BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:IEEE vTools.Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Warsaw BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20120325T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=-1SU;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:CEST END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20121028T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=-1SU;BYMONTH=10 TZNAME:CET END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20120421T101142Z UID:EF1A0859-E5B6-11E7-833E-0050568D7F66 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Warsaw:20120420T110000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Warsaw:20120420T123000 DESCRIPTION:IEEE Poland Section and CASS Chapter Seminar AGH UST\, Room 429 /C2 \, 20th April\, 2012\, 11.00-12.00 Semiconductor Industry Trends\, Cha llenges & Opportunities Dr. Rakesh Kumar President & CEO\, TCX Technology Connexions President\, IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society Abstract Phenomen al growth in the use of mobile wireless products is fueling a resurgence o f excitement in the semiconductor industry. Inspite of increasing investme nt costs and predictions of doom and gloom a few years back\, these are ex citing times in the semiconductor innovation pipeline. After providing a b rief background and status of the semiconductor industry and its recent dr ivers\, this seminar will offer a discussion of the important challenges a nd opportunities. The industry’s use of collaborative research and development\, and the fabless Integrated Circuits models will be discussed . While there are over 1300 fabless Integrated Circuit companies worldwide \, and over 20% of the worldwide semiconductor revenue now comes from fabl ess companies the success rate of new startups remains relatively low. Usi ng the fabless IC startup learnings as a base\, this presentation will off er hope for entrepreneurial researchers\, and designers in fulfilling thei r dreams. The author's recently published book\, "Fabless Semiconductor Im plementation"\, McGraw Hill\, will serve as a reference text. Biography Dr . Rakesh Kumar is President and CEO of Technology Connexions (TCX Inc.)\, a services company which provides management\, business and technical 'bri dging the gaps' consulting in advanced semiconductor technology\, and virt ual operations areas. The TCX client list includes many emerging companies as well as top 10 semiconductor companies\, Intel and Qualcomm.. During 3 8 years in the semiconductor industry Dr. Kumar has held various technical and executive positions. He was VP & GM of the worldwide Silicon Technolo gy Services business unit at Cadence Design Systems and Tality. At Unisys and Motorola he made technical and management contributions. Dr. Kumar has authored the book "Fabless Semiconductor Implementation"\, published by M cGraw Hill in 2008. He has also authored numerous publications and patents . Dr. Kumar is a Fellow of the IEEE\, and the President of IEEE’s S olid-State Circuits Society. Dr. Kumar is a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Electron Devices and Solid-State Circuits Societies. He has chaired a nd served on the Steering and Program committees of the IEEE CICC (Custom IC Conference) for fourteen years. He received his Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Rochester in 1974 and 197 1 respectively. He received his B.Tech. degree in Electrical Engineering f rom the Indian Institute of Technology\, New Delhi in 1969. Dr. Kumar rece ived an Executive MBA from the University of California\, San Diego in 198 9. rakesh@tcxinc.com\, +1.858.945.3758.\n\nCo-sponsored by: AGH University of Science and Technology/IEEE Poland Section\n\nKrakow\, Malopolskie\, P oland LOCATION:Krakow\, Malopolskie\, Poland ORGANIZER:maciej.ogorzalek@uj.edu.pl SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:[Legacy Report] Semiconductor Industry Trends\, Challenges & Opport unities URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/75649 X-ALT-DESC:Description: <br />IEEE Poland Section and CASS Chapter Seminar\ n\nAGH UST\, Room 429/C2 \, 20th April\, 2012\, 11.00-12.00\n\nSemiconduct or Industry \nTrends\, Challenges & Opportunities\n\nDr. Rakesh Kumar\nPre sident & CEO\, TCX Technology Connexions\nPresident\, IEEE Solid-State C ircuits Society\n\n\nAbstract\n\nPhenomenal growth in the use of mobile wi reless products is fueling a resurgence of excitement in the semiconductor industry. Inspite of increasing investment costs and predictions of doom and gloom a few years back\, these are exciting times in the semiconducto r innovation pipeline.\n\nAfter providing a brief background and status of the semiconductor industry and its recent drivers\, this seminar will off er a discussion of the important challenges and opportunities. The indust ry’s use of collaborative research and development\, and the fables s Integrated Circuits models will be discussed. While there are over 1300 fabless Integrated Circuit companies worldwide\, and over 20% of the worl dwide semiconductor revenue now comes from fabless companies the success r ate of new startups remains relatively low. Using the fabless IC startup learnings as a base\, this presentation will offer hope for entrepreneuria l researchers\, and designers in fulfilling their dreams. \nThe author's recently published book\, "Fabless Semiconductor Implementation"\, McGraw Hill\, will serve as a reference text.\n\nBiography\n\nDr. Rakesh Kumar is President and CEO of Technology Connexions (TCX Inc.)\, a services compan y which provides management\, business and technical 'bridging the gaps' c onsulting in advanced semiconductor technology\, and virtual operations ar eas. The TCX client list includes many emerging companies as well as top 10 semiconductor companies\, Intel and Qualcomm.. During 38 years in the semiconductor industry Dr. Kumar has held various technical and executive positions. He was VP & GM of the worldwide Silicon Technology Services bus iness unit at Cadence Design Systems and Tality. At Unisys and Motorola h e made technical and management contributions. 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 the President of IEEE’s Solid-State Circuits Society. Dr. Kumar is a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Elec tron Devices and Solid-State Circuits Societies. He has chaired and served on the Steering and Program committees of the IEEE CICC (Custom IC Confer ence) for fourteen years. He received his Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in Elect rical Engineering from the University of Rochester in 1974 and 1971 respec tively. He received his B.Tech. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology\, New Delhi in 1969. Dr. Kumar received an Executive MBA from the University of California\, San Diego in 1989. rakes h@tcxinc.com\, +1.858.945.3758.\n END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR