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Technical Seminar

Distinguished Lecturer Series

From I-25, take Harmony Road Exit (Exit 265) westbound, and enter AMD campus on right immediately following Harmony/Ziegler intersection.  AMD is located on the NW corner of Harmony Road and Ziegler Road.  Proceed to 3rd floor for escort to seminar auditorium.  Non-AMD employees:  please arrive at 3:00pm for security sign-in and escort.

Despite generation on generation of scaling, computer chips have remained essentially 2-dimensional. Improvements in on-chip wire delay and in the total number of inputs and outputs have not been able to keep up with improvements to the transistor, and it's getting harder and harder to hide it!  3D chip technologies come in a number of flavors, but are receiving lots of attention lately as a means of extending CMOS performance.  Designing for three dimensions, however, forces us to look at formerly-two-dimensional integration issues quite differently.  IBM as well as other companies and research institutions are developing ways of addressing these challenges.  This talk follows announcements from IBM noting our development of this breakthrough technology and its appearance on IBM’s technology roadmap.  This talk will introduce 3D concepts and their architectural value, and will offer a number of movies and animations showcasing some of the capabilities that 3D-enabled computing may offer in the future.

Kerry Bernstein is a Senior Technical Staff Member at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY.   He is currently responsible for future product technology definition, performance, and application.  He has been privileged to be on the teams developing and introducing fundamental device and interconnect technologies to the industry during his career, including NMOS, CMOS, Partially-Depleted Silicon-On-Insulator devices, and copper/Low-K interconnects.  Mr. Bernstein received the B.S.E.E. degree from Washington University in St. Louis, MO, and joined IBM in 1978. He holds 87 US Patents and is a co-author of three college textbooks and multiple papers on high-speed computing.  Mr. Bernstein is an IEEE Fellow.  He is also a Captain and executive officer in the Vermont State Guard.  Mr. Bernstein and his wife have three children, and live in Underhill, VT.