Semiconductor advances have powered nearly every aspect of technology for over 50 years and continue to push the limits of computing performance. This talk will discuss the most recent advances and what’s next in semiconductor technology. IBM Research has maintained leadership in logic technology, and recently announced a breakthrough that will push scaling to the 2nm node and beyond. The trend will continue, with more innovations in microelectronics increasing functionality, advances in packaging and heterogeneous integration, AI hardware, supercomputers (HPC), and quantum computing. Mukesh will share some of the advances in AI cores for both digital and analog compute, which are expected to deliver huge improvements in performance and efficiency without sacrificing accuracy. The talk will also include a journey through IBM’s Quantum ecosystem, including both the hardware and the community which supports its rapid development. The combination of quantum computing and semiconductor technology advances for HPC will be the creation of unseen compute power, dramatically accelerating the rate of scientific discovery, with a profound impact on science and industry.
Wednesday, November 3, 2021
What's Next in Computing
Growth, crises and everything in between are fueling ever more demand for semiconductors. Technical challenges are increasingly complex. R&D costs are escalating. Scaling is taking longer. Talent is scarce. Applications are proliferating. New market entrants are emerging. Business models are evolving. Change is constant. And while none of this is new to the semiconductor industry, the way we respond to change, the way we innovate, must. The panel will explore strategies to accelerate innovation – from talent and culture to invention and R&D methods, to incubating and scaling new technologies to commercialize products and services faster throughout the semiconductor ecosystem.
Moderator: Lubab Sheet-Davis, Vice President, Strategy and Innovation in the Office of the Chief Technology Officer, Lam Research
Panelists:
- Ravi Agarwal, Technical Sourcing Manager, Facebook
- Janice Golda, Senior Director, Lithography Strategic Sourcing, Intel Corporation
- Tsu-Jae King Liu, Dean and Roy W. Carlson Professor of Engineering, College of Engineering, University of California, Berkeley; Member, Board of Directors, Intel Corporation
- Omkaram Nalamasu, Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Applied Materials