By Vienna Alexander, Marketing Content Professional, ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ
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The semiconductor industry is an exciting place to build a career, especially with the exponential growth and demand for hardware innovation in the age of AI¡ªthe global semi market is approaching the $1 trillion mark, with 2027¡¯s total market forecast at $831.5 million.1 For young engineers and talent, it provides an opportunity to solve complex problems and work on cutting-edge technology.
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³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ was named to both and for 2026.
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TIME Magazine has recognized ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ as one of the for the third year in a row. ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ is honored to have been represented since the origin of this ranking, as the company has demonstrated consistent, measurable progress across a number of sustainability initiatives.
By Michael Kanellos, Director of Content Marketing, and Vienna Alexander, Marketing Content Professional
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At the in Silicon Valley, ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Senior Vice President of Foundry and Advanced Packaging Dr. Hamid Azimi received the 2026 award. This recognition celebrates leaders whose lifetime contributions have had a lasting impact, significantly advancing the semiconductor industry.
Over a career spanning more than 30 years, Dr. Azimi has led teams that have achieved numerous industry-leading advances in packaging. He was part of the team that developed the first flip-chip packaging with Ajinomoto Build-Up Film (ABF) substrates, a combination that enables engineers to design packaging containing far more and much smaller interconnects to improve signal integrity and power flow. Hamid and his team also enabled EMIB (Embedded Multi-Chip Interconnect Bridge) technology from scratch to high volume manufacturing. EMIB is the first 2.5 interposer-less panel level technology that enables ultra-large packages for AI data center products; he also has been a pioneer in glass substrates, a potential technology that could further enhance the capability of future generations of devices. Originally from a small village that ¡°probably doesn¡¯t even register on Google Maps,¡± Dr. Azimi holds over 40 patents. He earned a Ph.D. and M.S. in Materials Science from Lehigh University and a B.S. in Materials Engineering from Sharif University of Technology.
By Vienna Alexander, Marketing Content Professional, ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ
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At the , co-located with Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS), Senior Staff Engineer Jing Ding won Best Paper for her research on the ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ? Photonic Fabric? Technology Platform.
There is a critical mismatch between the capacity and bandwidth available across memory tiers and the demands of large-scale LLM inference, revealed through characterizing KV cache retrieval efficiency. In fact, across LLaMA3-8B to 405B on NVIDIA A100/H200 systems, retrieving KV cache from host memory achieves up to 100x speedup over GPU re-computation for contexts up to 4M tokens, but host DRAM capacity cannot accommodate the KV demands of long-context, multi-tenant and multi-turn workloads.
While CXL-enabled memory pooling could be applied in this capacity, it faces fundamental electrical interconnect limitations, namely rack-scale distance constraints, switch contention under multi-host workloads, and power-thermal scaling challenges. By leveraging the Photonic Fabric??optical interconnect technology platform to break reach limitations, along with CXL as a host communication protocol, ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ enables a unique pod-scale memory sharing appliance that can enable up to 16 servers across multiple racks to dynamically share up to 32 TB of memory capacity.
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