CASPA 2021 Annual Conference

Hong Hou
Corporate Vice President and GM of Connectivity Group
Intel Corporation

Hong Q. Hou is Corporate Vice President and General Manager of the Connectivity Group at Intel Corporation. He joined Intel in 2018, and his Group is responsible for delivering leadership hardware, software, and system products and technology, including Ethernet NICs and controllers, infrastructure processor units, Ethernet switches, silicon photonics, and high-performance fabrics. 

Hong has extensive technical and executive-level experience in the compound semiconductor and fiber-optic communication industries. Immediately prior to joining Intel, he was Executive Vice President and Chief Technical Officer for Fabrinet (NYSE: FN), an optical and electro-mechanical process technologies and manufacturing company. Prior to that, he served as President, Chief Executive Officer and a member of the board of directors of Emcore Corporation (NASDAQ: EMKR), a leading provider of compound semiconductor-based components and subsystems for the broadband, fiber optic, satellite and terrestrial solar power industries. 

Early in his career, he conducted research at AT&T Bell Laboratories and Sandia National Laboratories on semiconductor materials and devices. Hong holds a bachelor’s degree in Electronics Science from Jilin University, China and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, San Diego.

Speech Title: Silicon Photonics: An Ideal Integrated Platform for Optical Connectivity, Sensing, and Other Applications

Shai Cohen
Co-Founder & CEO of proteanTecs

Shai Cohen is an entrepreneur and industry veteran, with vast experience in building technology companies from the ground up.  Prior to founding proteanTecs, Shai co-founded Mellanox (NASDAQ: MLNX), a global leader of end-to-end InfiniBand and Ethernet interconnect solutions for servers and storage. He served as Mellanox’s Chief Operations Officer from 2011 and before that as VP of Operations and Engineering, from 1999. While at Mellanox, Shai oversaw all internal operations and production, and co-led the company’s research and development activities. He served as a member of the Mellanox Board of Directors from 2015 to 2018.  From 1989 to 1999, Shai worked at Intel Corporation, where he was a senior staff member in the Pentium processors department and a circuit design manager in the cache controllers group. Shai holds a B.Sc cum laude in Electrical Engineering from the Israel Institute of Technology, Technion.

Speech title: Electronics Health and Performance Monitoring from Production to the Field with Deep Data Analytics

Calista Redmond
CEO, RISC-V International

Calista Redmond is the CEO of RISC-V International with a mission to expand and engage RISC-V stakeholders, compel industry adoption, and increase visibility and opportunity for RISC-V within and beyond RISC-V International. Prior to RISC-V International, Calista held a variety of roles at IBM, including Vice President of IBM Z Ecosystem where she led strategic relationships across software vendors, system integrators, business partners, developer communities, and broader engagement across the industry. Focus areas included execution of commercialization strategies, technical and business support for partners, and matchmaker to opportunities across the IBM Z and LinuxOne community. Calista’s background includes building and leading strategic business models within IBM’s Systems Group through open source initiatives including OpenPOWER, OpenDaylight, and Open Mainframe Project. For OpenPOWER, Calista was a leader in drafting the strategy, cultivating the foundation of partners, and nurturing strategic relationships to grow the org from zero to 300+ members. While at IBM, she also drove numerous acquisition and divestiture missions, and several strategic alliances. Prior to IBM, she was an entrepreneur in four successful start-ups in the IT industry. Calista holds degrees from the University of Michigan and Northwestern University.

Speech title: RISC-V: The open Era of Computing

Borivoje Nikolic
Professor of EECS at UC Berkeley
Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Fellow,
IEEE Electron Devices Society (EDS) Fellow

Prof. Nikolic received the Dipl.Ing. and M.Sc. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Belgrade, Serbia, in 1992 and 1994, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of California at Davis in 1999. He lectured electronics courses at the University of Belgrade from 1992 to 1996. He spent two years with Silicon Systems, Inc., Texas Instruments Storage Products Group, San Jose, CA, working on disk-drive signal processing electronics. In 1999, he joined the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California at Berkeley, where he is now a Professor. His research activities include digital and analog integrated circuit design and VLSI implementation of communications and signal processing algorithms. He is co-author of the book Digital Integrated Circuits: A Design Perspective, 2nd ed, Prentice-Hall, 2003. Dr. Nikolić received the NSF CAREER award in 2003, College of Engineering Best Doctoral Dissertation Prize and Anil K. Jain Prize for the Best Doctoral Dissertation in Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of California at Davis in 1999, as well as the City of Belgrade Award for the Best Diploma Thesis in 1992. For work with his students and colleagues he has received the best paper awards at the IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference, Symposium on VLSI Circuits, IEEE International SOI Conference, European Solid-State Device Research Conference, and the ACM/IEEE International Symposium of Low-Power Electronics.

