Pragmatic Semi is Breaking the Rules and Bending Silicon Electronics
Pragmatic Semiconductor Semiconductor’s Founder and Executive Director, Scott White , joins us to discuss their thin-film, low-cost alternative to traditional silicon manufacturing and their aim to disrupt applications from smart labeling to IoT sensors and fingerprint sensors.
While Moore’s Law scaling has driven incredible advancements in computing, AI, and smartphones, many applications don’t need or benefit from the most advanced semiconductor nodes. From its inception, Pragmatic Semiconductor’s goal has been to take a…well, pragmatic…approach to develop an ultra low-cost, fast cycle time alternative to traditional silicon processing. Oh, and did we mention that the resulting chips and wafers are also flexible?
You will definitely want to check out this Moore’s Lobby conversation between White and our host, Daniel Bogdanoff , as they dive into:
Meet Scott White
Pragmatic Semiconductor is Scott White’s sixth technology venture. Since founding the company nearly 15 years ago, Scott has led the development of a novel silicon thin-film technology and its associated manufacturing capabilities. Today, he is often focused on fundraising and leading new strategic initiatives.
Scott’s previous companies were in the fields of telecommunications, photonics, and machine learning. He has received a number of honors, including being named Deep Tech Entrepreneur of the Year in the 2022 Enterprise Awards and a Lifetime Fellow of the Bessemer Society in 2023.?
Scott has a 1st class degree in Pure and Applied Mathematics and Information Technology from the The University of Western Australia , where he studied neural networks and syntactic machine learning. He has over 50 patents and has lived and worked in Australia, Japan, Singapore, Indonesia, the US, and the UK.