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Alon Raphael | Circuit Talk: Funders and Founders | Ep. 8

Circuit Talk - April 20, 2023 15:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
Semiconductors are a key driver of the global economy, with far reaching impact touching all aspects of government, industry, and our every day lives. Recent shortages in the semiconductor market have brought about the looming threat of a supply chain crisis, meaning now is the time for collabora...

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Alon Raphael | Circuit Talk: Funders and Founders | Ep. 7

Circuit Talk - April 20, 2023 15:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
Semiconductors are a key driver of the global economy, with far reaching impact touching all aspects of government, industry, and our every day lives. Recent shortages in the semiconductor market have brought about the looming threat of a supply chain crisis, meaning now is the time for collabora...

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From Apple to OpenLight: Silicon Photonics and Integrated Lasers with Dr. Tom Mader

Moore's Lobby: Where engineers talk all about circuits - April 18, 2023 10:00 - 41 minutes
I’ll bet that you didn’t know that the original concept for what became the Apple Thunderbolt interface involved optical communication. Well, in this fascinating podcast with Dr. Mader, you will learn that intriguing backstory and much more.  Mader also provides a helpful introduction to silic...

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Dan Marrujo | Circuit Talk: Speaker Series

Circuit Talk - April 12, 2023 16:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
Dan Marrujo, President and Managing Director at Trusted Strategic Solutions, LLC joins MITRE Engenuity Chief Technologist Raj Jammy to discuss the impact of semiconductor innovation on national security. Long time friends and collaborators, Marrujo and Jammy enjoy a robust conversation ranging f...

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Shahin Farshchi | Circuit Talk: Funders and Founders | Ep. 6

Circuit Talk - April 06, 2023 15:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
Shahin Farshchi, General Partner at Lux Capital, joins John Cole for episode six of Circuit Talk: Funders and Founders to talk about the important ways that a semiconductor startup can differentiate themselves to garner game-changing investment. Farshchi goes into detail about how Lux Capital de...

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Shahin Farshchi | Circuit Talk: Funders and Founders

Circuit Talk - April 06, 2023 15:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
Shahin Farshchi, General Partner at Lux Capital, joins John Cole for episode six of Circuit Talk: Funders and Founders to talk about the important ways that a semiconductor startup can differentiate themselves to garner game-changing investment. Farshchi goes into detail about how Lux Capital de...

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Synopsys’ Stelios Diamantidis Is Bringing the Magic of AI To Chip Design

Moore's Lobby: Where engineers talk all about circuits - April 04, 2023 10:00 - 1 hour
“It’s a magical world.” After several decades in the chip design industry, Stelios Diamantidis might be just as fascinated by the work he gets to do today as when he saw his first computer as a child growing up in Greece. Inspired by the success of computers and AI systems in defeating humans ...

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Jimmy Kan | Circuit Talk: Funders and Founders | Ep. 5

Circuit Talk - March 23, 2023 14:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
Jimmy Kan, partner at Anzu Partners, joins John Cole on this episode of Circuit Talk: Funders and Founders. The two speak about how Anzu is focused on investing not just in emerging tech, but in the tech that will define the next generation. Kan speaks specifically about how much the landscape o...

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Seeing the Big Picture of Vehicle Electrification with Texas Instrument’s Fern Yoon

Moore's Lobby: Where engineers talk all about circuits - March 21, 2023 10:00 - 59 minutes
Fern Yoon always enjoyed learning how things work. However, like many, or even most, electrical engineers, she grew up with a very limited understanding of the profession. Even through college, she still had a narrow understanding of what engineers actually do on the job. (Hmm…maybe this is why ...

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Faran Nouri | Funders and Founders | Ep. 4

Circuit Talk - March 09, 2023 12:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
Faran Nouri of Lam Research joins John Cole on this week's episode of Circuit Talk: Funders and Founders. Nouri brings a wealth of information and a fresh perspective on the importance of corporate venture groups, the specific projects that an organization like Lam Research partners with, and he...

