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Terri S. Fiez, Mar Hershenson, Lucy Sanders,
and Catherine Ashcraft

Innovation, Startups,
and Funding in the
Age of Accelerations
A survey of the evolving landscape

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homas Friedman's recent book, Thank
You for Being Late: An Optimist's Guide to
Thriving in the Age of Accelerations, traces
how the technology revolution, fueled by
the acceleration predicted in Moore's law, has
transformed our lives [1]. Friedman celebrates the remarkable
advances that have occurred over the past several decades
and describes, in layman's terms, the ways in which the solidstate circuits community is transforming diverse fields ranging from computing to transportation, communications to
robotics, and entertainment to energy.
It all began with the invention of the IC. Now, some 50 years
later, we take for granted the many innovations with which
we interact every day and their various paths to market. It
was hard to imagine 20 years ago that today we would have
available a palm-sized cell phone with numerous integrated
wireless radios, multiple microprocessor cores, an intelligent
global positioning system, high-resolution cameras, sensor
connectivity, cloud-based storage, and the ability to connect
around the world. And this is just the tip of the iceberg in
terms of the innovations spurred by the IC revolution.
In 2016, the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society celebrated
the 50th anniversary of IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits.
The most highly cited papers in each decade demonstrate the
advances that have brought us to today [2]. From the mid-1960s
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