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leadership challenges and discussed
the importance of creating an elevator
pitch to stand out from the crowd.
The workshop wrapped up with a
panel, " Our Path to Circuit Design, "
with four speakers: Alvin Loke,
technical director, NXP; Andreia
Cathelin, technology fellow, STMicroelectronics;
Canan Dagdeviren,
associate professor, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology; and Brian
Floyd, professor, North Carolina State
University. They provided points of
advice with their opening remarks.
Panel moderator Prof. Dina Reda ElDamak,
University of Science and
Technology at Zewail City, asked
questions about how to get a mentor,
how to land an internship, and how
to pick the right career path. Selections
from the Workshop can be
found on the SSCS YouTube Channel:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=RrEJnKAsHdw. Keep an eye open
for future events sponsored by Women
in Circuits, at https://sscs.ieee.org/
women-in-circuits.
-Alice Wang,
cochair
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ISSCC Special Event 3: Semiconductor Supply Chain
The semiconductor market in 2022
is forecast to grow 10%, with especially
dramatic gains in the foundry
sector. This growth largely derives
from transformative changes in our
economies, ranging from expanded
cloud infrastructure to autonomous
and electric vehicles, telecommunications,
and gaming. Across the
industry, the chip supply chain has
had to cope with numerous factors
that support this growth (such as
increased scaling capabilities) and
pose challenges to overcome (such
as high fabrication utilization rates
and the time required to construct
new capacity); however, no factors
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have had greater impacts than the
large-scale demand shifts spurred
by COVID-19 and the increased
prevalence of natural disasters.
As industry, governments, and
academia consider how to address
these challenges and opportunities,
however, it is critical to consider
the semiconductor supply
chain from a nuanced perspective.
Before a semiconductor is ready to
integrate into a smartphone or car,
it must travel through one of the
most complex supply chains in any
industry, crossing boundaries and
oceans. Due to deep geographical
specialization and scale, there exist
many single points of failure, and
distinct
issues can be harmfully
conflated. For example, the lack of
capacity at mainstream nodes is
an important issue that is distinct
from challenges to leadership at
advanced nodes.
A strong semiconductor supply
chain requires a diversified manufacturing
presence and sustained
investment in research. Manufacturing
capacity must avoid excessive
geographic concentration to lower
the stakes of regional geopolitical
and climatic issues. Additionally,
governments must continue to invest
in basic research and development,
as early stage R&D is often a public
good. The semiconductor industry
offers great opportunities that need
only smart analysis and sustained
commitment to be made manifest.
-Jimmy Goodrich
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ISSCC Special Event 4: The Bright and Dark Sides
of Artificial Intelligence
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been
at the forefront of modern research,
due to its all-encompassing appliDigital
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cation in various aspects of life.
AI applications, on the other hand,
can have different focuses based
on their use cases. Hence, the
research community has devoted
considerable effort to refining the
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requirements of different AI niches
to facilitate comfort and ease of
functionality on the consumer end.
However, with the tremendous
growth of the technology through
the years, there have also been
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