Daniel Armbrust- Silicon Catalyst

Daniel Armbrust is co-founder and director of Silicon Catalyst, founded in 2015, which incubates semiconductor startups. Its portfolio companies have raised more than $400M in venture funding and are valued at over $1.5B. Armbrust serves as an advisor, board member, board chairman and angel investor for many semiconductor startups. Daniel is an affiliate with Lawrence Berkeley National Labs and recently was appointed to the Industrial Advisory Committee, which advises the Department of Commerce on the R&D strategy for the CHIPS Act. He served as President and CEO of the SEMATECH semiconductor consortium and held various positions in semiconductor manufacturing and development over 25 years at IBM. Daniel’s contributions are made in his personal capacity, and should not be attributed to the Department of Commerce, the Industrial Advisory Committee of the CHIPS Act, or the US Government.

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 […]