David Fried, Chips Making Chips | MESI 4.0 Summit, 2023

Chips Making Chips: How Virtualization, Digital Twins and Machine Learning are Accelerating the Spiral of Innovation
Technology, and semiconductor technology in particular, has been advancing at a rapid and accelerating pace since the invention of the transistor over 75 years ago. We’ve now reached the point that “intelligent” manufacturing equipment, powered by advanced chip technology and artificial intelligence, is producing the next generation of computer chips. This has a created a virtuous cycle of innovation, where computer chips and machine learning are helping to produce new, more powerful chips, but even faster and better than before.
In this talk, Dr David Fries discusses how semiconductor production equipment is becoming “intelligent”, and he reviews what challenges lie ahead in making this equipment even more intelligent. He also examines the use of digital twins in the semiconductor industry, and how they are being used to improve productivity in chip manufacturing and in the servicing chip manufacturing equipment. In addition, Dr Fired defines the concepts of “virtualization” and virtual chip fabrication, and discuss how virtual fabrication is being used in semiconductor design and manufacturing. Finally, he reviews a case study that demonstrates how human intelligence and experience can be complimented by machine learning, to further accelerate the spiral of innovation in computer chip technology.
This presentation was featured at the MES & Industry 4.0 International Summit 2023, on September 7-8, 2023 in Porto, Portugal
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