CASPA 2022 Annual Conference (Online) and Dinner Banquet

CASPA 2022 Annual Conference and Dinner Banquet

Computing, Connectivity & Storage

CASPA invites you to attend our 2022 Virtual Annual Conference on Saturday, October 15th, 2022 via Zoom. This Conference is a signature annual event for CASPA and has been well attended by the semiconductor professionals and executives from the Bay Area and worldwide.

Annual Conference Afternoon Session <Online>

Date: October 15th, 2022 Saturday

Venue: Zoom

Time: 12:30pm-4:30pm PDT

For registration, please go to click here.

Join Zoom Meeting https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81506714742?pwd=eEgzbjhtY3RIZHdwR2pNRlJMSlU4QT09

Dinner Banquet

CASPA will also hold an in-person dinner banquet at Santa Clara Convention Center, Oct. 15, 2022. If you are interested, please find the details and register at the following link:

Date: October 15th, 2022 Saturday

Time: 5:15pm-9:15pm PDT

For registration, please go to click here.

Rene Haas

Chief Executive Officer, ARM

Rene was appointed Chief Executive Officer and to the Arm Board in February 2022. Prior to being appointed CEO, Rene was President of Arm’s IP Product Groups (IPG) from January 2017.

Rene joined Arm in October 2013 as Vice President of Strategic Alliances and two years later was appointed to the Executive Committee and named Arm’s Chief Commercial Officer.

Before joining Arm, Rene held several applications management, applications engineering and product engineering roles, including seven years at NVIDIA as vice president and general manager of its computing products business. Prior to NVIDIA, Rene held executive roles at Scintera Networks and Tensilica.

Rene serves on the boards of Computacenter and Mythic and is based in Silicon Valley, U.S.

Rene earned his Bachelor of Science in electrical and electronics engineering from Clarkson University

Yan Li

VP, Western Digital

received her B.S. degree in Modern Physics from the University of Science and Technology of China. She received an M.S. and Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from Lehigh University in Pennsylvania, USA.

In 1998, she joined SanDisk Corporation, Sunnyvale, CA, working on Flash Memory Technology. She led teams that designed many generations of NAND flash memory, including the industry’s first 3 bits per cell NAND memory, and brought them into mass production. She has won the Lewis Winner Award for best paper at International Solid State Circuit Conferences (ISSCC) in 2008 and 2012. She is awarded to be the Super Woman of Flash in 2022 Flash Memory Summit. She is currently a Vice President for memory design, leading the advanced 3D NAND design, as well as other non-volatile memories and new innovation initiatives. She has created many innovative ideas to improve NAND products, and holds more than 200 patents.

Bill En

VP, AMD

26 years of experience in the Semiconductor Industry ranging from silicon wafer R&D, process technology, circuit design and foundry technology with over 65 patents and 30 publications. He graduated from Univ. of California Berkeley with a Ph.D in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences in 1996. He is currently Corporate Vice President at Advanced Micro Devices overseeing Foundry technology from initial R&D through production for all AMD products.

Mohamed Awad,

VP of IoT & Embedded, ARM

Mohamed Awad is the vice president of IoT and Embedded at Arm. He and his team work closely with OEMs, silicon partners, tools and the software ecosystem to ensure Arm is defining and developing solutions that meet the ever-changing requirements of the IoT and embedded markets. Before joining the IoT team, Mohamed was vice president of marketing for the Infrastructure Line of Business at Arm where he was responsible for driving go-to-market strategy, ecosystem development, and product marketing across the business unit including for Arm’s infrastructure platform, Arm Neoverse.

Prior to joining Arm, Mohamed spent 10 years in various leadership roles at Broadcom including establishing the Mixed Signal Asic Products (MSAP) division and building Broadcom’s security and mobile payments business from the ground-up. Before Broadcom, Mohamed served in various leadership roles at Ember Corporation, an early IoT startup, where he most notably founded their European subsidiary, and held positions at Lucent Technologies, Nortel Networks, and Avici Systems, where he led the development of various products, including core terabit routers and top-of-rack ethernet switches.

Manmeet Walia,

Product Marketing Director, Synopsys

Manmeet Walia is a Director of Product Marketing for Mixed-Signal PHY IP at Synopsys. He brings more than 20 years of experience in product marketing, product management and system engineering covering ASSP, ASIC, and IP products for broad range of applications. Manmeet holds a Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from University of Toledo, and an MBA from San Diego State University.

Rodrigo Liang

CEO and co-founder, SambaNova Systems

Prior to joining SambaNova, Rodrigo was responsible for SPARC Processor and ASIC Development at Oracle. He led the engineering organization responsible for the design of state-of-the-art processors and ASICs for Oracle’s enterprise servers.

