Mr. Jason SHIELDS
Vice Presient, Equipment Intelligence® Lam Research, United States
Jason Shields is Lam Research vice president of Equipment Intelligence®, a position he has held since June 2019. In this role he is responsible for interfacing Lam Research’s Equipment Intelligence® across the company to customers’ Smart Manufacturing roadmaps. Prior to his current position, he was general manager of Advanced Equipment and Process Control, where he oversees company strategy for this area. Before joining Lam in 2015, Mr. Shields was vice president of Integrated Metrology at Nanometrics. Earlier, he served as vice president of Brion Fab Products at ASML and held various technical marketing and program manager positions at KLA-Tencor. He began his career working in the areas of process, process integration, and yield enhancement at semiconductor manufacturer Advanced Micro Devices. Mr. Shields earned an MBA from Santa Clara University and a B.S. degree in physics from Texas A&M University.
Presentation Title :
Equipment Intelligence®: More Than Just a Smart Tool
As we strive to improve manufacturing yield and productivity, two significant paradigm shifts are enabling our future. The first is the use of big data and associated AI technologies. The second is increasing collaboration between different parties in the semiconductor ecosystem. Together, these changes are creating new opportunities to increase process tool uptime, reduce install times and improve good die out. Over the last three years, Lam has expanded collaborations with key customers to explore this new paradigm with excellent results. As we go forward, this partnership on big data will continue to be a key strategy for both Lam and our customers to create value in the semiconductor ecosystem.