Opening Statements

Tuesday, July 12, 2022

2:15pm – 2:55pm

Location: TechTALKS Stage, South Hall, Lower Lobby

Panelist(s)

Piyush Sancheti

Vice President, System Architects
Synopsys
Anirban Bandyopadhyay, PhD

Senior Director, Strategic Applications
GlobalFoundries
CM

Christophe Maleville

SVP, Innovation
Soitec
PG

Percy Gilbert

VP, New Product Development
NXP Semiconductors
James Amano

Senior Director, EHS and Sustainability
SEMI, CO, United States

Non-availability of spectrum in the sub 8GHz range and need for ever-increasing data rate forced exploration of available frequency bands beyond 8GHz with particular focus on large swath of contiguous available bands. The emergence of enhanced mobile broadband (eMBB) connectivity based on mmwave 5G (FR2: 24-52GHz) generated huge interest in the entire telecommunication ecosystem. While mmwave allows huge bandwidth of channels to enable enhanced broadband, it also poses a lot of technical challenges in terms of coverage, generation of efficient transmitted power particularly in the uplink, and long-term reliability of the hardware system. In future, carrier frequencies will go even higher to > 100GHz particularly D-band (120-160GHz) for both communication and sensing. I’d like to initiate discussion on how Silicon technologies based on differentiated partially and fully depleted SOI (PDSOI & FDSOI) and SiGe technologies can address the above challenges by enabling a highly efficient and integrated radio without compromising on the mmwave performance and reliability.