Bob Smith

ESD Alliance member company IC Manage enables global teams to efficiently collaborate during design and verification of systems and chips. IC Manage provides design data and IP management, data analytics, hybrid cloud bursting and high-performance computing software to systems and chip companies.

Cultivating trust and keeping his team agile and innovative as they engage with technology partners and customers is a core focus of John Lee, General Manager and Vice President of the Ansys Electronics, Semiconductors, and Optics Business Unit.

Belgium-based Sigasi, a member of the ESD Alliance, a SEMI Technology Community, is a digital chip design validation company that firmly believes in the shift-left methodology to get chip designs right the first time. Sigasi has developed an Integrated Design Environment (IDE) that does just that.

Aki Fujimura, CEO of D2S and a member of the ESD Alliance Governing Council, is an expert on curvilinear (aka curvy) chip design. He believes curvy chip designs will replace the traditional Manhattan routing methods, leading to smaller, faster and more power efficient devices.

The partnership Rick Carlson forged with Illinois Tech is an inspiring story of ways individuals can get involved in helping the semiconductor industry’s professional development programs at the college level.

Prakash Narain, CEO of Real Intent, describes how his thirst to build a company led to the founding of Real Intent 25 years ago. He also offers advice on how to move into management or entrepreneurism and we conclude our talk with his opinion of recent industry trends.

Atomera is a semiconductor materials and technology licensing company and the newest member of the ESD Alliance. I spoke with Atomera CEO Scott Bibaud to learn more about its atomic-level technology that enhances transistors to improve performance in electronic products.

The EDA industry has accelerated and growth has moved into double digits for the last number of years. Our forecast for 2023 is that we'll have another double-digit growth year to about $13 billion from more than $11.5 billion in total industry revenue last year.

I recently spoke with Shi about his talk Looking Forward to the New Chip Cycle during the opening of the 2023 Design Automation Conference, collocated in July with SEMICON West in San Francisco.

Industry associations serve a vital role in amplifying the collective voice of its members for much greater impact than individual companies going it alone.