Rutenbar led a panel discussion at the 2023 ACM/IEEE DAC in San Francisco on the topic “CHIPS & Science & EDA: A New (and Amplified) Future?” The panel surveyed the broad landscape of the semiconductor community, looking at potential impacts of the 2022 US CHIPS Act’s promised new investments and research focus. The participants included experts from U.S. research funding agencies, global semiconductor fabs, and the venture capital community.
Participants included:
Margaret Martonosi (NSF Asst. Director for CISE)
Eric K. Lin (Deputy Director for CHIPS R&D, NIST)
Carl McCants (Special Asst. to the Director, DARPA)
Todd Younkin (CEO, Semiconductor Research Corporation)
Max (Massoud) Mirgoli (Executive VP for Worldwide Strategic Partnerships, IMEC)
Nicholas Montella (Director of Global Govt Affairs, TSMC)
Arash Afrakhteh (Venture Partner, PearVC)