Conference Agenda

Time Item
9:00 a.m. Registration Opens
9:30 a.m. Welcome Remarks
  • Dr. Nicky Lu, GSA Board Chairman; Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, Etron Technology
  • Jodi Shelton, President, GSA
  • Dr. Chih-Yuan Lu, Chairman, IC Industry Committee, Chinese Institute of Electrical Engineering (CIEE); President, Macronix International Co., Ltd.

Session I : Industry Outlook

9:40 a.m.

Opening Featured Speaker - Frank A.Y. Wang, Executive Director, Morgan Stanley Taiwan Ltd.

Global Memory Industry: Perspective and Progress (PDF, 1.79 MB)

10:20 a.m. Networking Break

Session II: Better System Performance via Memory & Logic Integration

10:40 a.m.

Featured Speaker - Mark Brillhart, VP of Quality and Technology, Cisco Systems Ltd.

High Performance System-in-Package (SiP) for Networking Products (Presentation not available at this time)

11:20 a.m.

Keynote Speaker - Dr. Oh-Hyun Kwon, President of the Semiconductor Business, Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Value-driven Memory Technology for the Future Semiconductor Market (PDF, 1.34 MB)

12:00 p.m. Networking Luncheon

Session III : Applications: Network & Storage

1:30 p.m.

Featured Speaker - Dr. Drew E Wingard, Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer, Sonics, Inc.

Eliminating DRAM Performance Bottlenecks in Embedded SoCs (PDF, 1.58 MB)

2:10 p.m.

Keynote Speaker - Dr. Subramanian Iyer, IBM Chief Technologist, Semiconductor Research and Development Center, IBM

High Performance Embedded Memory and Memory Hierarchy in High End Systems (PDF, 3 MB)

2:50 p.m. Networking Break

Session IV : Emerging Technologies and Solutions

3:05 p.m. Keynote Speaker – Edward Doller, Corporate Vice President & Chief Technology Officer, Numonyx B.V.

Forging a Future in Memory: New Technologies, New Markets, New Applications (PDF, 1.04 MB)

3:45 p.m. Featured Speaker - Pierre Fazan, Founder, Chairman & Chief Technology Officer, Innovative Silicon, Inc.

Future RAM Emerging Memory Technologies and Their Applications (PDF, 2.03 MB)

4:15 p.m.

Featured Speaker – Dr. Rich Liu, Chief Scientist, Macronix International Co., Ltd.

Future Trends and Challenges of Flash Memory Technology (Presentation not available at this time)

4:45 p.m. Adjourn