Wednesday, October 14, 2026
10:30am–4:30pm
Artificial intelligence (AI) is scaling at a pace that is reshaping semiconductor roadmaps, data center design, and long-term infrastructure strategy. This promises many economic and social benefits, but this trajectory is now testing energy availability limits and power consumption has become the significant limiter to performance gains. The global “data center gold rush” is already straining energy grids around the world and may slow AI’s progress.
To address this formidable challenge, radical efficiency improvement in both performance and energy consumption is needed. This requires radical innovation, not just by individual segments, but by meaningful collaboration that “connects the dots” across the entire system stack.
SEMI, a global electronics industry association with ~4,000 member companies, is organizing this workshop under its Smart Data-AI Initiative; together with the city of San Jose. We are uniting the entire AI ecosystem – including devices, materials, packaging, photonics, quantum, architectures and algorithms. This is the fifth workshop in the series. Building on learnings from previous workshops, we are focusing on three high-impact areas – co-optimization of system-technology and hardware-software, and sustainable AI infrastructure operation. The overarching objective is to drive these from discussion to action. Please join leaders and experts from industry and academia in this exciting interactive workshop.
Session 1—Future of Computing: Emerging Quantum Revolution
Wednesday, October 14, 2026
10:30am–12:35pm PT
Session 2—Future of AI Computing: Bending the Curve for Radical Efficiency Improvement
Wednesday, October 14, 2026
2:00–4:30pm PT