Big Ideas Lounge

Amazon Web Services is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud, enabling customers to build almost anything they can imagine. We offer the greatest choice of innovative cloud and AI capabilities and expertise, on the most extensive global infrastructure, with industry-leading security, reliability, and performance.

The semiconductor landscape has fundamentally shifted. AI-infused applications demand performance improvements far exceeding traditional scaling, with estimates projecting 60x advancement over the next decade. The future requires partners that architect new possibilities. This moment demands co-creation. Intel Foundry provides foundations to make bold ambitions real. We deliver world-class process nodes, industry-leading packaging, and expansive IP. Our team works alongside customers, delivering full-stack innovation backed by resilient manufacturing and the largest leading-edge capacity in the US. Intel Foundry provides technology foundations for the AI Era. Yours for the making.

Microsoft helps customers bring chip design to Azure by combining hyperscale compute, AI, and purpose‑built data platforms for EDA. Azure delivers the latest CPU and GPU‑based HPC infrastructure, while Azure NetApp Files provides the ultra‑low latency, high‑throughput NFS storage required for large‑scale simulations and verification. AI services accelerate design, validation, and insight extraction, and Microsoft Discovery brings AI, HPC, and data together to speed scientific and engineering workflows—helping semiconductor teams design, iterate, and innovate faster in the cloud.

The best-run DevOps teams in the world choose Perforce. The Perforce suite is purpose-built to develop, build, and maintain high-stakes products. Companies can finally manage complexity, achieve speed without compromise, and run their DevOps toolchains with full integrity. With a global footprint spanning more than 80 countries and including over 75% of the Fortune 100, Perforce is trusted by the world’s leading brands to deliver solutions to even the toughest challenges. Now a proud Siemens partner, Perforce is supporting the next generation of software-defined, silicon-enabled systems engineering. Perforce IPLM (formerly Methodics) offers a traceable platform for IP lifecycle management, and Perforce P4 provides a scalable and high-performance data management solution. Together, they deliver a centralized platform for systems design to improve collaboration, enable IP reuse, and streamline design efforts across global teams. Power Innovation with Perforce.

proteanTecs is the leading provider of deep data analytics for advanced electronics monitoring. Trusted by global leaders in the datacenter, automotive, communications and mobile markets, the company provides system health and performance monitoring, from production to the field. By applying machine learning to novel data created by on-chip monitors, the company's deep data analytics solutions deliver unparalleled visibility and actionable insights - leading to new levels of quality and reliability. Founded in 2017 and backed by world-leading investors, the company is headquartered in Israel and has offices in the United States, India, Taiwan and Japan. For more information, visit www.proteanTecs.com

Samsung Foundry’s integrated silicon innovations help architect AI systems from design to platform, translating architectural intent into silicon reality. Powered by advanced process technologies, precision manufacturing, and optimized packaging for both memory and logic, we enable seamless integration from architecture and design to final production. Supported by our global manufacturing footprint and the Samsung Advanced Foundry Ecosystem (SAFE™), we deliver end-to-end platform solutions that empower architects and innovators to build scalable, high-performance AI systems. This is where AI architecture becomes silicon reality—brought to life by Samsung Foundry’s leading-edge capabilities.

Advantest Corporation is the leading manufacturer of ATE used in the design and production of semiconductors for applications including high-performance computing (HPC), artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning, 5G communications, power electronics, and more. A global company, Advantest provides comprehensive test solutions across the semiconductor test flow, including testers, handlers, device interfaces, SV/DV solutions, and software. Serving IDM, fabless, and OSAT customers, Advantest’s SoC and memory test systems are deployed in the most advanced semiconductor fabrication and test facilities worldwide.

Tower Semiconductor, the leading foundry of high-value analog semiconductor solutions, provides technology, development, and process platforms for its customers in growing markets such as consumer, industrial, automotive, mobile, infrastructure, medical and aerospace and defense. Tower’s customizable offerings include SiPho, SiGe, BiCMOS, mixed-signal/CMOS, RF CMOS, CMOS image sensors, non-imaging sensors, displays, power management (BCD/700V) and MEMS, plus design enablement and process transfer services. Tower operates fabs in Israel, the U.S. and Japan (including 51% owned TPSCo), and shares a 300mm facility in Agrate, Italy with STMicroelectronics. More: www.towersemi.com.

TSMC pioneered the semiconductor Dedicated IC Foundry business model in 1987. By 2025, TSMC served 534 customers, manufacturing 12,682 products for diverse applications: high-performance computing, smartphones, IoT, automotive, and digital consumer electronics. Annual capacity exceeded 17 million 12-inch equivalent wafers. TSMC operates six 12-inch GIGAFAB® fabs, four 8-inch, and one 6-inch wafer fab in Taiwan. International fabs include 12-inch facilities in Nanjing and Arizona, a majority-owned 12-inch fab (JASM) in Japan, and 8-inch fabs in Washington and China. A Dresden, Germany fab will manufacture 28/22nm planar CMOS and 16/12nm FinFET. Global customer support exists across North America, Europe, Japan, China, and South Korea.