Speech title: Generating the Next Wave of Custom Silicon

Panel: Semiconductor Chip Shortage, Impact and Solutions

Moderator: 

Brandon Wang
VP, Synopsys

Brandon Wang is a Vice President at Synopsys, overseeing corporate level growth strategies, including M&A, strategic partnerships, and new ventures. Prior to that, he served various senior roles at Cadence and ARM in chief strategy office, marketing, solution engineering and R&D.
An Electrical and Computer Engineer by training, Brandon holds 10 patents, and has published at 20+ IEEE conferences, in journal papers and invited talks; He also has an MBA degree from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

Panelists:

Hou Hong
Corporate Vice President and GM of Connectivity Group, Intel

Hong Q. Hou is Corporate Vice President and General Manager of the Connectivity Group at Intel Corporation. He joined Intel in 2018, and his Group is responsible for delivering leadership hardware, software, and system products and technology, including Ethernet NICs and controllers, infrastructure processor units, Ethernet switches, silicon photonics, and high-performance fabrics. 
Hong has extensive technical and executive-level experience in the compound semiconductor and fiber-optic communication industries. Immediately prior to joining Intel, he was Executive Vice President and Chief Technical Officer for Fabrinet (NYSE: FN), an optical and electro-mechanical process technologies and manufacturing company. Prior to that, he served as President, Chief Executive Officer and a member of the board of directors of Emcore Corporation (NASDAQ: EMKR), a leading provider of compound semiconductor-based components and subsystems for the broadband, fiber optic, satellite and terrestrial solar power industries. 
Early in his career, he conducted research at AT&T Bell Laboratories and Sandia National Laboratories on semiconductor materials and devices. Hong holds a bachelor’s degree in Electronics Science from Jilin University, China and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, San Diego.

Anthony Le
VP of Marketing, Macronix America.

Anthony Le is Vice President of Marketing at Macronix America, a leading integrated device manufacturer in the non-volatile memory market with a full range of NOR Flash, NAND Flash, and ROM products. Anthony is in charge of analyzing marketing strategy for Macronix’s automotive business; leading the Global Ecosystem Team at Macronix that manages relationships with chipset, EDA and software partners; and developing global marketing strategies that include marketing communications, segment marketing, product marketing and development, and technical marketing.
He previously worked at Spansion (now Infineon) as senior director of segment marketing; Winbond as senior director of industrial and automotive marketing; Xilinx; and Hyundai Electronics America (now SK Hynix).
Anthony holds a BSEE degree from the University of California, Davis, and an MBA degree from University of Phoenix.

Robert Fan
President, SiliconMotion USA

Robert Fan is the President of Silicon Motion Inc. U.S.A. managing the business in the U.S. and Europe regions for Silicon Motion Inc. (NASDAQ:  SIMO) – a world leader in NAND storage controller solutions.   In this role, Robert oversees Sales, Marketing, Engineering and G&A functions while growing the business at 35% CAGR for the past eight years.  He is also responsible for corporate Marcom/PR, strategic partnerships and investments, and serves as the General Manager of the burgeoning graphics product line.   Prior to Silicon Motion, Robert served in executive positions at companies such as Spansion, IDT and two IC startups both exited with positive valuations.   Robert also spent 9+ years at Intel in sales, marketing, and management positions after four years of design engineering.  Robert is currently a board member of Monte Jade Science & Technology Association and volunteers as a mentor in the association’s esteemed mentorship program.  Robert advises startup companies and also speaks publicly on subjects ranging from technology, semiconductor market, leadership and sales.  He holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from the U.C. Berkeley, MSEE from Santa Clara University, and completed the General Management Executive Program at the University of Texas McCombs School of Business.

Emily Yang
Senior Vice President, Worldwide Sales and Marketing, Diodes Incorporated

Ms. Yang was appointed Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Marketing in 2017 and Senior Vice President in November 2020. She has been with the Company since the acquisition of Pericom Semiconductor Corporation in 2015, where she was Vice President of Global Sales. Prior to that, she held a number of sales management positions with Pericom since 1998, including: VP of Sales, NAEU, Contract Manufacturing Sales Director, Western Regional Sales Director, and Strategic Account Sales Director covering Asia, North America, and Europe. Ms. Yang holds a bachelor’s degree in Economics from the University of Toronto.

Jim Handy.
General Director at Objective Analysis

Jim Handy of Objective Analysis is a 35-year semiconductor industry executive and a leading industry analyst.  Following marketing and design positions at Intel, National Semiconductor, and Infineon, he became known for his technical depth, accurate forecasts, industry presence, and numerous market reports, articles, white papers, and quotes.  He posts blogs at www.TheMemoryGuy.com, and www.TheSSDguy.com.

Nana Tseng
Chief Procurement Officer of onsemi

Nana Tseng is Chief Procurement Officer of onsemi, a leading semiconductor company rooted in the combined heritage of Motorola and Fairchild.  Today, onsemi is driven to innovate intelligent power and sensing solutions serving a global market.  In her role, she is responsible for the procurement and supply partnership strategy covering all spectrums of the Company’s spend, from direct, indirect materials to corporate services.  Prior to joining onsemi, she was the Vice President of Sales at Advanced Semiconductor Engineering (ASE), the world’s largest provider of independent manufacturing services in assembly and test. Her passion in this industry comes from working with innovative companies committed to bringing the next revolutionary technology to the market.