We are having a break before the start of the afternoon sessions and from the photos you can tell SNDL is hard @ work @ MRS 2008. First time attendees Pu Jing and Miss Kan Cheong will be delivering their excellent talks later this afternoon in the non volatile, and phase change memory sessions, respectively. ...

San Francisco is an awesome holiday destination with fabulous weather and iconic attractions. But first you have to suffer an arduous ~17 -19 hours of flight, if you are coming in from Singapore. However, it does seems that I am getting a hang of these transpacific flights as they aren’t as torturous as before. ...

The second day of the MRS meeting had Paul Packan from Intel giving an excellent overview of device scaling from the perspective of historical trends and future directions. In short, power and leakages are issues that are currently keeping Intel engineers up at night. One major concern is the source-to-drain leakage arising from band-to-band ...

All good things come to an end eventually and today marks the day that my fine record of 4 consecutive acceptances into VLSI/IEDM ends… I wasn’t particularly upset or depress as the acceptance rates for these conferences are low itself. However, the rejection pill is still hard to swallow especially after such a spectacular run ...

As typhoon Fung Wong made landfall today, all businesses and schools are closed for the day in Taiwan. This is the second typhoon in a month but it didn’t hit as hard as expected in the Hsinchu area. However, the typhoon seems to have unleash its power onto Taipei and Hualien with torrential rainfall and ...

That’s what I am hoping the weekend going to turn out to be. The past three weeks have been GOOD but tough. But it’s things like these, which keeps the passion alive. Today, I got to know that one of my ideas is being actively pursued by leading semiconductor companies. What is even more exciting ...