Sustainable Economic Growth of Future Semiconductor Industry
by Innovative Technologies: Transform Physical Challenges
into Opportunities
Abstract
Recently we have witnessed that digital transformation (DX) has been deeply penetrated into everyday life by unprecedented revolution of AIs such as GPT-4.0, which providing unexplored significant growth opportunities to our semiconductor industry. In order to satisfy such a demanding market’s requirement with considering extremely smaller physical dimensions of Si devices than 10 nm, however, there is an exciting and fruitful concern about how to achieve technical advancements in a profitable way. Thus, the key is cost-effectively improving PPA (power-performance-area) by relentless drive of technical innovations thru ecosystem-wide and shared efforts. To this aim, this presentation will discuss what are the primary drivers and challenges of DRAM, Flash and Logic technologies, and the promising technical innovations including structures, materials, equipment and processes for next decades.
Short Biography
Dr. Kinam Kim is a chairman of Samsung Electronics and the president of NAEK (National Academy of Engineering of Korea). Prior to that, he was a vice chairman and CEO of Samsung Electronics, overseeing global operations of the memory, system LSI and foundry business units. He is one of the global experts in the development of semiconductor technologies with over 40 years' experience, impacting on the innovation and progression which has not only elevated the South Korean economy and correspondingly, South Korea's status as a technology hub, but also greatly contributing to the well being of society worldwide. Many of the technologies developed under his leadership were initiated via bold bets that were often not considered feasible by others.
