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Technical
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Distinguished Lecturer Series |
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Fabless Semiconductor Industry Trends |
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DATE/TIME
Thursday, October 7, 2010 (4:30pm to 6:00pm) |
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PLACE
AMD Fort Collins Campus (Fort
Collins, CO) |
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DIRECTIONS
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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 4:15pm for security sign-in and escort.
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COST
Free. As always, food &
drinks will be provided. |
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RSVP
Send e-mail to
visvesh.sathe@amd.com. |
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ABSTRACT |
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There are
currently over 1600 fabless IC companies worldwide, and over 20% of the
worldwide semiconductor revenue now comes from fabless companies. This
seminar will outline industry trends and driving factors. However, the
success rate of new fabless IC companies remains relatively low. This
talk will present the major reasons for the low success rate, and will
offer suggestions for improving the success probability. Key success
factors include technical, marketing and business considerations such as
technology selection, product specification, product positioning, cost
optimization, and understanding the customer value chain. |
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REFERENCE |
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PRESENTATION SLIDES
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DR. RAKESH KUMAR (TCX,
San Diego, CA)
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Dr. Rakesh Kumar is
President & CEO of TCX,
a services company which provides management, business and technical
‘bridging the gaps’ consulting in advanced semiconductor technology and
virtual operations areas. In addition, the company’s consulting partners
leverage their understanding of semiconductor research, technology and
business in making connexions between the industry, the supply chain
eco-system providers, and research organizations. Since its inception
TCX
has provided services to over 20 client companies ranging from emerging
fabless IC companies, to mid size and large, Fortune 500 IC companies,
as well as leading research organizations. He is also the CEO of a
company that provides specialty fabless ASIC solutions for select system
level clients.
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Dr. Kumar has authored the
book “Fabless Semiconductor Implementation”, published by McGraw Hill in
2008. He has also authored numerous publications and patents. Dr. Kumar
is a Fellow of the IEEE, and is the VP and President-elect (2010-11) of
the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society. He serves on the Board of
Governors and the Executive committee of the IEEE Technology Management
Council and the Solid-State Circuits Society respectively. Dr. Kumar is
a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Electron Devices and Solid-State
Circuits Societies. He has chaired and served on the Steering committee
of the IEEE CICC (Custom IC Conference) for fourteen years. |
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During 36 years in the
semiconductor industry Dr. Kumar has held various technical and
executive positions. He was VP & GM of the worldwide Silicon Technology
Services business unit at Cadence Design Systems and Tality. At Unisys
and Motorola he made technical and management contributions. As
Engineering Director at Unisys he managed the Silicon and Package
Engineering activities, the Unisys IC Roadmap, and relationships with
foundries, leading-edge technology partners, and ASIC suppliers. His
technical contributions included the development of numerous CMOS, NMOS,
Bipolar and BiCMOS processes and devices. At Motorola’s Advanced
Process Development R&D Laboratory he played a key role in the
fabrication of the first 1K ECL RAM in 1975. |
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Rakesh received his Ph.D.
and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of
Rochester in 1974 and 1971 respectively. He received his Bachelor’s
degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of
Technology, New Delhi in 1969. He received an Executive MBA from the
University of California, San Diego in 1989. |
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