, Siemens, on high product mix; and Mike Yim, Gauss Labs, on high-volume, from Lab to Fab. In our experience, virtual metrology has led to massive time savings in product testing.
Srividya Jayaram Mike Young-Han Kim
One very fun and topical presentation was from Christoher Nguyen, Aitomatic, and Daisuke Oku, Tokyo Electron - announcing SemiKong, a new Open-Source Semiconductor LLM, jointly developed by Tokyo Electron, Aitomatic, FPT AI Center and the AI Alliance. This seems to be based on Meta's Llama3 with additional HTM context.
Christopher Cuong T. Nguyen Daisuke Oku
I just returned from visiting our HTM customers in Japan and Korea, where we showed our Spotfire Copilot running in Japanese and Korean .. and this presentation on SemiKong was a joy to see!!
Feel free to check out my latest blog on the Japan visit including a Spotfire Seminar with our partner NTT Com and customers including Texas Instruments, Tokyo Electron, Toshiba, Sony and many others.
MOC Blog on Spotfire Seminar in Tokyo, Japan
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Wednesday sessions in Smart Manufacturing focused on how AI/ML can optimize back-end semiconductor manufacturing process eg OEE, predictive and condition-based maintenance..
We are currently revamping our Spotfire OEE solution with Spofire Copilot, so this is quite timely. Shawn Sarbacker, Kulicke and Soffa, gave a nice presentation on Semiconductor Assembly.
Shawn Sarbacker
I really enjoyed the session on Zero Defect Manufacturing from Prasad Bachiraju, Onto Innovation. Totally aligned with our Spotfire work on visual data science for defect analysis .. interesting backend data integration .. we’ve been working on data federation and libraries of virtualization views for that part of the data and analytics flow.
Prasad Bachiraju
I also liked the IBM WatsonX GenAI session from Megan Arp and Francois Bernard - many similarities to our Spotfire Copilot e.g. they refer to the “Watson Orchestrator” in an analogous architecture to our Spofire Copilot Orchestrator. Their LLM is able to predict user intent when a technician reviews a ticket (i.e., query vs. task). Tasks are handled through custom and prebuilt skills training, while queries are handled through RAG.
Megan Arp Francois Bernard
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