CASPA eLetter: No. 173, October 15, 2019Oct 15, 2019
President's Words Dear Members, CASPA’s will be held on this Saturday, Oct. 19, 2019. The total number of registered guests have reached over 1200. Thanks to our gift sponsors, in the annual conference, the drawing prizes including Amazon gift cards and one Huawei’s P30 Pro mobile phone, etc. For the dinner banquet, there will be even more prizes, with the major prizes being one Huawei P30 Pro Mobile phone and three round-trip airline tickets. If you have not registered yet, please do so soon...
CASPA eLetter: No. 172, September 30, 2019Sep 30, 2019
President's Words Dear Members, As the time approaches October, CASPA is entering its busiest month for preparing the 28th Annual Conference and Dinner Banquet. In this conference, we will talk about artificial intelligence (AI) implementation in a much broader view - from Semiconductor to software and its applications. In Moore's law era, the software will take advantage of the new technology node to accelerate and require little software change. However, in the transition to post Moore's law...
CASPA eLetter: No. 171, September 16, 2019Sep 16, 2019
President's Words Dear Members, Below are the updates of our recent events: 1. CASPA’s board of directors just elected our new vice president. to Dr. Xiaodong Zhang. Dr. Zhang will lead CASPA for the upcoming 2020-2021 calendar year. 2. Thanks for your participation for member’s survey. The survey will guide CASPA to better serve our members. The drawing winners are Jian Shi for a free lifetime CASPA membership and Shawming Ma for a free CASPA 2019 dinner banquet ticket. ! 3. For members who...
CASPA eLetter: No. 170, August 31, 2019
Aug 31, 2019
President's Words Dear Members, For the past two weeks, we just held two seminars. For ‘How to establish a startup’ seminar, we had very interesting discussions such as the difference between convertible notes and SAFE. Slides from both lawyers are available in the following link. We will also post slides for SIG seminar with Rambus which will be available next week. I also would like to remind everybody the following items: 1. To better serve you, please take a few minutes to fill out the the...
Aug 31, 2019
President's Words Dear Members, For the past two weeks, we just held two seminars. For ‘How to establish a startup’ seminar, we had very interesting discussions such as the difference between convertible notes and SAFE. Slides from both lawyers are available in the following link. We will also post slides for SIG seminar with Rambus which will be available next week. I also would like to remind everybody the following items: 1. To better serve you, please take a few minutes to fill out the the...
CASPA eLetter: No. 169, August 15, 2019
Aug 15, 2019
President's Words Dear Members, There are about two months away from CASPA’s 28th Annual Conference and Dinner Banquet (ACDB). We have a planning meeting at noon every Friday. If you want to be our volunteer, please let us know at . We also have 4 announcements: 1. CASPA is accepting scholarship applications today. 2. Board member election is open for registration. 3. ACDB Event Sponsorship program is activated. If your company wants to join CASPA or upgrade to existing sponsorship level, this...
Aug 15, 2019
President's Words Dear Members, There are about two months away from CASPA’s 28th Annual Conference and Dinner Banquet (ACDB). We have a planning meeting at noon every Friday. If you want to be our volunteer, please let us know at . We also have 4 announcements: 1. CASPA is accepting scholarship applications today. 2. Board member election is open for registration. 3. ACDB Event Sponsorship program is activated. If your company wants to join CASPA or upgrade to existing sponsorship level, this...
CASPA Members Survey, August 1, 2019
Aug 1, 2019
CASPA Members Survey with Reward In order to serve our Members, Corporate Sponsors, and Guests effectively, CASPA's Board of Directors are looking for ways to understand the needs of our Members and Guests. Please take a few minutes to fill this survey out as much as you can. Your input is valuable which would help us serving you better. We will pick the final winner each from Members and Non-Members group for the one submits the survey form, the last day to submit the survey is 9/1/2019,...
Aug 1, 2019
CASPA Members Survey with Reward In order to serve our Members, Corporate Sponsors, and Guests effectively, CASPA's Board of Directors are looking for ways to understand the needs of our Members and Guests. Please take a few minutes to fill this survey out as much as you can. Your input is valuable which would help us serving you better. We will pick the final winner each from Members and Non-Members group for the one submits the survey form, the last day to submit the survey is 9/1/2019,...
CASPA eLetter: No. 168, July 31, 2019
Jul 31, 2019
President's Words Dear Members, CASPA just held our signature event - Summer Symposium on July 13th. We have received many requests for presentation slides. Please download on our website We also organized the following 4 seminars, all on Wednesday nights. Please mark your calendar and register free for early bird and lifetime members. 1. August 14: Soft Skills Workshop on the Foundations of Interpersonal Skills - Emotional Intelligence and Impact Solutions 2. August 21: Law seminar on how to...
Jul 31, 2019
President's Words Dear Members, CASPA just held our signature event - Summer Symposium on July 13th. We have received many requests for presentation slides. Please download on our website We also organized the following 4 seminars, all on Wednesday nights. Please mark your calendar and register free for early bird and lifetime members. 1. August 14: Soft Skills Workshop on the Foundations of Interpersonal Skills - Emotional Intelligence and Impact Solutions 2. August 21: Law seminar on how to...
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...
