This week, the Association of semiconductor industry held the annual dinner, where veterans and industry leaders exchanged views on the challenges of time and hopes for the future. Communicate with interesting people succeeded in one of the authors of EE Times website. In particular, an Internet resource quotes three veterans: Chairman of Directors Board and founder of TSMC's, Morris Chang , co-founder of Analog Devices, Ray Stata and former boss Intel, Craig Barrett .
Chief of TSMC was the most optimistic (obviously, as acting leader). TSMC company intends to the middle of 2020 to master the production with the use of 3-nm process technology and sees this as a fundamental obstacle. Morris Chang also expressed confidence that the young professionals with engineering education will easily find a job in the industry or develop niches related to computer science, programming and Internet.
Founder of Analog Devices company was not so optimistic about the young professionals with a specialty electrical engineer. The number of specialists of the Department of EE (electrical engineering) is steadily declining, while the demand for them has not diminished. In this area is possible crisis if the industry will not take over part of the burden on the education of new professionals. Ray Stata also stressed that industry for the production of analog semiconductors, it is necessary to switch to a system approach, just as it happened in the field of digital electronics in the field of smartphones. The "analogue" of the industry so far are focused on the components rather than platforms.
Craig Barrett shared memory that he had three decades to hear that Moore's Law is living out its last days. But always there is someone who creates a "thin" transistor. However, a good prospect of the former chief of Intel says silicon photonics, which began to take the first steps and that has not even started, bioelectronics. Separately, a veteran of all three sectors agreed that the immediate future of the semiconductor industry due to the EUV-projection.