Bio:

Dr. Babak Sabi Founder & Principal, Sabi Tech Advisory LLC
Dr. Babak Sabi is a veteran of the semiconductor industry with a career spanning more than four decades of technical and executive leadership. As the Founder of Sabi Tech Advisory LLC, he provides strategic counsel to global technology firms at the intersection of silicon manufacturing, advanced packaging, and cloud-scale AI infrastructure. Dr. Sabi’s career is defined by his long-standing tenure at Intel Corporation, where he served in several of the company’s most critical technical and operational roles. As Senior Vice President and General Manager of Assembly Test Technology Development (ATTD), he led the industrialization of the industry’s first 2.5D and 3D heterogeneous integration technologies. Crucially, Dr. Sabi also held a primary leadership role within Intel’s Corporate Quality Network (CQN). In this capacity, he was responsible for the rigorous quality and reliability standards required for high-volume manufacturing across multiple process nodes. Following his 40-year career at Intel, Dr. Sabi most recently served as Vice President of Technology at AWS (Annapurna Labs), where he oversaw the hardware engineering requirements for the world’s largest cloud infrastructure.

Abstract:

Hyperscalers are changing the landscape for chip development with specialized custom chips. They are becoming more vertically integrated. Additionally future challenges of Advanced Packaging are discussed.