Tuesday, February 2, 12:00-1:00 p.m. HH-1112

Junior Faculty Panel Discussion: The Semiconductor Industry in 2030

A panel of junior ECE professors discuss their vision of what the semiconductor industry will be like late in their careers 20 years hence. Every professor will give a short position statement, then we will open up the panel for discussion and Q&A from the audience. Possible discussion topics are:

• Moore's Law: Will it ever end? Has it already ended?
• Life after CMOS: Is there any?
• 3D stacking: Will it ever be commercially viable?
• Nanotechnology: How small is too small?
• On-chip photonics: Will we ever see the light?
• Quantum computing: Hype? Hyperbole? Hogwash?
• Multi-core or multi-nonsense?
• 1990s = memory wall. 2000s = power wall. What's the next bottleneck?
• Will there be job growth in the semiconductor industry in 20 years?

Please come armed with:

• Questions
• Answers
• Torches and pitchforks

Speakers will include:

• Ken Mai: VLSI Design and Computer Architecture
• Yi Luo: Nanotechnology and Devices
• Xin Li: CAD and Algorithms
• David Ricketts: Analog Circuits and Devices
• Onur Mutlu: Computer Architecture