FHE: Bridging Semiconductors, AI, and Intelligent Systems
Tuesday, October 13, 2026
10:30am–12:30pm PT
SESSION
Artificial intelligence (AI) is scaling at a pace that is reshaping semiconductor roadmaps, data center design, and long-term infrastructure strategy. This promises many economic and social benefits, but this trajectory is now testing energy availability limits and power consumption has become the significant limiter to performance gains. The global “data center gold rush” is already straining energy grids around the world and may slow AI’s progress. To address this formidable challenge, radical efficiency improvement in both performance and energy consumption is needed. This requires radical innovation, not just by individual segments, but by meaningful collaboration that “connects the dots” across the entire system stack.
SEMI, a global electronics industry association with ~4000 member companies, is organizing this workshop under its Smart Data-AI Initiative; together with the city of San Jose. We are uniting the entire AI ecosystem – including devices, materials, packaging, photonics, quantum, architectures and algorithms. This is the fifth workshop in the series. Building on learnings from previous workshops, we are focusing on three high-impact areas – co-optimization of system-technology and hardware-software, and sustainable AI infrastructure operation. The overarching objective is to drive these from discussion to action. Please join leaders and experts from industry and academia in this exciting interactive workshop.
Future of Computing
Wednesday, October 14, 2026
10:30am–12:45pm and 2:00–4:00pm PT
SESSIONS
- Bending the Curve for Radical Efficiency Improvement
- Emerging Quantum Revolution
Artificial intelligence (AI) is scaling at a pace that is reshaping semiconductor roadmaps, data center design, and long-term infrastructure strategy. This promises many economic and social benefits, but this trajectory is now testing energy availability limits and power consumption has become the significant limiter to performance gains. The global “data center gold rush” is already straining energy grids around the world and may slow AI’s progress. To address this formidable challenge, radical efficiency improvement in both performance and energy consumption is needed. This requires radical innovation, not just by individual segments, but by meaningful collaboration that “connects the dots” across the entire system stack.
SEMI, a global electronics industry association with ~4000 member companies, is organizing this workshop under its Smart Data-AI Initiative; together with the city of San Jose. We are uniting the entire AI ecosystem – including devices, materials, packaging, photonics, quantum, architectures and algorithms. This is the fifth workshop in the series. Building on learnings from previous workshops, we are focusing on three high-impact areas – co-optimization of system-technology and hardware-software, and sustainable AI infrastructure operation. The overarching objective is to drive these from discussion to action. Please join leaders and experts from industry and academia in this exciting interactive workshop.
Panel—From Fragile to Future‑Ready: AI‑Powered Resilience for the $2T Semiconductor Supply Chain
Wednesday, October 14, 2026
1:00–2:00pm PT
SESSION
The semiconductor industry is entering a period of rapid, AI-driven expansion just as geopolitical shifts are putting new pressure on global production and logistics. This session brings together senior executives to discuss how companies can build more resilient and responsive supply chains, with a particular focus on improving visibility across regions, tiers, and manufacturing partners. Panelists will share their outlook on collaborative approaches to managing volatility and emerging ecosystem models. Executive presentations will be followed by a moderated Q&A, allowing the audience to explore segment specific challenges and potential responses in greater depth.
Test Vision Symposium—Tomorrow's Test Vision
October 14 & 15, 2026
1:30–3:00pm PT
SESSIONS
- Session 2: AI for Test, Yield and Manufacturing Optimization
- Townhall Debate: Testing in the Era of Convergence: Power Density, Thermal Limits, Photonics, 3D Stacks, and AI Acceleration
The Test Vision Symposium at SEMICON West brings together semiconductor test experts and industry visionaries to explore and shape the future of testing. This year’s theme, “Tomorrow’s Test Vision,” highlights the collaborative and innovative spirit driving the next wave of advancements in semiconductor testing.
As advancements in AI, advanced packaging, silicon photonics, and high-performance computing accelerate, test strategies must evolve in parallel. Increasing device complexity makes testing essential for reducing time to market, ensuring reliability, controlling costs, optimizing performance, and enabling scalable manufacturing across applications from autonomous vehicles, renewable energy to AI‑powered systems and next-generation consumer electronics.
Test Vision 2026 provides a forum for open dialogue, knowledge sharing, and forward‑looking perspectives on semiconductor testing. This year’s symposium brings the “vision” back into Test Vision—fostering collaboration, partnership, and innovation to enable the next phase of real‑time evolution in test technologies.
We invite abstracts that explore innovative test methodologies, data‑driven approaches, and solutions addressing challenges such as AI enablement, thermal management, and heterogeneous integration.