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CONFERENCE REPORTS
Highlights From ISSCC 2021
T
The 2021 International Solid-State
Circuits Conference (ISSCC) looked a
little bit different this year. Due to the
COVID-19 pandemic, the conference
was held virtually on 13-22 February
2021 and was jam packed with a wide
array of forums, technical and tutorial
presentations, short courses, an
exciting plenary session, and opportunities
to network virtually with
leading experts in the field.
ISSCC 2021 was held on a virtual
platform called Underline, which
allowed attendees to move from session
to session using their avatar.
The attendees were able to see each
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other on video, visit book publishers,
and even ask questions during
the sessions.
The chair of ISSCC 2021 was Kevin
Zhang, from Taiwan Semiconductor
Manufacturing Company (TSMC),
Hsinchu, Taiwan. The 2021 program
chair was Makoto Ikeda, from the
University of Tokyo, Japan.
Plenary and Awards Session
The 2021 plenary session featured
four distinguished speakers:
■ Mark Liu, TSMC, Hsinchu, Taiwan
■ Victor Peng, Xilinx, San Jose, California
■
Dina Katabi, Massachusetts Institute
of Technology, Cambridge,
Massachusetts
■ Albert J.P. Theuwissen, Delft University
of Technology, Delft, The
Netherlands, and chief executive
officer/founder, Harvest Imaging,
Belgium.
Each plenary talk can be watched
on demand on the ISSCC website
at http://isscc.org/.
In addition,
the ISSCC YouTube channel has
highlights from the conference:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/
UCsE9jUU5dOqjylXEYBj-BjA.
This year, the ISSCC awards session
was held virtually. The full list of
award winners can be found at http://
isscc.org/isscc-in-the-news-2/isscc
-award-winners-2/.
-Abira Altvater
ISSCC Special Event: Which Technologies Will
Shape the Future of Computing?
G
General-purpose computing has derived
performance gains from clock frequency
and instructions per clock for
more than four decades, achieving an
impressive ~105 performance increase
over the same time frame. With the
future of the traditional computing
road map in doubt, the 2021 International
Solid-State Circuits Conference
special event " What Technologies
Will Shape the Future of Computing? "
focused on the other technologies
that may help shape the future of
computing. How much further can we
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push traditional CPU microarchitectures?
Will 3D integration help extend
the traditional road map for another
decade? Will dedicated accelerators
become mainstream alternatives
for everyday computing tasks? Can
memory materials or architectures
provide a performance breakthrough
for traditional architectures, and
what if error-free memory is no longer
a constraint?
The panelists for the session were
as follows:
■ Debbie Marr, Intel, Hillsboro, Oregon
■ Samuel Naffziger, Advanced Micro
Devices Inc. (AMD), Fort Collins,
Colorado
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■ Henk Corporaal, Eindhoven University,
The Netherlands
■ Ken Takeuchi, University of Tokyo, Japan
■ Naresh Shanbhag, University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois.
The session was organized by
■ Hugh Mair, MediaTek, Austin, Texas
■ Shinichiro Shiratake, Kioxia, Yokohama,
Japan
■ Eric Karl, Intel, Hillsboro, Oregon
■ Thomas Burd, AMD, Santa Clara,
California
■ Jonathan Chang, Taiwan Semiconductor
Manufacturing Company,
Hsinchu, Taiwan.
Hugh Mair served as the moderator
for the event.

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