A New Playbook For The AI Era
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Different strategies and industry collaborations are needed to go beyond traditional Moore’s Law scaling and accelerate the rate of progress.
November 21st, 2019 - By: Ellie Yieh
What does this look like? At the AI Design Forum, Google’s Cliff Young offered this idea for how we can get there: “What I’d like to ask for is true co-design collaboration. We’ve got the architecture and algorithmic pieces … so let’s push from Google and the other AI people down towards materials. And let’s push from materials and devices back up.”
Co-design and collaboration. Materials to systems—and systems to materials—as one industry-wide process. The next task for the industry is to discuss what that looks like in practice.
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Ellie Yieh is the corporate vice president for Advanced Product Technology Development at Applied Materials. Yieh is responsible for Applied’s Maydan Technology Center and works closely with customers to drive advanced product development and technology roadmaps. In addition, Yieh leads R&D for developing new memory and logic innovations. She received a B.S. in chemical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley and holds more than 100 semiconductor engineering patents. In 2016 she was inducted into the Women in Technology International Hall of Fame for outstanding contributions to scientific and technological communities. She was also named one of the 2015 “Top 50 Most Powerful Women in Technology” by the National Diversity Council.