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Silicon wafer shipments may set record this year — SEMI
MILPITAS, Calif. —Global silicon wa- The growth is expected to temper in 2023
fer shipments are projected to in- due to challenging macroeconomic con-
crease 4.8% year-over-year in 2022 ditions but is forecast to rebound in the
to a record high of nearly 14,700 mil- years that follow on strong demand for
lions of square inches (MSI), SEMI semiconductors used in data center, auto-
reported in its annual silicon shipment motive and industrial applications.
forecast for the semiconductor indus- semi.org
try.
Math problem (from 27) where they would jot down their math-
ematical proofs on sheets of paper.
That meant Kummer was right—something
funny was going on with his sums for 45 Based on Health-Brown’s work
primes. But proving why this is the case Their solution was based on work by Roger
would have to wait until last year when Heath-Brown of the University of Oxford,
Dunn and Radziwill fi nally fi gured it out. who had seen a talk by Patterson at the
University of Cambridge in the late 1970s.
“The bias seen with a few numbers is like
having a physically impossible coin that is Heath-Brown and Patterson teamed up to
slightly weighted toward heads, but be- work on the problem, and then, in 2000,
comes less and less so the more often you Heath-Brown developed a tool known as a
fl ip it,” Radziwill explains. cubic large sieve to help prove Patterson’s
conjecture. He got close but the complete
Working together solution remained out of reach.
The two Caltech researchers decided to
work together to try to crack the problem of Dunn and Radziwill cracked the problem
Patterson’s conjecture about two years ago. when they realized that the sieve wasn’t
working properly, or had a “barrier” that
They had not spent much time together they were able to remove. caltech.edu
on campus due to the pandemic, but they
bumped into each other in a parking lot in
Pasadena and got to talking. They decided Need greater name recognition?
to meet in parks to work on the problem, Advertise in TAP TIMES!
