Doctoral Education and Employer
Needs
Padraig O Murchu
Education and Research Mgr
Nov 2010
Outline of Presentation
• Intel Ireland a Knowledge and Capital
Intensive Enterprise
• Innovation Roadmap driving R&D activities
• Why we need PhD’s
• Skill Sets
• PhD Pipeline Program
– Skill sets
– Job Role
– Progression
1989
Ireland Fab Ops
Intel Ireland a knowledge and capital intensive
enterprise
FAB24
6 major technology transfers from 0.5um to 65nm
wafer transition from 200 to 300mm
€6 billion investment, 5000 employees @ height, 344k m2 of buildings!
Roadmap
FAB24
Ireland Fab Ops
0.5
Micro
0.4
0.3
0.2
Lg<1
Lg<1
00n
00n
m
m
0.1
0
1993
852, Fab 10
1st 200mm HVM
Nano
um
Moore’s Law – Research and Innovation
1998
2000
2002
856 , Fab 14
858, IFO
804, IFO
2004
2005
1262, Fab 24
1264, Fab 24
2nd 300mm HVM & Fab24-2
On-Time 2 Year Cycles
130nm
2001
90nm
2003
65nm
2005
45nm
2007
32nm
2009
Intel continues on a 2 year technology introduction cadence
Innovation-Enabled Technology Pipeline
90 nm
2003
65 nm
2005
45 nm
2007
Manufacturing
SiGe
SiGe
SiGe
SiGe
High-k
2011+
Development
Research
Virtual
Metrology
Metal
SiGe
32 nm
2009
SiGe
Nano-bio
Nano Bio
Other Research Initiatives
• TRIL (Technology Research for Independent Living)
– Wireless sensors technologies / UL
– Data Analytics, Data Visualization and Bioinformatics
/NUIM
– Biomedical Engineering /UCC
– Ethnography, clinical research and neuroscience /TCD
• Technology enabling Sustainability
– Interaction Design of Visualizations to Support Data Centre
Power Management/TCD
• Intel Communications Shannon
– Graphics, Visualization, Multicore, Embedded/Various
Why we need PhD’s
• Scientific and Technical Competence
– Transferring non optimized processes from
development sites to home site
– Optimization including Process and Equipment
development activities
– Add Value to other Site Research Activities
• Science discipline such as Physics, Applied
Physics, Chemistry, Materials Science and
Engineering disciplines such as Chemical,
Electronic and Electrical Engineering.
• Computer Science
Skills Sets
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Maturity
Technology Savvy
Demonstrate commitment to task
Proven Research methodology
Results focussed - – commitment to task in a
timely manner
• Collaborative problem solving
• Team work
• Statistical Process Control (SPC) or Design of
Experiments (DOE) principles
PhD Pipeline Program
• PhD sponsorships
– Knowledge and skills approach
– Focussed areas of research – enterprise informed
– Enterprise partnership model – increase number of Intel
funded PhD scholars
– Intel Mentorship
– Annual Research Conference
– Access to leading edge researchers
– Internships
Advantages of Collaboration
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Directly engaged in semiconductor industry relevant research
Exposure to industry norms – culture, technical focus, timelines, personnel..
Choice of a career at Intel/Other Enterprise and/or Post doc in Academia
Participation at the Annual Intel European Research and Innovation Conf.
Access to our research collaborators
Opportunities to travel
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At Collaborating Universities:
Intel staff are on-campus: talk to us anytime!
Quarterly student workshops