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Faran Nouri | Funders and Founders

Circuit Talk - March 09, 2023 12:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
Faran Nouri of Lam Research joins John Cole on this week's episode of Circuit Talk: Funders and Founders. Nouri brings a wealth of information and a fresh perspective on the importance of corporate venture groups, the specific projects that an organization like Lam Research partners with, and he...

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Engineering, Inspiration, and Advice—Intel VP Deepali Trehan’s Journey

Moore's Lobby: Where engineers talk all about circuits - March 07, 2023 11:00 - 1 hour
Beginning with her humble roots in Delhi, India, Deepali Trehan recounts her story of overcoming the odds to become a leader at one of the most respected technology companies in the world. Encouraged, supported, and even challenged by her family and influential teachers along the way, Trehan’s r...

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Mark Your Calendars for Season 6 of Moore's Lobby

Moore's Lobby: Where engineers talk all about circuits - February 28, 2023 11:00 - 1 minute
Season 6 of Moore's Lobby brings you new conversations with some of the most fascinating leaders in the electronics industry.  Join host Daniel Bogdanoff as he dives deep with engineers, inventors, executives, and more about the hottest trends and most interesting technologies that are shapin...

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Ron Kelly | Circuit Talk: Funders and Founders

Circuit Talk - February 23, 2023 13:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
Semiconductors are a key driver of the global economy, with far reaching impact touching all aspects of government, industry, and our every day lives. Recent shortages in the semiconductor market have brought about the looming threat of a supply chain crisis, meaning now is the time for collabora...

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Ron Kelly | Circuit Talk: Funders and Founders | Ep. 3

Circuit Talk - February 23, 2023 13:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
Semiconductors are a key driver of the global economy, with far reaching impact touching all aspects of government, industry, and our every day lives. Recent shortages in the semiconductor market have brought about the looming threat of a supply chain crisis, meaning now is the time for collabora...

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Rob Snowberger and Rahul Sen | Circuit Talk: Funders and Founders | Ep. 2

Circuit Talk - February 09, 2023 23:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
In this episode of Circuit Talk: Funders and Founders, John Cole is joined by Rob Snowberger and Rahul Sen, CEO and CTO of Nantero. Nantero, along with being an active member of The Semiconductor Alliance, is a start-up ingeniously disrupting the manufacturing ecosystem. With humble beginnings a...

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Todd Holmdahl | Full Stack | Ep. 1

Circuit Talk - January 26, 2023 12:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
In this episode of Circuit Talk: Full Stack, host Nitin J. Shah welcomes Todd Holmdahl, Microsoft’s Corporate Vice President. A longtime employee of Microsoft, Todd played an instrumental role in the development of Xbox, one of the industry’s best examples of full stack innovation. Beginning wit...

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Jim Vandevere | Full Stack | Ep. 3

Circuit Talk - January 26, 2023 12:00 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
To get an on-the-ground perspective on the critical fight for semiconductor workforce development, Nitin brings Jim Vandevere, President of BRIDG, a nonprofit focused on technology commercialization in Orlando, FL to join him on the podcast. After an overview of the work BRIDG does in their deve...

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Rick Gottscho | Full Stack | Ep. 2

Circuit Talk - January 26, 2023 12:00 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
Nitin is joined in episode two by Rick Gottscho, Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at Lam Research. Gottscho details the legacy of innovation from Lam Research, noting specifically how their work both touches all semiconductors in everyday devices, as well as how their manufa...

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Deirdre Hanford | Full Stack | Ep.4

Circuit Talk - January 26, 2023 12:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
Deirdre Hanford, Chief Security Officer at Synopsys, joins Nitin in episode four to discuss her work in the semiconductor industry, and where she sees it growing in the future. In a wide-ranging discussion around her thoughts on the industry as a whole, Hanford touches on Synopsys’ work with ele...

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Meghali Chopra | Funders and Founders | Ep. 1

Circuit Talk - January 26, 2023 12:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
In episode one of Circuit Talk: Funders and Founders, MITRE Engenuity's John Cole is joined by Meghali Chopra, CEO of Sandbox Semiconductor. A benevolent disruptor in the semiconductor ecosystem, Sandbox Semiconductor seeks to revolutionize the way that process engineers conduct experiments on i...

