Innovate VLSI for AI Growth

AI is built on VLSI by the amazing Moore's law which is ended, but we need VLSI more than ever in AI era. So, what's next? It's innovation, innovate from materials, devices, modules to systems. This speech presents the progress of VLSI from the past decade and highlights the most complicated VLSI chip today. Innovation is easier said than done. What are the criteria and barriers for success and the leadership needed to cultivate innovation? The speaker's career has lived through the relationship between VLSI and AI, their similarity, synergism and reinforcement that accelerates their thriving growth. With AI taking away routine and complicated tasks, the author answers the question of what young people should be doing. While AI is becoming such a powerful tool, the leaders and engineers must help to grow ethics and morality for the mankind.