Plenary Session

Monday, December 7, 9:00 a.m.
Key Ballrooms 7 - 12

Welcome and Awards
General Chair: Vivek Subramanian, University of California, Berekeley

Invited Papers
Technical Program Chair: Meikei Ieong, TSMC

1.1  GPU Technology Trends and Future Requirements, John Chen, nVidia

The inherently massive parallelism makes GPU a natural beneficiary of Moore's law. Even with billions of transistors on a latest GPU chip, it is still not good enough for photo realism; and the desire of having more transistors continues. In addition, the use of GPUs for parallel computing is just at the beginning of creating many exciting applications. This talk begins with GPU basics and its evolution with technology, then connects the GPU requirements such as FLOPS, power and variations to device and process technology. It will also address some of the technological opportunities and challenges for future GPU advancement.

1.2  Printed Organic Transistors: Toward Ambient Electronics, Takao Someya, The University of Tokyo

In the forthcoming ambient electronics era, multiple electronic objects are scattered on walls, ceilings or in imaginative locations and interact each other to enhance safety, security and convenience. For implementation of many electronic objects in our daily life, large-area, flexible devices, which would be printed on plastic sheet, cloth, and/or paper, are expected to play an important role. In this paper, we describe recent progress and future prospects of flexible, large-area electronics based on printed organic transistors.

1.3  New Perspectives from Micro and Nanotechnologies in Healthcare and Diagnosis, Jean Chabbal, CEA, LETI, MINATEC

Medical diagnostic plays an increasing role in healthcare systems and provides key information to detect diseases at an early stage and define the best therapy to apply. Medical diagnostic remains mainly centralized within hospitals, large laboratories or imaging centers, which are staffed with highly qualified and trained people. As a result, currently available diagnostic solutions are not suitable for most global healthcare conditions and settings where low cost, ease of use, and field-rugged solutions are imperative. Medical diagnostic shall move from centralized structures toward a decentralized organization able to provide results closed to doctor and patient. Microelectronics and Microsystems provides the solutions for miniaturization, connectivity and portability; 3D heterogeneous integration of detection layers within CMOS electronics is the basis for a new generation of detectors for medical imaging and in vitro diagnostic. The integration of sample preparation remains the key for point of care, multidisciplinary work involving physicist, biologist and chemist is crucial to overcome this bottleneck and a low cost autonomous micro fluidics platform is required.