Sustainable Future Semiconductor Industry by Innovative Technologies: Transforming Physical Challenges into Growth Opportunities

In the last few years, we have witnessed an unprecedented amount of data being generated, processed, and stored for creating new values in our daily lives in the digital transformation (DX) era, opening a significantly high growth opportunity in the semiconductor industry. In order to satisfy such demanding market requirements while considering extremely smaller physical dimensions of silicon 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 through ecosystem-wide and shared efforts. In this colloquium, I will present how we have satisfied the market’s requirements in the previous technology nodes and what challenges should be overcome for future technology nodes. Then, I will discuss promising innovative technology candidates including structures, materials, processes, and equipment for the next decades.

Speaker: Daewon Ha, Samsung Electronics