NVIDIA at SEMICON West 2026
October 13–15 | San Francisco, California
NVIDIA is enabling the semiconductor ecosystem to accelerate digital transformation across chip design, manufacturing, and production. At SEMICON West 2026, NVIDIA and its partners will showcase how AI-driven chip design and manufacturing, accelerated computing, autonomous robotics, fab digital twins, and AI factories are powering end-to-end smart factories and scaling semiconductor workloads.
News From NVIDIA’s Keynote at SEMICON West
NVIDIA and Semiconductor Leaders Advance AI Across Chip Design and Manufacturing for AI-Defined Fabs
NVIDIA introduces cuPotential, a new NVIDIA CUDA-X™ library for AI agents that simulate atomic and molecular interactions. Semiconductor leaders are using NVIDIA accelerated computing and AI to advance chip design, manufacturing, simulation, and inspection for AI-defined fabs.
Explore Sessions at SEMICON West 2026
October 13
3:40-4:05 p.m. PT
Nikola Nedovic,
Senior Research Scientist, NVIDIA
October 14
9:10–9:20 a.m. PT
Gaurav Verma,
Vice President Engineering (Reliability) , NVIDIA
1–2:00 p.m. PT
Moderator: Yiyi Wang, Head of Global Semiconductor Business Development, NVIDIA
Panelists:
TSMC: Mao-Chih Huang, Director of the Manufacturing AI & System Development Division
Applied Materials: Brad Eaton, Managing Director, Product Marketing, Applied Global Services
Lam Research: Chris Carter, SVP and GM, Customer Support Business Group
Tokyo Electron: Dr. Akihisa Sekiguchi, SVP and GM, Corporate Innovation and R&D Division
Micron: Aaron Lum, Director of Physical AI, Smart Manufacturing
2:00–2:20 p.m. PT
Da Yang,
Senior Director of Product, Semiconductor and EDA, NVIDIA
2:25-2:45 p.m. PT
Brian Zimmer,
Research Scientist, NVIDIA
2:25–2:45 p.m. PT
Russell Dover,
Head of Autonomous Fab Strategy & Technology, Lam Research
2:50–3:10 p.m. PT
Pradeep Subrahmanyan,
Vice President, Physics Assisted Computational Solutions Group, Applied Materials
3:15–3:35 p.m. PT
Dr. Jim Shiely,
Engineering Director, Siemens
3:40-4:00 p.m. PT
Rick Wunderlich,
Research & Development – General Manager, FANUC
4:05-4:25 p.m. PT
Michael DeGrace,
Head of Ecosystems Success, Universal Robots
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Featured Speakers
Da Yang
Senior Director of Product, Semiconductor, and EDA
NVIDIA
Yiyi Wang
Head of Global Semiconductor Business Development
NVIDIA
Nikola Nedovic
Senior Research Scientist
NVIDIA
Brian Zimmer
Research Scientist
NVIDIA
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NVIDIA is showcasing how the semiconductor ecosystem can accelerate digital transformation across chip design, manufacturing, and production. The event highlights how accelerated computing and AI technologies are powering smart factories and scaling semiconductor workloads.
The keynote, titled “The Next Generation of Chips Starts With AI,” will be presented by Tim Costa, General Manager of Industrial and Computational Engineering at NVIDIA. It will focus on how AI-driven supercomputing is transforming the future of chip manufacturing.
NVIDIA technologies accelerate design challenges by emulating AI and accelerated computing within electronic design automation (EDA) workflows. This approach helps tackle increasingly complex design requirements in the semiconductor industry.
Fab Digital Twins are true-to-life virtual replicas that allow manufacturers to conduct real-time simulation, process optimization, and collaborative factory planning. This enables manufacturers to simulate entire production stages before implementation.
Agentic AI uses sophisticated reasoning and planning to solve complex, multi-step problems. These systems ingest large amounts of data from multiple sources to develop strategies and complete tasks independently, enhancing overall production efficiency.
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