SESSIONS/EVENTS

SEMICON West 2013 Keynotes and Executive Panels
Keynote Stage, Esplanade Hall

SEMICON West 2013 will featured a powerful line-up of industry experts and business leaders on our Keynote Stage (Esplanade Hall), who will offer their views and visions on the future of microelectronics, exploring the trends, challenges, and opportunities shaping the global industry.


Tuesday, July 9 9:00am-9:45am	Keynote Sponsored by:

Opening Keynote


	Foundry-driven Innovation in the Mobility Era Ajit Manocha CEO GLOBALFOUNDRIES


Wednesday, July 10 10:00am-11:00am	R&D Panel Sponsored by:

SEMICON West 2013 R&D Panel – “A Conversation on the Future of Semiconductor Technology”

Never before has the confluence of technological and financial challenges in semiconductor design, process technology and manufacturing threatened the continued progress of Moore’s Law. The emergence of multiple, non-planar transistor architectures, stacked 3D IC methodologies, 450mm wafer processing, and the continued uncertainty on high-volume EUV lithography have placed enormous burdens on R&D efficiency, effectiveness and synergy/dependency across the IC manufacturing and design supply chain. These core R&D challenges affect all sectors of the electronic products ecosystem—including system developers in mobile, computing, communications and other products; IDMs, fabless and foundry players; EDA solution providers; equipment and subsystem manufacturers; and advanced materials suppliers. Collaborative research consortia will play increasingly vital roles in addressing and overcoming these challenges, offering both discovery and solution outcomes essential to keeping pace with Moore’s Law, but also providing an essential “collaboration framework” where technical contributions and synergies from all sectors of the industry are increasingly required to achieve industry-wide goals.




Daniel Armbrust President & CEO SEMATECH	Michael Liehr Executive VP CNSE	Dr. Laurent Malier Chief Executive Officer CEA-Leti	Dr. Luc Van den hove President & CEO imec

Wednesday, July 10 2:00pm-3:00pm	Executive Panel Sponsored By:

SEMICON West 2013 Executive Panel – “A Promising but Challenging Future”

This panel brings industry leaders together to address the immediate and long-term outlook for semiconductor manufacturing, while directly confronting the most controversial issues in the microelectronics ecosystem. The convergence of critical new microelectronics manufacturing technologies, including vertical transistors (FinFETs), 3D-IC, 450mm, and EUV, hold the promise of driving continued cost reduction and performance needs beyond the 20nm node— but getting there remains rife with technical and business challenges and potential roadblocks. How the global microelectronics supply chain works together to address these challenges will probably determine the industry's profitability and growth over the coming decade. The SEMICON West 2013 Executive Panel will address questions surrounding the development and adoption of critical new technologies, and the business challenges of moving these technologies from the pilot line to production.


Martin Anstice President & CEO Lam Research	Nobu Koshiba President JSR Corporation	Bertrand Loy President & CEO Entegris	Wally Rhines CEO & Chairman of the Board of Directors Mentor Graphics	Denny McGuirk President & CEO SEMI