Jun

26

NanoBiz Craze in Singapore

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Singapore is a little buzzing with nano craze in the last two day. The inaugural NanoBiz Meet 2007 Conference was just over (25 & 26 June 2007). The two-day event focus on the development and commercialization of nanotechnology. It aims to provide a collaborative and networking platform for academicians, technologists, venture capitalists, IP specialists, policy makers, incumbent businessmen as well as entrepreneurs. While nanotechnology spans a broad spectrum of fields, it is interesting to see how nanotechnology is applied particularly to semiconductor. I believe the initial applications of nanotechnology to semiconductor are probably on the interconnect. From the 2007 IEEE International Interconnect Technology Conference (IITC) held 3 weeks ago, companies and researchers are already excited about the prospect of replacing Cu interconnects with bundled carbon nanotubes (Ref) and introducing self-assembled airgap technology for 32nm node (Ref).

I have compiled 28 videos on nanotechnology here. These videos show how amazing is nanotechnology. Please enjoy.

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Jun

20

Freescale new CTO

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One shaking news this week is 37 years old IBM R&D Vice President, Lisa Su, has joined Freescale as senior vice president and CTO (Ref). I heard from others that she is a very impressive lady, tough but pretty reasonable. I am kind of curious about her background and so I did some googling on her. Here is what I found. Lisa Su obtained her bachelor, master and PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering from MIT. Her doctorate research topic was SOI technology, a new and unproven technology during her PhD candidature. Today, SOI has become the key technology underlying microprocessors and gaming chips. Her PhD work has far reaching significance and she was one of the world’s experts on SOI devices. After graduation, she spent a year at Texas Instruments before joining IBM in 1995. At Big Blue, she was assigned to work on Cu interconnect. To me, she seems to have a great instinct to work on the most critical and challenging projects. Upon completion of the Cu project, she worked one year as technical assistant for Lou Gerstner, IBM’s chairman and CEO, and then as a director of emerging products. Lisa Su was instrumental in establishing the collaboration between IBM, Sony and Toshiba to create the most powerful gaming chips, the Cell Processor, for Playstation. Her last position in IBM was Vice President of technology development and alliances in the IBM Systems and Technology Group (Ref).

Below is a Lisa Su interview video by VLSI Research Inc last year end. This is a great website with many interesting stuff. In the interview, Lisa Su talked about the various technologies and business perspectives in IBM.

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