CASPA eLetter: No. 167, July 15, 2019
Jul 15, 2019
President's Words Dear Members, Last Saturday's Symposium was very successful with full-house attendees. In this precious sunny and mild summer weekend, I thank you for choosing to attend our event instead of going for outdoor activities. There are a few takeaways in this symposium to share with you. 1. AI Semiconductor market value is growing exponentially. In 2025, it is estimated at $70+ billion in comparison to $4 billion this year! It is an exciting time to be in the semiconductor...
Jul 15, 2019
President's Words Dear Members, Last Saturday's Symposium was very successful with full-house attendees. In this precious sunny and mild summer weekend, I thank you for choosing to attend our event instead of going for outdoor activities. There are a few takeaways in this symposium to share with you. 1. AI Semiconductor market value is growing exponentially. In 2025, it is estimated at $70+ billion in comparison to $4 billion this year! It is an exciting time to be in the semiconductor...
CASPA eLetter: No. 166, July 10, 2019Jul 10, 2019
CASPA Events CASPA Summer Symposium: Breaking the Memory Wall, the AI Bottleneck Date: Saturday, Jul. 13, 2019 Time: 12:00pm – 5:10pm Venue: SEMI Milpitas, 673 S Milpitas Blvd, Milpitas, CA 95035 Attire: Business Casual Topic: Breaking the Memory Wall, the AI Bottleneck Agenda: 12:00pm – 1:00pm Registration & Networking 1:00 pm – 1:10pm Welcome from Semi & CASPA chairman 1:10 pm – 1:40pm Ajit Manocha, CEO, SEMI "Semiconductor Market Trends in the Digital Era" 1:40 pm – 2:10pm Steven Woo, Fellow...
CASPA eLetter: No. 165, June 30, 2019Jun 30, 2019
President's Words Dear Members, I recently attended the Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2019) and the International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA 2019). In CVPR, this year's record-breaking number exceeded 9,000 participants, and the number of papers received also exploded in exponential form, reaching 5,160. More than half (56%) of the papers submitted were from Asia, and only 25% of them were selected. I also saw a lot of papers on precise segmentation...
CASPA eLetter: No. 164, June 15, 2019
Jun 15, 2019
President's Words Dear Members, The M&A announcements that swept the semiconductor industry was at its high in 2015 and 2016. It slowed down in 2017, and then further eased in 2018. In the first half of 2019, we continue to see this momentum. There have been two cases this month. On June 2, Germany's Infineon announced the acquisition of Cypress for $10.1 billion. Infineon's goal is to seize the eighth place in the industry and enter the Internet of Things. The other case occurred on June 10...
Jun 15, 2019
President's Words Dear Members, The M&A announcements that swept the semiconductor industry was at its high in 2015 and 2016. It slowed down in 2017, and then further eased in 2018. In the first half of 2019, we continue to see this momentum. There have been two cases this month. On June 2, Germany's Infineon announced the acquisition of Cypress for $10.1 billion. Infineon's goal is to seize the eighth place in the industry and enter the Internet of Things. The other case occurred on June 10...
CASPA eLetter: No. 163, May 31, 2019
May 31, 2019
President's Words Dear Members, Contemporary computing systems are based primarily on von Neuman's architecture. Data is retrieved from memory, processed, and then stored back to memory. However, in today's big data processing and artificial intelligence applications, the speed gap between processor and memory computing is increasing no matter from cloud servers to local edge devices, creating a "memory wall" problem between memory and computers. Data movement is becoming a bottleneck in the...
May 31, 2019
President's Words Dear Members, Contemporary computing systems are based primarily on von Neuman's architecture. Data is retrieved from memory, processed, and then stored back to memory. However, in today's big data processing and artificial intelligence applications, the speed gap between processor and memory computing is increasing no matter from cloud servers to local edge devices, creating a "memory wall" problem between memory and computers. Data movement is becoming a bottleneck in the...
CASPA eLetter: No. 162, May 15, 2019
May 15, 2019
President's Words Regards, Danny Hua President and Chairman, CASPA Dear Members, I have four things to update in this newsletter. First, Happy Mother’s day! Many of you have just celebrated Mother’s Day last Sunday. Motherhood is one of the toughest jobs that entitled to two billion mothers in the world. We wish all of CASPA’s mothers have a healthy and happy life! Second, in addition to our regular seminars, CASPA is forming the Summer Symposium on July 13, 2019. Please mark your calendar. The...
