February 23, 2015, ISSCC, San Francisco—Sehat Sutardja from Marvell Semiconductor noted that SoC designs are getting too complicated due to the freezing of the underlying computer architectures. The future of design will have to change to allow for more innovation and flexibility for the end products. The costs of SoC mask sets are doubling with…
February 13, 2014, Berkeley EECS Annual Research Symposium, UC-Berkeley, CA—Ana Arias presented work on flexible electronics that can change forms and shapes to provide different measurements for health, medicine, and imaging. These platforms will use other substrates than standard semiconductors, but may be hybrid integration of organic and silicon circuits. Flexible circuits usually are processed…
September 10, 2013, IDF, San Francisco—Brian Krzanich declared that it is different being at IDF as the CEO for Intel. Nevertheless, the company continues to move along and innovate. The increasing rates of change and innovation now exceed those of the last 30 years. The company’s vision and strategy is to continue on the 40-year…
May 1, 2013, Neuro-Gaming Conference, San Francisco—Closing the loop from monitoring to feedback can be used to track, understand, and boost attention and cognitive performance of players. A panel moderated by Zack Lynch from the Neurotech Industry Organization looked at opening up new avenues for experience development. The panel members were Mike Oxley form Foc.us,…
May 9, 2012, All About The Cloud Conference, San Francisco—William McNee from Saugatuck Technology presented the key trends in cloud adoption. The cloud is no longer a passing fad, but an inevitability. Already there is high awareness within the IT community, and had a high adoption among the trendsetters. The early adopters are looking for…
November 15, 2011, Nanotechnology Council Symposium, Santa Clara, CA–Hughes Metras from LETI described research results for nanotechnology optical communications. The photonics on silicon and 3-D integration in CMOS will help to address the power issues. Leti is a research organization in Grenoble, France that is working on some of the main challenges facing industry and…
March 15, 2011, ISQED, Santa Clara, CA—Eshel Haritan, vice president from Synopsys described the benefits of developing systems by starting with virtual prototypes. This technology allows the early matching of hardware and software in a system design to speed up the design process and enable greater abilities for verification and debug. One challenge in systems-level…
March 15, 2011, ISQED, Santa Clara, CA—Fabian Pease, professor at Stanford talked about “how much longer can Moore’s law hold?” in his keynote talk. The amount of integration is not just the number of transistors and wiring that lithography and processing can put on a piece of silicon. Historically, integration has always been to reduce…
March 1, 2011, OTTCon, San Jose, CA– a panel moderated by Colin Dixon from the Diffusion Group considered some of the issues and challenges facing the television industry. The panel was comprised of Ian Valentine from Woomi, Kevin Simon from Logitech, SV Vasudevan from Cisco Systems, Russ Schafer from Yahoo, and Mark Benscheidt from Sezmi….
December 9, 2010, 3-D Architectures for Semiconductor Integration and Packaging conference, Burlingame, CA—Hans Stork, group vice president and CTO at Applied Materials described the technology landscape for TSVs and the drivers and applications that will use these connections. The baselines for the different unit processes and their integration into a manufacturing flow for TSV last…