Bridging the Frontier
Archive for November, 2024
Happy Thanksgiving from the ESD Alliance, a SEMI Technology Community!
Friday, November 22nd, 2024Honoring Dr. Jason Cong During the Phil Kaufman Award Ceremony and Banquet
Tuesday, November 19th, 2024The recent Phil Kaufman Award Ceremony and Banquet celebrating UCLA’s Dr. Jason Cong and his contributions to the industry at Hayes Mansion in San Jose was a lively and enjoyable evening.
Caption: A smiling Jason Cong addresses attendees.
I invite you to check out more photos from the evening at: https://tinyurl.com/34j7z6m4 or watch the presentation ceremony video at: https://tinyurl.com/v9dazbs7.
Nominations Open for Next Year’s Awards
A reminder that the nomination portal is open through Friday, May 30, for both the Phil Kaufman Award and the Phil Kaufman Hall of Fame sponsored by the Electronic System Design Alliance (ESD Alliance), a SEMI Technology Community, and the IEEE Council on Electronic Design Automation (CEDA).
The awards recognize individuals whose contributions made an impact within electronic system design (ESD) in business, industry direction, promotion, technology and engineering, educational or mentoring. Impartiality is provided to all nominees, without regard to race, gender, age or national origin.
PDF Solutions’ John Kibarian on Bringing Semiconductor Manufacturing and Design Closer
Monday, November 4th, 2024My bylined blog post below with John Kibarian of PDF Solutions originally appeared on the SEMI website.
John Kibarian, CEO and founder of PDF Solutions and a member of the ESD Alliance (ESDA) Governing Council, is a keen observer of the semiconductor ecosystem. Since PDF Solutions sits between design and manufacturing, Kibarian shared unique perspectives on both in a recent discussion.Smith: What trends are you seeing in the semiconductor industry. Are there any that surprise you?
Kibarian: We see several trends that have been going on for quite a while.
As much as we hear Moore’s Law is dead, there’s still a strong drive to get to advanced nodes. The benefits are harder to achieve and require more than geometry scaling, but demand for these advanced nodes continues to grow. Another emerging trend is the need for insatiable compute power in data centers to support the explosion in AI applications. In recent history, the mobile phone market has been the key driver of the push to new advanced nodes, but that is changing as the performance needs of data centers and AI applications are now driving the shift.
