CONVENED WEDNESDAY June 11, 11:15am - 12:15pm | Ballroom ABC
KEYNOTE: Challenges on Design Complexities for Advanced Wireless Silicon Systems
KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Sanjay K. Jha - Chief Operating Officer of Qualcomm and President of Qualcomm CDMA Technologies The global wireless landscape continues to change as demand for 3G technology accelerates. Qualcomm is meeting the challenge with its highly integrated SoC solutions that enable customers worldwide to bring more advanced consumer devices to market faster. Relationships and tight collaboration continue to play an integral role in product development, as it becomes more crucial than ever for partnering companies to tackle complex design issues through synergistic groups such as EDA partners, foundry partners and customers. Technology migration with the right approach is also key as chipset design continues to evolve rapidly, bringing a whole new set of design challenges to semiconductor companies. Jha will elaborate on these present and future trends and reveal how collaborative business models are changing the game in chipset design.
Sanjay K. Jha is chief operating officer of Qualcomm, Inc. and president of Qualcomm CDMA Technologies (QCT). QCT is the world’s top wireless chipset provider and largest fabless semiconductor producer.
Jha began his career at Qualcomm in 1994. In 2002, he led the formation of Qualcomm Technologies & Ventures, where he managed both the technology investment portfolio and the new technology group as senior vice president and general manager. Jha became executive vice president of Qualcomm and president of QCT in 2003, and was promoted to chief operating officer of Qualcomm in 2006. He is also a member of the Qualcomm Ventures advisory committee.
Jha has also served as chairman of the Fabless Semiconductor Association, the voice of the fabless business model and a group with more than 450 corporate members, now known as the Global Semiconductor Alliance (GSA).
Prior to joining Qualcomm, Jha held lead design engineering roles with Brooktree Corporation in San Diego, and GEC Hirst Research Labs in London. He holds a Ph.D. in electronic and electrical engineering from the University of Strathclyde, Scotland and received his Bachelor of Science degree in engineering from the University of Liverpool, England.
Speaker: Sanjay K. Jha - Qualcomm, Inc.,