Naga Chandrasekaran - Micron Technology

SVP, Technology Development - Micron Technology, Inc.

Futuristic memory and storage solutions transforming how the world uses information to enrich life, for all
Since the invention of transistors, the semiconductor industry has been innovating, collaborating, and pushing the boundaries of physics to develop new solutions. While scaling challenges have increased exponentially, the innovative solutions delivered by the semiconductor industry to address these challenges have increased at a double exponential pace, giving birth to the data economy. Improved compute speed, advanced algorithms, and improved memory and storage capabilities have opened the door for science fiction to become reality.  In this new data driven world, we generate, process, and gain intelligence from data at a pace not seen before, and this is just a small insight into the possibilities that lie ahead. To realize the limitless possibilities in how the world uses information to enrich life for all, semiconductor solutions and in particular, memory and storage solutions, must continue to scale and reach new heights in performance, power, area, and cost vectors. This talk will discuss the opportunities and decisions we face now and how, if acted upon correctly by the industry, we can scale new heights to enable this future transformation. We must create a future where advanced innovations in multiple fields (materials, equipment, design, process, simulations, artificial intelligence) come together in a vertically integrated fashion to enable further scaling.  Where boundaries blur and we focus on solutions versus individual components. And where customers, suppliers, and device manufacturers seamlessly and selflessly collaborate to develop solutions in a sustainable and ethical manner. We must re-energize the next generation of engineers to view the semiconductor industry as the future instead of seeing it as the past. Our future is now, as we face an inflection point to collectively re-define how memory, storage, and broader semiconductor solutions will scale and function together going forward. The investments and decisions we make today will allow the next generation to not only imagine, but to experience a world where advanced semiconductor solutions continue to enrich life, for all.