Renxin

VP, Hardware Engineering at Untether AI

Renxin is a technology executive with 20+ years of engineering and management experience, encompassing AI accelerators, CPU’s, FPGA’s, and multimedia SOCs. Renxin has a proven, successful track record of building organizations and delivering products at both startups and large corporations.

Renxin is currently VP Hardware Engineering at Untether AI, a leader in AI acceleration. Renxin was the Chief of Staff to CEO Lip-Bu Tan at Cadence Design Systems prior to Untether. Before Cadence, he was the first VP of Engineering at SiFive, a leader in RISC-V solutions. Renxin spent most of his career at Altera, where he led design and verification for multiple generations of FPGA’s, culminating in having overall responsibility for Stratix 10, the first flagship family using Intel process. Renxin started his career at ESS Technology and was a co-founder/acting VP of Engineering at Centrality Communications, which was acquired by SiRF.

Renxin holds a BSEE and MSEE from Stanford University and an MBA from UC Berkeley Haas School of Business.

Harry Chan

Founder and CEO of eTopus

Harry Chan is the Founder and CEO of eTopus, a VC-funded startup that specializes in low-power, low latency, and multi-protocol SerDes to accelerate compute and storage for data center, AI and 5G. Previously, Harry held technical/management lead roles in two startups that got acquired by LSI Logic (now Broadcom) and SK Hynix respectively. Harry has held more than 20 US patents, authored and co-authored various conference papers on low power architecture. He graduated with M.Phil and B.Eng. degrees from Hong Kong University of Science & Technology.

Axel Kloth

Founder, Abacus Semiconductor Corporation

Axel is a physicist and computer scientist by training, and he is the Founder, President and CEO of Abacus Semiconductor Corporation. He was also the Founder and CTO of Axiado, an AI-enhanced security processor company, for which he developed the underlying technology and was instrumental in the fundraising of around $20M in two rounds. He is a serial entrepreneur with a keen sense of technology and its business potential. Prior to founding Axiado as a spinout, he started SSRLabs (Scalable Systems Research Labs) with a focus on HPC, and Parimics, a vision processor and systems company that in 2004 built the foundation of real-time object detection, motion analysis and object tracking in hardware, with as many objects trackable as there were in the frame set.

Axel was involved in a number of startups in optical communication, Distributed Feedback Dye and semiconductor LASERs, high and continuous availability systems and resilience and survivability studies for exposed systems as well as in projects for the US Department of State.

Additionally, he is a partner at and serves as an advisor to Pegasus Tech Ventures, a global VC firm that conducts the Startup World Cup Challenge.

He has been involved in cryptographic research (prior to NIST creating the crypto challenge and subsequently defining and publishing crypto standards) and securing data in transit and data at rest for nearly as long as he has been using and developing solutions for HPC. Axel is known as a disruptor and a creative mind to come up with new solutions, and he particularly likes to prove people wrong if they claim something is undoable. To that effect, he was behind the world’s first CML high-speed serial links on bulk CMOS, which was believed to be impossible to do. He is also behind the world’s first combined virtually output queued (CVOQ) switch fabric and many other inventions in the areas of processor architecture, communication I/O, protocols, cache coherency and I/O offload.

His current focus is HPC. Many experts in the HPC community are raising flags about the current direction of the industry as Moore’s Law came to an end, General-Purpose CPUs don’t show drastic improvements in absolute performance and performance per Watt any more, and the accelerator space is very fragmented. More importantly, there is no universal interconnect between processors and accelerators commensurate with their performance levels. Axel had identified this trend long ago and is working on solving this issue with better (more linear) performance scaling that will lead to better HPC.

Robert Fan

President of Silicon Motion Inc. U.S.A

Mr. Robert Fan – a subsidiary of Silicon Motion Inc. (NASDAQ: SIMO) – a world leader in NAND storage controller and graphics display solutions.

Robert oversees the largest revenue region which grew at more than 35% CAGR in the past eight years since he assumed the role. He is also responsible for corporate Marcom/PR, strategic partnerships, and investments, and serves as the General Manager of the graphics product line with development teams in the U.S., Taiwan, and Shanghai.

Prior to Silicon Motion, Robert served in executive positions at companies such as Spansion, IDT, and Staktek, as well as the VP of Marketing for two IC startups that both exited with positive valuations. Robert also spent 9+ years at Intel in sales, marketing, and management positions after four years of chip design engineering.

Robert is currently a board member of Monte Jade Science & Technology Association. He has mentored many Asia American high-tech professionals, advises and invests in startup companies, and speaks publicly on subjects ranging from the semiconductor market to career development, and sales.

Robert 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.