Utpal Shah

Utpal Shah is SVP at Tata Electronics leading Strategy, Business Development, and Foundry business. Before joining Tata Electronics, Utpal worked at Intel for 23 years in various engineering and business leadership positions across technology development, product design, high-volume manufacturing, and foundry services.

During his Intel tenure, he collaborated with supplier and partner ecosystem to drive technology innovations and HVM implementation for eight Intel technology nodes from 130nm to sub-10nm. Subsequently, Utpal led Intel’s Design Ecosystem of EDA, Design IP, and Design Services partners enabling design solutions to drive performance leadership across diverse product portfolio.

Utpal then became a founding member of Intel Foundry Services (IFS) and helped rapidly grow IFS into a billion-dollar revenue. He was instrumental in defining the inaugural foundry strategy, business plan, and winning anchor customers. Throughout his career, Utpal has dealt with various external partnerships and inorganic transactions. He is passionate about developing, building, and empowering teams to create a thriving work culture.

Utpal has BE and MS in Chemical Engineering and is a graduate of Stanford Executive Program.

Presentation Title

Pioneering AI Enabled Fab

Abstract

Building a Semiconductor Fab demands substantial capital investment, exceeding USD 10 billion, along with high operational cost. In this highly capital-intensive and competitive semiconductor manufacturing industry, there’s a constant need to enhance productivity, improve yield, minimize cycle time, and reduce costs. Achieving such manufacturing productivity excellence through application of smart manufacturing presents a transformative opportunity to meet these challenges effectively and create significant competitive advantage.

Tata Electronics is set to lead this initiative by establishing India’s first AI-enabled semiconductor Fab. This state-of-the-art facility will utilise advanced factory automation, data analytics, and machine learning to achieve industry-leading factory efficiency in wafer fabrication – a complex process that comprise of hundreds of manufacturing steps.

This presentation will explore the smart manufacturing elements integral to the AI-enabled Fab and detail out some real-world applications of advanced technologies across the wafer fabrication process.