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JITX Aims to Provide Superpowers to Circuit Design Engineers

Moore's Lobby: Where engineers talk all about circuits - December 20, 2022 11:00 - 1 hour
Duncan Haldane has always approached problems a little differently. In high school, he scavenged auto parts to build robots. In college, Haldane was mimicking biology to create two Guinness world-record robots: the speedy, slightly disturbing X2-VelociRoACH (video) and the crazy, jumping Salto (...

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EP Systems: The Power Behind Electric Aviation

Moore's Lobby: Where engineers talk all about circuits - December 06, 2022 11:00 - 1 hour
Like most engineers, Michael Armstrong was first inspired by his high school English class…Wait, that can’t be right? Indeed it is! Since then, Armstrong’s career has taken numerous unexpected twists and turns that include pistachios, designing a PhD program on a napkin, and becoming an unintent...

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Passing Storm or New Normal? How Should We Think of Today’s Electronics Supply Chain?

Moore's Lobby: Where engineers talk all about circuits - November 22, 2022 11:00 - 1 hour
In this Industry Tech Days 2022 keynote panel discussion, we get to hear from three industry leaders:  - Michael Knight, President of the Exponential Technology Group and Senior VP of Corporate Business Development at TTI. - Jeff Newell, Senior VP of Products at electronics distributor Mouse...

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Intel VP Aims to Deliver AI Everywhere and to Everyone

Moore's Lobby: Where engineers talk all about circuits - November 08, 2022 11:00 - 57 minutes
Wei has always been at the cutting edge of hardware and software as Intel transformed from a PC-based hardware company to a world leader in data centers, cloud, mobile, and now AI solutions.  He spearheaded compiler development that set world records for performance on parallel servers and sup...

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AMD Low-Power Guru Addresses the Looming Electronics Power Challenge

Moore's Lobby: Where engineers talk all about circuits - October 25, 2022 10:00 - 1 hour
Starting his engineering education by taking classes at Caltech under Carver Mead, one of “one of the luminaries of computer VLSI design,” Sam Naffziger “really got excited about the VLSI design field” early in his career. That excitement hasn’t waned a bit as he continues to tackle important ch...

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From the Ground Up—Zoox Turns a Corner with New AV and Sensor System Designs

Moore's Lobby: Where engineers talk all about circuits - October 11, 2022 10:00 - 40 minutes
Zoox is designing cars with autonomy as a primary requirement from the outset. That means no drivers, no steering wheel, and no gas or brake pedals. As their motto highlights, Zoox builds cars for riders, not drivers.  In this interesting keynote interview from Industry Tech Days 2022, Ryan Mc...

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Bringing Design Order to a Chaotic World: Insights From Top Execs at Digi-Key and Molex

Moore's Lobby: Where engineers talk all about circuits - September 27, 2022 10:00 - 46 minutes
In this keynote interview from Industry Tech Days 2022, we hear from two leaders at electronics industry heavyweight companies—Digi-Key and Molex. Dave Doherty is the President and COO of distributor Digi-Key Electronics while Joe Nelligan is the CEO of Molex, a leading supplier of connectors an...

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US Semi Fab SkyWater Seeks to Co-Innovate in Quantum, Photonics, and…Free Silicon?

Moore's Lobby: Where engineers talk all about circuits - September 13, 2022 10:00 - 58 minutes
As we think about advancements in the semiconductor world, it is typically focused on nanometer feature sizes and new transistor technologies like FinFETs and RibbonFETs. But, Steven Kosier, CTO of SkyWater points out that: At any particular technology node, there are all sorts of other things ...

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Season 5 of Moore's Lobby is Coming Soon

Moore's Lobby: Where engineers talk all about circuits - September 06, 2022 13:52 - 2 minutes
Season 5 of Moore's Lobby brings you new conversations with some of the most fascinating leaders in the electronics industry.  Join host Daniel Bogdanoff as he geeks out with CTOs, inventors, engineers, and more about the hottest trends and most interesting technologies that are shaping our f...