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.
By Vienna Alexander, Marketing Content Professional, ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ

³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ was recognized in the for 2026. This award builds upon the related honor ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ received in September last year on a global scale: the World¡¯s Most Trustworthy Companies list.
³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ has proven to be both a leader in trustworthiness and related qualities such as charitability, transparency, sustainability, and numerous workplace awards accumulated in the past year alone. The company also has a proven track record of technical excellence, winning awards for many innovative products. These honors validate and reinforce the strong partnerships of ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ with its collaborators, customers, employees, stakeholders, and prospective talent. Trust is a key ingredient for these important relationships.
By Vienna Alexander, Marketing Content Professional, ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ

The inaugural list named ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ as a , recognizing the company¡¯s position as a leader in building a strong culture and supporting long-term career growth.
The Where You Work Matters list, created by the Burning Glass Institute and Schultz Family Foundation in collaboration with Harvard Business School, analyzed the job titles and career moves of more than 12 million Americans working across 553 occupation groups at 1,750 U.S. employers¡ªequating to 55 thousand jobs assessed¡ªbetween 2019 and 2024. One thousand companies received awards as coveted places for career progression.
By Vienna Alexander, Marketing Content Professional, ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ
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³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ was named as one of the . This honor recognizes ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ as a distinguished global company and desirable workplace for local talent to grow their careers.
The Singapore Opportunity Index (SOI) is a national, government backed program that evaluates about 1,500 employers in the country to honor the top 300, or 20%. The Ministry of Manpower partnered with the Singapore University of Social Sciences and The Burning Glass Institute to develop the index.
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