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...
CASPA eLetter: No. 157, February 28, 2019Feb 28, 2019
President's Words Dear Members, CASPA just held a press conference on Wednesday to promote our Spring Symposium - AI of things. Market research predicted that there would be 55 billion IoT devices deployed by 2025. It is equivalent to more than 6 devices per person on earth. By 2022, there will be more than 80% enterprise IoT projects that will include an AI components, comparing to merely 10% today. CASPA is deligated to inform our members about the semiconductor industry’s mega trend. In this...
CASPA eLetter: No. 156, February 15, 2019Feb 15, 2019
President's Words Dear Members, Our first Entrepreneurship seminar in 2019 will take place on this Wednesday night. Please register soon. We thank our sponsor Silvaco for letting us use their facility. CASPA’s symposium team also finalized Spring Symposium’s agenda. We will talk about AIoT on Saturday afternoon, March 9, 2019. We invited industry experts in the fields of AIoT market analysis, hardware, applications, and academic research. We also thank SanDisk/WDC for using their Auditorium at...
CASPA eLetter: No. 155, January 31, 2019
Jan 31, 2019
President's Words Dear Members, We just hosted two soft skill seminars in the beginning of 2019. We are in planning for the next events as follows so please mark your calendar: 1. 2/20/2019 Wednesday: Entrepreneurship Seminar I 2. 2/27/2019 Wednesday: Immigration and Trade law Seminar. 3. 3/09/2019 Saturday: Spring Symposium 4. 3/13/2019 Wednesday: Financial Seminar I: Tax Preparation 5. 3/30/2019 Saturday: Education day Also, for those who want to participate for board election and scholarship...
Jan 31, 2019
President's Words Dear Members, We just hosted two soft skill seminars in the beginning of 2019. We are in planning for the next events as follows so please mark your calendar: 1. 2/20/2019 Wednesday: Entrepreneurship Seminar I 2. 2/27/2019 Wednesday: Immigration and Trade law Seminar. 3. 3/09/2019 Saturday: Spring Symposium 4. 3/13/2019 Wednesday: Financial Seminar I: Tax Preparation 5. 3/30/2019 Saturday: Education day Also, for those who want to participate for board election and scholarship...
CASPA eLetter: No. 154, January 15, 2019Jan 15, 2019
President's Words Dear Members, CASPA is planning a series of seminars. In January, we will have two soft-skill seminars: On 1/23/19, CASPA, CAISS, and CIE will jointly host a seminar on the topic of “Negotiation and Reducing Stress in Workspace.” It is free for the first 40 registrants, so register soon. On 1/30/19, the seminar topic is “Critical Thinking Skills Applied in Current Events Analysis.” This is the first of the 10 series in the leadership development seminars tailored for CASPA...
CASPA eLetter: No. 153, December 31, 2018Dec 31, 2018
President's Words Dear Members, CASPA is planning a series of seminars. In January, we will have two soft-skill seminars: On 1/23/19, CASPA, CAISS, and CIE will jointly host a seminar on the topic of “Negotiation and Reducing Stress in Workspace.” It is free for the first 40 registrants, so register soon. On 1/30/19, the seminar topic is “Critical Thinking Skills Applied in Current Events Analysis.” This is the first of the 10 series in the leadership development seminars tailored for CASPA...
