The Common Platform Technology Forum 2012 took place at the convention center in  Santa Clara, CA on March 14th.  The Common Platform is an alliance of Samsung, IBM and GLOBALFOUNDRIES to deliver foundry services using the same silicon platform.   I had the pleasure of listening to the Keynote addresses in the morning and visit the Partner Pavilion in the afternoon to see all the ecosystem partners for the Common Platform.  Since it was “PI day” (3/14), we enjoyed pie-on-a-stick at break time between program events.   You can see what that looks like in the photo gallery below.

Follow the links to listen to each of the Keynotes:

Dr. Gary Patton, Vice President of Semiconductor Research and & Development Center, IBM spoke on  “Is Scaling Over? or Is there a Future in Silicon and Beyond?”

Subramani Kengeri, Head of Advanced Technology Architecture, Office of the CTO, GLOBALFOUNDRIES spoke on “Winning Together – Driving Innovation through Strategic Collaboration”

Dr. Jong Shik Yoon, Senior Vice President of Semiconductor R&D, Samsung spoke on “3D Device Technologies – Opportunities and Challenges”

Simon Segars, Executive Vice President and General Manager, Physical IP Division, ARM spoke on “Collaborative Scaling to 14nm and Beyond”

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