San Francisco, United States - July 11, 2024

Storyline:
Experts in the healthcare profession have gathered with technologists and innovative companies in the semiconductor industry to explore ways to make medical technology smarter at the 2024 Semicon West conference in San Francisco.

Taking a long-term view of the industry, participants at Semicon seek to learn about the needs of a specific industry and collaborate on new systems to meet those demands.

At the conference, hundreds of companies touted the ways their innovations may help boost the production of one of the most important technologies in the world -- semiconductors.

Attendees are also discussing how semiconductors might take on a form factor that eliminates cumbersome wires, which could be transformational for some medical sensors.

European technology company STMicroelectronics and U.S. chemicals giant DuPont are working on a potential solution. They have created a cardiac patch that is waterproof and wearable for up to two weeks.

That would allow a doctor to monitor patients remotely for extended periods of time.

Ran Ruby Yan directs the health tech unit of Globalfoundries, a designer and manufacturer of semiconductors. She believes in the future that medical monitoring devices will move toward being contactless.

The solution she is proposing and working on is radar.

Shotlist:
San Francisco, USA - July 11, 2024:
1. Various of visitors at 2024 Semicon West conference;
2. Various of chips, high-tech products on display;
3. Dhruv Seshadri, associate professor, Bioengineering, Lehigh University, giving presentation;
4. Screen showing pictures of medical facilities;
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Dhruv Seshadri, associate professor, Bioengineering, Lehigh University (starting with shot 4):
"I believe that the future of health care involves the engineering of soft, flexible devices that recapitulate the same ICU-grade vitals in a remote and accurate manner for clinical decision-making purposes."
6. Attendees
7. Simon Dodd (R), director, New Businesses at STMicroelectronics, giving presentation;
8. Various of wearable healthcare device on display;
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Simon Dodd, director of New Businesses, STMicroelectronics (starting with shot 8/ending with shots 10-11):
"They have smart watches that monitor your heart rate and monitor other aspects of breathing and things like that. And they're sort of the simplest, most easy parts to start with. And we're trying to extend that and create almost body-area networks where you might have sensors all over your body monitoring different parts of you that is unobtrusive and continuous."
10. Screen showing powerpoint slide introducing wearable devices;
11. Wearable healthcare device on display;
12. Ran Ruby Yan, director, business unit, Globalfoundries, giving presentation;
13. Screen showing powerpoint slide introducing sensors;
14. Attendees;
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Ran Ruby Yan, director, business unit, Globalfoundries (starting with shot 14/partially overlaid with shot 16):
"The majority of the medical devices so far are contact. Even the optical sensor as a medical device, they contact your skin to making sure the information you are collecting is more accurate. However, if we want to enable it for even the majority of the population, [it] needs to be easy to use. That is one of the key factors. It has to be affordable, easy to use and easy to access."
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16. Screen showing powerpoint slide introducing sensors;
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17. Visitors at 2024 Semicon West conference;
18. Screen showing powerpoint slide introducing sensors;
19. SOUNDBITE (English) Ran Ruby Yan, director, business unit, Globalfoundries (starting with shot 18/partially overlaid with shot 20):
"We're getting closer and closer. For example, the vital signs monitor for radars is already being used in automotive, it's one of the child-present detection methods. The reason they can detect if it's a child or adult, is a human or a dog, is by receiving the vital signs information through radar. So this method is being validated in some other markets, and the same functionalities can be used for the medical market too."
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20. Various of screen showing powerpoint slide introducing sensors;
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21. Various of high-tech products on display.

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