Churchill Club Magical Team Award
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...
View ArticleIntel RSA Keynote
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...
View ArticleDigitally-Intensive RF Transceivers in Highly Scaled CMOS
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...
View ArticleDeeper Collaboration – The Magic Beyond Yield at 1x nm and Beyond
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...
View ArticleR&D in a Consolidated Semiconductor Landscape Panel
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....
View ArticleLETI-CEA 2014 Technology Review
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...
View ArticleTouch Sensor Developments
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...
View ArticleIntel CEO Opens IDF 2013
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...
View ArticleChip Design After Moore’s Law Ends
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...
View ArticleMaterials and Manufacturing Panel
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,...
View ArticleFlat Display Panel Manufacturing
August 6, 2013, Emerging Display Technologies Conference, San Jose, CA-Charles Annis from NPD DisplaySearch presented the trends and markets for flat panel displays and their manufacture. Then...
View ArticleMastering Patterning Costs
July 8, 2013, IMEC Technology Forum, San Francisco—Kurt Ronse from Imec talked about mastering patterning costs for future technology nodes. The biggest problems are that the technical requirements do...
View ArticleScaling Beyond 10 nm
July 8, 2013, IMEC Technology Forum, San Francisco—An Steegen from Imec displayed the power, area, cost, and performance requirements for continuation of process scaling. The biggest challenge is that...
View ArticleLeti Research Reviews
July 9, 2013, Semicon West, San Francisco—Laurent Malier from Leti offered a view of the next decade and the drivers for technology. Semiconductors will be more important in the future as everything...
View ArticleISSCC Session 6 Medical and Sensor Technologies
February 18, 2013, ISSCC, San Francisco—Session 6 demonstrated emerging medical and sensor technologies. Contributors included KAIST in Korea, Masdar Institute of Science and Technology in UAE,...
View ArticleAutodesk Implements Innovation
November 13, 2012, A. Richard Newton Global Technology Leaders' Conference, UC Berkeley—Carl Bass from Autodesk presented a view of engineering innovation by design. After a short video, he said that...
View ArticleOLED Advances
August 14, 2012, Emerging Display Technology Conference, Santa Clara, CA—G. Rajeswaran form Moser Baer Technologies presented the advances in OLED technology for displays and lighting. The latest...
View ArticleVertical MOTFT
July 11, 2012, FlexTech Alliance, San Francisco—Shelby Nelson from Eastman Kodak described ongoing experiments with equipment, materials, and process design to create vertical thin-film transistors....
View ArticleAtomic Layer Deposition
July 11, 2012, FlexTech Alliance, San Francisco—Ritwik Bhatia from Cambridge NanoTech described the details of processing engineered materials in atomic layer granularity. This process allows for the...
View ArticleMEMS on the way to $Trillion/Trillion Units
May 23, 2012 - The MEMS Tech Symposium had its theme presentation on the MEMS market reaching the $Trillion mark in the future, from Janusz Bryzek of Fairchild Semi. The presentation focused on the...
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