Our Mission is to Provide theHighest Quality Professional Development Courses and Consulting Services Available in theSemiconductor Industry.

Our associates are world-class professionals with decades of real-world, hands-on experience in leading edge semiconductor technologies and who offer real solutions to your development and manufacturing problems.

Our courses offer a unique, highly effective instructional design - we deliver an interactive classroom experience with real-world case studies, and state-of-the-art technical content that is profusely illustrated.

Our courses are designed for effective professional development of technical professionals in the semiconductor industry, both new and experienced:

• Process Development & Process Integration Engineers & Scientists
• Process Equipment Marketing, Applications, & Product Development Managers, Engineers, & Scientists
• Materials Supplier Marketing, Applications, & Product Development Managers, Engineers, & Scientists
• Fabless Design Engineers and Managers; Foundary Interface Engineers and Managers
• Process Engineers & Scientists
• Device Engineers & Scientists
• Semiconductor Manufacturing Engineers & Managers
• IC Product Engineering or Marketing Personnel
• VLSI Design Engineers

Jerry Healey

Jerry Healey has been a technical professional in the semiconductor industry for 30 years, 8 years of which were spent as a Device Engineer at Motorola SPS (NXP Semiconductor). He was formerly an instructor for UC Berkeley Extension (College of Engineering) and was also employed as a Process Integration Engineer at both Sematech and the Advanced Technology Development Facility (ATDF), where he worked on advanced technology node development.

He is a renowned lecturer in the field of silicon processing, and his areas of expertise include process integration, technology transfer of new processes from R&D into manufacturing, Nanowire and FinFET fabrication. His audiences remember him for the breadth of his knowledge regarding semiconductor manufacturing, his engaging lecture style, and the insightful color graphics he uses to illustrate his lectures.

An award winning public speaker, Mr. Healey has taught numerous courses to thousands of practicing engineers and scientists over the past 15 years. He has also authored numerous papers in the field of silicon processing, and is currently the president of Threshold Systems, a firm that provides consulting services and technical training seminars to the semiconductor industry.

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Moshe Preil

Dr. Moshe Preil is a world-class lithographer with over 30 years of experience in the field. He has worked at AMD, Luminescent, ASML and was the Manager of Emerging Lithography Technologies at Global Foundries. Currently he is the Senior Technical Manager, Product Strategy at Carl Zeiss SMT. He has lead teams tasked with investigating state-of-the-art Lithography tools and processes such as Directed Self Assembly (DSA) and e-Beam Direct Write (EBDW) as well as managed an EUV lithography tool. A dramatic and engaging public speaker, Dr. Preil has taught numerous courses on the subject of optical lithography, has published extensively in this field, and is widely regarded as a gifted and inspiring instructor.

Dick James

Dick James is the Fellow Emeritus for TechInsights, a Canadian reverse engineering company that specializes in semi¬conductors and electronic systems.

Dick joined TechInsights predicessor, Chipworks, in 1995 and acts as a consultant to TechInsights’ staff and customers, dealing with the microstructural characterization of devices, both process and packaging. He has over 40 years’ experience in process development, design, manufacturing, packaging and reverse engineering of semiconductor devices and is a world authority on the interpretation and analysis of Scanning and Transmission Electron Micrographs.

He is also a much sought-after speaker at technical conferences and a popular blogger at TechInsights.com, Elec¬troIQ.com, and numerous other publications.

Joe Steinberg

Joe Steinberg is a former Vice-President at Freescale Semiconductor and has 25 years of experience encompassing all aspects of the semiconductor industry. He has directed the start-up of fabs in both China and Brazil, and spent six years in Taijing China as the General Manager of the Motorola MOS 17 fabrication facility. In this position he was responsible for the start up and operation of the first 200mm wafer fabrication factory in China, managed the Assembly and Test operation, and served as the Senior Executive for Motorola Semiconductor in China, as well as the Managing Director for the XiQing Integrated Manufacturing Site.

In addition, Mr. Steinberg is a skilled negotiator and has provided consulting services for companies seeking to access the global marketplace, particularly in China, India, Southeast Asia, and Brazil.

Most recently Mr. Steinberg advised on the definition of a modern industrial park in Brazil and worked with a Brazilian start-up semiconductor manufacturer to establish a supply chain for spare and consumable parts.

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