September 24, 2015, Churchill Club Awards, Redwood City, CA—The Churchill Club presented their magical team award to Pixar Animation Studios for collaborative breakthroughs that resulted in an irresistible product or service. Goeffrey Moore talked with Ed Catmull from Walt Disney and Pixar Animation Studios. Moore noted that the Pixar team has to work at the…
April 21, 2015, RSA Conference, San Francisco—Chris Young from Intel talked about changing the game. Admittedly, change is hard and it is easier to maintain the status quo, but the current trust crisis precludes inaction. Malware is getting headlines and also the attention of the C-level executives all the way up to the President. In…
December 16, 2014, IEDM, Sn Francisco—Chih-Ming Hung from MediaTek talked about the changes in architectures to implement RF transceivers to minimize the effects of device variability and process variations. The added intelligence is still constrained by the need for some device matching and device level enhancements. The strong demand for high performance affordable handsets has…
July, 7, 2014, IMEC Technology Forum, San Francisco—Bobby Bell from KLA-Tencor talked about the exponentially changing technologies underlying the next generations of semiconductor manufacturing. The economics of the industry are presenting rapidly rising costs and are driving further industry consolidation. The trend of lower costs per gate is no longer valid as the process technologies…
July 7, 2014, IMEC Technology Forum, San Francisco—A panel considered the likelihood of an inflection point in the semiconductor industry. Debra Vogler from Instant Insights moderated the panel. Panelists were: John Chen from nvidia, Richard Gottscho from LAM Research, Terry Brewer from Brewer Science, Christophe Fouquet from ASML, and Luc Van den Hove from IMEC….
July 8, 2014, LETI Day, San Francisco—Various executives from the research consortium LETI talked about technology platforms to address future industrial challenges. Hughes Metras opened the event with comments on the facilities and research areas within the organization. Some key topics are in semiconductors and MEMS, which are supported by their 200 and 300mm wafer…
August 6, 2013, Emerging Display Technologies Conference, San Jose, CA-A panel moderated by Paul Semenza from NPD DisplaySearch looked at the developing technologies for touch sensors. The panel included Ola Wassvik from FlatFrog, Kelly Ingham from Cima Nanotech, Jim Tassone from Unipixel Displays, and Bob Senior form Canatu. Wassvik started with large area touch using…
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…
August 26, 2013, Hot Chips Conference, Stanford, CA—Robert Colwell, director of the Microsystems technology office at DARPA and former Intel manager, sees the end of Dennard scaling within the next decade, resulting in Moore’s Law becoming a purely economic function. The coming end of Moore’s Law is something that the industry looks at like watching…
August 6, 2013, Emerging Display Technologies Conference, San Jose, CA-Charles Annis from NPD DisplaySearch moderated a panel on materials and manufacturing. Panelists were Jeff Yurek from Nanosys, Margaret Hines from Nanoco Technologies, and Conor Madigan from Kateeva. Yurek noted that the NTSC broadcast color gamut is only 35 percent of possible colors in the human…