Robert Chau, a 38-year semiconductor industry veteran, is currently Process Tech Architect at AMD where he leads the semiconductor strategic roadmap.
He is an IEEE Life Fellow, an Elected Member of the National Academy of Engineering, the former Natcast SVP of Research and Chairman of the U.S. National Semiconductor Technology Center (NSTC) Technical Advisory Board, and a former Intel Senior Fellow and General Manager of Components Research (CR) in Intel Technology and Manufacturing Group.
Before joining Natcast in 2024 to drive the U.S. semiconductor research agenda and lead national R&D initiatives, Dr. Chau spent 36 years at Intel where he and his Intel Components Research team invented and developed numerous industry-first semiconductor and packaging technologies and seamlessly transferred them to TD/Pathfinding for enabling Intel’s next and future process technology nodes.
Between 2022 and 2024, Dr. Chau relocated from the U.S. to Europe, where he was based out of imec, to establish Intel’s semiconductor and packaging R&D infrastructures across Europe and drive sub-1.0nm process and 3D heterogenous systems integration R&D initiatives for 2030+ maunufacturing readiness.
Dr. Chau has received numerous industry awards including the IEEE Jun-ichi Nishizawa Medal for “developing innovative transistor technologies for advanced logic products”, and holds ~500 granted U.S. patents on transistor and process technologies.