Plenary Speaker

Sustainable growth in computing performance supporting expanded functional capabilities of information technology and communication products requires energy-efficiency improvements of underlying technologies from devices and interconnect fabrics, system architectures, to algorithms and software, and innovations on information representation and its associated processing. Bridging the gap between existing silicon nanotechnology platforms and evolving system integration with expanded functionalities necessitates disruptive innovations t materials and processes level enabling novel devices and interconnect fabrics, each and all cohesively facilitating higher integration-density, performance, and energy efficiency that are scalable. Research and development monumental efforts on silicon-based CMOS technology scaling continuously raise the bar on energy-efficiency, performance, density, reliability, and cost that exploratory devices, interconnects, and novel integration concepts ought to meet to be of impactful technological value. This talk will overview emerging transistors, memories, interconnect fabrics, their integration, material; aiming to draw attention into the research challenges and opportunities so to identify viable alternative technology essential constituents beyond those of the projected evolutionary paths of current state-of-the art logic technologies.