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The Green Monster Stirs
by Bryon Moyer, IC Design and Verification Journal

The only thing limiting the crowd was the fact that it was an evening session. OK, a Sunday evening session. Um… ok, SuperBowl Sunday, actually. So...  all things considered, 75 people showing up for a panel on green design on Superbowl Sunday evening is pretty impressive. They even delayed the start for about five minutes to accommodate the dramatic SuperBowl finish only fifteen minutes earlier. Talk about yer hard act to follow… And so, performance anxiety thus having been injected, the ISSCC panel, “Green Electronics: Environmental Impacts, Power, E-Waste,” organized by AMI’s Jan Sevenhans and chaired by Infineon’s Rudolf Koch, got underway.

The panel consisted of a member of Greenpeace to set the context, followed by two representatives of the semiconductor manufacturing and packaging industries. The next obvious industry for a semiconductor audience was solar, followed by a couple presentations on green automotive. [more]