IEEE Circuits and Systems Magazine - Q1 2020 - 3

From
the Editor
Yiran Chen, Ph.D.
The Editor in Chief of IEEE Circuits and Systems Magazine

2020: Looking Forward to the Next Decade

020 is the Year of the Rat according to Chinese zodiac. It is also the first in the zodiac cycle, representing agility, flexibility, and adaptability. Standing at
the transition point between two decades, we have never
been facing so many exciting challenges and opportunities, which will greatly reform the future of circuits and
systems, and change our daily life.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is unarguably the hottest
technology in the past decade. Data, algorithm, and
computing form the three cornerstones of AI. Indeed,
it was the appearance of powerful computing systems
(e.g., the application of GPU in deep neural network
training) that triggered the upsurge of AI technology.
Many new chips have been designed to accelerate the
training and execution of AI algorithms, and expedite
the deployment of AI systems. Innovative architectures
such as process-in-memory (PIM), analog computing,
neuromorphic computing were proposed to break the
limits of von Neumann architecture. Emerging devices,
such as resistive memory and spintronic memory, have
been also adopted in these practices to explore new
scaling paths of post-CMOS era.
Quantum computing is another transformative technology in circuits and systems. Solid progress has
been made in the past several years and we are getting
closer and closer to so called "quantum supremacy".
A relevant technology-superconducting circuits, has
also promised two orders of magnitude energy efficiency

and clock frequency compared to state - of-the -art
CMOS circuits.
IEEE Circuits and Systems Magazine (CAS-M) is ready
to become more agile, flexible, and adaptive to embrace
these technology trends and prepare for a new decade.
The newly formed editorial board is particularly strengthened the expertise in many emerging technology directions. We hope that CAS-M can serve as the central hub of
the members of IEEE Circuits and Systems (CAS) society
to learn new knowledge, communicate with other members, share their technical thoughts and opinions, and cultivate the new-generation circuits and systems engineers.
Last but not least, I would like to take this opportunity
to thank the dedication of the editorial board of 2016-2019
in the past four years. Because of their diligent works,
CAS-M now has become the periodical of IEEE CAS with
the highest impact factor. The success of CAS-M is also
due in large part to the leadership of Dr. Chai Wah Wu,
the Editor in Chief of the last editorial board, the strong
support from IEEE periodical editorial and production
service team, and the active participations of all the
authors and reviewers. We invite everybody to continue submitting articles, news, and correspondence to
CAS-M and hope that the magazine will continue to be a
stimulating and useful resource to the members of IEEE
CAS for many years to come.
Wish everybody a joyous, healthy, and prospectus
2020!

Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MCAS.2019.2962260
Date of current version: 11 February 2020

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