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Pandemic Challenges, Technology Answers

As the global community was caught off guard with the pandemic, semiconductor industry dealt with unexpected swings in applications and demands. Health crisis created an immediate need for social distancing that disconnected and disrupted human interactions, and technology had to step up on short notice to mend and reconnect communities. In this paper, we share the insights we gained as the semiconductor technologists who were called to provide solutions in a nimble and yet comprehensive manner to deal with the unexpected, and offer our vision and new model for the foundries, not just as the manufacturers, but as solution providers. The new market reality dominated by "untact" and "connect" demand differentiated strategies in providing foundry solutions, which include close engagement with customers in earlier stages of technology R&D, as well as design infrastructure tailored to customers’ specific requirements. We present our vision to drive such change in foundry technology directions.