In Episode 7, the finale of MITRE Engenuity's Circuit Talk, Dr. Nadia Scahdlow and Pavneet Singh welcome Susie Armstrong, Senior Vice President at Qualcomm. A veteran of the technology industry, she is uniquely placed to provide her current assessment on the real engineering and financial challenges that the U.S. chip industry faces. We will learn how the U.S. fares in the global market, as well as what lessons we can learn from other countries as the U.S. orients itself to compete over the...

 The US academy has long been the wellspring of foundational research and experimentation of next generation technologies. Specifically with respect to semiconductor technology, the Government and Industry are heavily reliant on the basic research conducted in University labs and on the talent that these Universities are training.  We are thrilled to welcome Dr. Zak Holman from Arizona State University as our guest on Circuit Talk, and look forward to unpacking the challenges and...

Ken will offer thoughts about how and why the Semiconductor Research Corporation was created and the role that it played in the industry, in its early years.  He will discuss the challenges that companies face today, in trying to bridge the “lab to fab challenge” and how the private sector and policy officials could work together to help solve some of those challenges.  Ken also discussed the Decadal Plan, developed by SRC in 2020, and the shifts identified in that plan and its potential...

Connect with Dan Ambrust, Co-founder and Director of Silicon Catalyst, as he joins hosts Dr Nadia Schadlow and Pavneet Singh to talk about the challenges of commercializing next generation microelectronics. Mr. Ambrust recounts the not-so-distant history of Sematech, a public private partnership that catalyzed investment in R&D of advanced lithography techniques. He further explains how this necessary effort, designed to address a market failure, marked US leadership on the technology...

Join us as Prof. Will Shih speaks with hosts, Dr Nadia Schadlow and Pavneet Singh, about the link between manufacturing and innovation. Prof. Shih explains how capital markets in the past had exported most manufacturing. He then explains that  this separation of design from manufacturing has harmed innovation. As example, Dr. Shih explains the history behind the growth of Taiwan's successful semiconductor foundry capacity and the vulnerabilities that history may pose for the United States...

Join us as Dr. Nadia Schadlow and Pavneet Singh talk about the importance of semiconductors with Dr. Victoria Coleman, Chief Scientist at the U.S. Air Force and former Director of DARPA. As Dr. Coleman explains, the United States needs a thriving domestic semiconductor market that ensures availability, price, trust, and performance. She further details the importance of commercialized microelectronics to the DoD and explains that, in order to grow the market, a U.S. strategy needs to have...

In Episode 1 of MITRE Engenuity's Circuit Talk, cohosts Dr. Nadia Schadlow, Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute, visiting fellow at MITRE and visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution, and Pavneet Singh, nonresident fellow at the Brookings Institution, begin our speaker series with a conversation about the physics of semiconductors.  Their first guest, Dr. Edlyn Levine, Chief Technologist at MITRE Engenuity, explains the scientific challenges behind creating smaller and smaller chips and...