Chad Evans- Council on Competitiveness

Chad Evans is the Executive Vice President of the Council on Competitiveness. He is also both Secretary and Treasurer to the Board of the Council on Competitiveness; Treasurer to the Board of the Global Federation of Competitiveness Councils; a member of the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station Advisory Board; 2023 Co-Chair of Science Is US; an ARCS Foundation National Science and Engineering Advisory Council member; a U.S. German Marshall Fund Fellow; and a past member of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Industry Advisory Council and the World Economic Forum Advisory Board on Russian Competitiveness.

America’s lead in advanced computing is almost gone

Part 1: Systems and Capabilities

Abstract American usage of advanced computing to solve commercial and government issues has a long and august history that ranges from weather and climate simulations to drug discovery and protein folding simulations.  Since computing’s early days, Americans have been at the forefront, outpacing foreign rivals and providing a competitive advantage for U.S. businesses. But American […]

America’s lead in advanced computing is almost gone

Part 2: Semiconductor Manufacturing

Abstract In Part 1, we focused on the decline in U.S. leadership across multiple dimensions of advanced computing.  It’s well understood that progress in these systems is intimately dependent upon advances in the underlying hardware, and specifically the processor (CPU), graphics (GPU), and ASIC accelerators.  In Part 2, we focus on the design of semiconductor […]