Conference Program    Technical Session

TUESDAY, July 25, 2006, 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM | Room: 306-308
TOPIC AREA:  BUSINESS


   SESSION 1
  PANEL: How Will the Fabless Model Survive?
  Chair: Don Clark - Wall Street Journal, San Francisco, CA
  Organizers: Riko Radojcic

  The fabless model was traditionally enabled through clean interfaces -- both in technical and business terms -- between foundries and fabless semiconductor companies. However, with advanced geometry and analog/mixed-signal process nodes, the technical challenges have been greatly magnified, so that successful semiconductor design requires intimate co-optimization of design and manufacturing, infringing upon those clean interfaces. The panel presents views to these challenges and specifically how companies are planning to address them.

Fabless Panel Extended Abstract


  1.1   PANEL: How Will the Fabless Model Survive?
  Speaker(s): Thomas Hartung - X-Fab Semiconductor Foundries AG, Erfurt, Germany
Ana Hunter - Samsung Semiconductor Inc., San Jose, CA
Felicia James - Cadence Design Systems, Inc., San Jose, CA
Mark T. Bohr - Intel Corp., Hillsboro, OR
Brad Paulsen - TSMC NA, San Jose, CA
Nick Yu - Qualcomm Inc., San Diego, CA