Fast Development of IC Technologies in AI and IoT Era

The ICs for Artificial Intelligence and Internet of Things (AI/IoT) as strong driving force for future IC industry need massive capabilities as well as rapid development/manufacturing. Thus, the IC development for AI/IoT shall have systematic methodology for concurrent engineering and co-optimization among process/design/system in order to achieve performance, yield, reliability, and short time-to-market. Most BEOL based specialty devices/process and 3DIC/SIP are CMOS compatible; thus, they are highly preferred to be integrated with CMOS platform for fast IC development in AI/IoT era. Further, traditional IDMs or Foundries ("virtual-IDM") are increasingly incapable of providing effective environment for co-optimization among logic platforms (i.e. CMOS, SOI, FinFET) and specialty IPs. Instead, product focused foundry (referred to as Commune-IDM, or "C-IDM") with Process, Design, System partners closely together in business and sharing resources is much effective and superior (than IDM or "virtual-IDM") for fast IC development/manufacturing in AI/IoT era.