Moore’s law is getting ever more difficult to continue, yet we keep upping the ante.  This talk will describe how TSMC, the world’s largest pure-play silicon foundry, is leading into new territories with 7nm and beyond.  Every generation now requires disruptive innovations to keep scaling and providing denser, faster, and lower power technologies.

Biography:

Paul Rousseau is Director for TSMC North America’s Field Technical Solutions where his team supports TSMC’s earliest technology adopters from technology definition to production.  He has also held roles in enabling emerging customers, together with the VC community, bring disruptive technologies to the marketplace. Prior to TSMC, Paul worked as a process integration engineer in both CMOS and Bipolar technologies. He earned his Ph.D. and M.S. in Applied Physics from Stanford University.