BY PETE SINGER, Editor-in-Chief
Please join me welcoming our news members of the Advisory Board for our annual conference and networking event, The ConFab. New members include: Pinyen Lin, Director of Etch Engineering, G450C and Deputy Director, TSMC; Robert Cappel, Senior Director Corporate Marketing, KLA-Tencor; William Chen, Fellow and Senior Technical Advisor, ASE; L.T. Guttadauro, Executive Director, Fab Owners Associ- ation; Li Li, Distinguished Engineer, Cisco Systems; Ariel Meyuhas, COO, The MAX Group; Gary Patton, CTO and Head of Worldwide R&D, GLOBALFOUNDRIES and Elton Peace, General Manager North America Regional Operations, Lam Research.
The new members will be joining the existing Advisory Board, comprised of David Bennett, VP Alliances, GLOBALFOUNDRIES; Janice M. Golda, Director, Lithography Capital Equipment Development, Intel Corpo- ration; Devan Iyer, Director Worldwide Semiconductor Packaging Opera- tions, Texas Instruments; Lori Nye, COO/Executive Director Customer Operations, Brewer Science; Ken Rygler, President, Rygler Associates (founder of Toppan Photomasks); Sima Salamati, VP, Fab Operations, imec; Hans Stork, CTO, ON Semiconductor Corporation; Aubrey Tobey, President, ACT International; Geoffrey Yeap, VP of Technology, Qualcomm Inc.; and Abe Yee, Sr. Director, Advanced Technology and Package Development, Nvidia Corporation.
Now in its 12th year, The ConFab will be held June 12-15, 2016 at The Encore at The Wynn in Las Vegas. The conference program will focus on “The Economics of Semiconductor Manufacturing and Design”. Topics will include:
• How IoT is Driving the Semiconductor Industry
• Filling the Fabs of the Future: A Guide to Hot New Applications • MEMS Sensor Fusion and More then Moore
• The Limits of Scaling: Understanding the Challenges of sub-10nm Manufacturing
• Fabless, Foundries and OSATs: Optimizing the Supply Chain • System Integration, Advanced Packaging + 3D Integration
• China’s New Role in the Global Semiconductor Industry
• Legacy Fabs and the Resurgence of 200mm
• The Impact of Continued Consolidation Across the Supply Chain • Wearables and Bioelectronics: The Cusp of a Revolution?
• Tackling Rising R&D Costs in the Semiconductor Industry
The ConFab is an executive-level conference and networking event for business leaders from the semiconductor manufacturing and design industry. The event features a high-level conference program, networking events and business meetings with purchasing decision makers and influencers. More information on The ConFab may be found at www.theconfab.com. Please join us!