May 15, 2019
President's Words Regards, Danny Hua President and Chairman, CASPA Dear Members, I have four things to update in this newsletter. First, Happy Mother’s day! Many of you have just celebrated Mother’s Day last Sunday. Motherhood is one of the toughest jobs that entitled to two billion mothers in the world. We wish all of CASPA’s mothers have a healthy and happy life! Second, in addition to our regular seminars, CASPA is forming the Summer Symposium on July 13, 2019. Please mark your calendar. The...
CASPA eLetter: No. 161, April 30, 2019
Apr 30, 2019
President's Words Dear Members, Last week, I attended the 25th TSMC North American Technology Symposium. It is a great venue to see old friends and former coworkers, as well as getting updates on technology. On the process node, TSMC continues to follow Moore’s law and break the industry's records every year such as 16FF+ (16nm FinFET plus) in 2015, 16FFC in 2016, N10 in 2017, N7 in 2018, and N5 in 2019. At this moment, TSMC’s Industry first 7nm EUV process is in volume production, and the most...
Apr 30, 2019
President's Words Dear Members, Last week, I attended the 25th TSMC North American Technology Symposium. It is a great venue to see old friends and former coworkers, as well as getting updates on technology. On the process node, TSMC continues to follow Moore’s law and break the industry's records every year such as 16FF+ (16nm FinFET plus) in 2015, 16FFC in 2016, N10 in 2017, N7 in 2018, and N5 in 2019. At this moment, TSMC’s Industry first 7nm EUV process is in volume production, and the most...
CASPA eLetter: No. 160, April 15, 2019
Apr 15, 2019
President's Words Dear Members, In the tech front, like a locomotive, semiconductor industry continues to drive and enable innovations across different fields. For examples, flexible-LED technology makes foldable-display smartphones possible. New CMOS image sensor enabled photography under extremely low-light conditions. We can take SLR quality pictures like milky-way galaxy photos using a smartphone. Plus, new Neuro-network processing technology makes AI applications booming. Google’s...
Apr 15, 2019
President's Words Dear Members, In the tech front, like a locomotive, semiconductor industry continues to drive and enable innovations across different fields. For examples, flexible-LED technology makes foldable-display smartphones possible. New CMOS image sensor enabled photography under extremely low-light conditions. We can take SLR quality pictures like milky-way galaxy photos using a smartphone. Plus, new Neuro-network processing technology makes AI applications booming. Google’s...
CASPA eLetter: No. 159, March 31, 2019
Mar 31, 2019
President's Words Dear Members, I have a few updates for this month. First in late March, CASPA held our 7th Education day at the Cadence building. The event was successful with over 100 attendees. We are grateful that Cadence provided their auditorium for us to host this event, and we also appreciate the help of our volunteers so that we could achieve our goal for this year. Second, for those who are not CASPA life time member yet, I'd like to invite you to join us today. Here are some of the...
Mar 31, 2019
President's Words Dear Members, I have a few updates for this month. First in late March, CASPA held our 7th Education day at the Cadence building. The event was successful with over 100 attendees. We are grateful that Cadence provided their auditorium for us to host this event, and we also appreciate the help of our volunteers so that we could achieve our goal for this year. Second, for those who are not CASPA life time member yet, I'd like to invite you to join us today. Here are some of the...
CASPA eLetter: No. 158, March 15, 2019
Mar 15, 2019
President's Words Dear Members, On March 9, CASPA held the Spring Symposium. We had full house attendees and very positive feedback including new technology concepts and business engagements. As an added benefit to our members, we made the presentation slides available to download here: 4 days later, we hosted a financial seminar on tax preparation and estate planning with trusts. Speaker’s humorous talk and lively Q&As reverberated around the entire room. The next upcoming event is Education...
Mar 15, 2019
President's Words Dear Members, On March 9, CASPA held the Spring Symposium. We had full house attendees and very positive feedback including new technology concepts and business engagements. As an added benefit to our members, we made the presentation slides available to download here: 4 days later, we hosted a financial seminar on tax preparation and estate planning with trusts. Speaker’s humorous talk and lively Q&As reverberated around the entire room. The next upcoming event is Education...
