Hitchhiker`s guide to Technology Innovation in the Age of Generative AI, Digital Twin Technology, PPACe, Quantum
ABSTRACT
The pace of technology advancement seems to have picked up a few notches in the past several years. It all seems to have started with Covid-19 when vaccines were developed at speeds previously deemed impossible. We now have: digital twins, generative AI, quantum computing as well as the “classical” process technology boosters like EUV, high NA, hyper NA(?), very very advanced 3D packaging, all with paradigm shifting potential for our industry. Throw on top of that geopolitical “difficulties”, supply chain issues, environmental impact of undesirable materials such as PFAS and the result can only be described, simply, as chaotic at best. So, for the next 25 minutes or so, I would like to meander through the hurdles that we face together as we help the industry reach the $1T mark in the next decade, give or take a few years.
BIOGRAPHY
Dr. Akihisa (Aki) Sekiguchi currently serves as Corporate Fellow of Tokyo Electron Limited`s Corporate Innovation Division. Aki is responsible for planning and executing worldwide alliance strategy for the division including programs related to AI and quantum computing.
He is currently on SEMI`s Board of Industry Leaders and is a member of the SEMI CTO Forum representing TEL.
In previous roles, he has led Corporate Marketing and Corporate Technology Development at TEL as the VP and GM.
Prior to joining TEL in 2007, he worked for IBM Microelectronics Division for 17 years. As part of Semiconductor Research and Development Center, he worked on the development of FEOL, MOL, and BEOL processes and semiconductor production equipment that enabled IBM`s DRAM and SOI based logic technologies. During his last three years with IBM, he was responsible for process technology transfer from IBM to Sony (used in Play Station 3).
Aki earned his Ph.D. in Applied Physics from Columbia University, M. Eng. and B.S. in Engineering Physics from Cornell University, and an MBA in Finance from Stern School of Business (New York University, while working for IBM). His doctoral thesis was on experimental plasma physics for thermonuclear fusion.
Education:
- M. Phil. & Ph.D. Columbia University, Applied Physics
- B.S. & M. Eng. Cornell University, Engineering Physics
- M.B.A. Finance New York University, Stern School of Business