Here is a list of all distinguished speakers from 1990-2007, and
some impressions from speeches held during previous conferences.

List of Distinguished Speakers 1990-2007:

SOCC 2007 -  Hsinchu, Taiwan - 20th Anniversary Keynote: Jackson Hu Chairman and CEO, United Microelectronics Corporation ”Will Moore’s Law continue ?” Plenary: Dave Holt President and CEO, Lightspeed Logic, Inc. ”Beyond Standard Cells” Plenary: Heinrich Meyr Director, Institute for Integrated Signal Processing Systems, Aachen University of Technology ”A future of heterogeneous many processor SoCs: Nightmare or a necessary paradigm change?” Luncheon: Sheng-Chun (Paul) Lo Sr. VP and GM, Analog/Mixed-Signal Group, Synopsys

SOCC 2006 -  Austin, TX Keynote: Gene Frantz Principal Fellow, Texas Instruments “How the Shrinking System is creating an Expanding Market” Plenary: Jan Rabaey Donald O. Pederson Distinguished Professor, University of California at Berkeley “Curing the ailments of nanometer CMOS through self-healing and resiliency” Plenary: Jim Kahle IBM Fellow and Director of Technology, STI Design Center for Cell Technology, IBM Corporation Luncheon: Dean Cubley Director and Chairman, ERF Wireless Director, Eagle Broadband Inc. “The Wild West Days of NASA”

SOCC 2005 -  Washington, DC Keynote: Hans Stork   Senior VP & CTO, Texas Instruments, Inc. “Advanced CMOS Technology for Digital Communication Systems“ Plenary: Ivo Bolsens Vice President and CTO, Xilinx “FPGA, The Heart of Embedded Systems” Plenary: Jacques Benkoski Entrepreneur in Residence, US Venture Partners “The Evolving Silicon Infrastructure: Issues and Opportunities” Luncheon: Rajesh Galivanche Principal Engineer, Intel “Test Challenges for Nanometer Designs”

2004 - Santa Clara, CA Keynote: Paul E. Jacobs   Executive VP and President, QUALCOMM Wireless & Internet Group     “Beyond Voice: The third Generatin of Wireless” Plenary: Kiyoo Itoh Fellow, Hitachi Ltd.     “Review and Prospects of Low-Voltage RAM Circuits” Plenary: James D. Meindl Director, Microelectronics Research Center, Georgia Institute of Technology     “The Interconnect Era of ASIC/SOC Technology” Banquet: Michael Riordan Adjunct Professor, University of California, Santa Cruz     “The Roots of Silicon Valley” Luncheon: Jürgen Koehl Distinguished Engineer, IBM Systems and Technology Group     “IBM ASIC Design TAT Reducton”

2003 - Portland, OR Keynote: Hyung Kyu Lim   President, System LSI Business, Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.     “Expanding Mobile Space: Challenges and Opportunities” Plenary: Mi-Chang Chang Director of Design Service Division, TSMC Plenary: Dennis Buss Vice President, Silicon Technology Development,Texas Instruments     “CMOS SoC Technology For PERSONAL INTERNET PRODUCTS” Banquet: Gene Frantz Principal Fellow, Texas Instruments     “A History of Speak-and-Spell and How DSP Evolved”

2002 - Rochester, NY Keynote: Hirokazu Hashimoto, Senior Vice President, NEC Electron Devices, NEC Corporation Chairman, NEC Electronics Inc. Plenary: Tom Bednar Senior Technical Staff Member, IBM Microelectronics Banquet: Kumar Krishen Fellow, Society for Design And Process Science (SDPS)     “New Technologies that can Support Human Exploration of Space”

2001 - “SoC in a Networked World” - Arlington, VA      (Cancelled because of Sept. 11 attacks) Keynote: Hirokazu Hashimoto, President and CEO, NEC Electronics Inc. Plenary: Behzad Razavi University of California, Los Angeles, and Transpectrum Technologies     “Challenges in IC Design for Optical Communication Systems” Plenary: Peter Robinson API NetWorks     “HyperTransport Technology for Networking” Banquet: John Tanner President & CEO, Tanner Research Inc.     “Low Volume Manufacture of Chips, Boards, and Enclosures”

2000 - “System-on-Chip in the Internet Age” - Arlington, VA Keynote: John E. Kelly, III Senior Vice President & Group Executive, Technology Group, IBM Corp.     "Communications System-on-a-chip - Opportunity and Challenges" Plenary: Wolfgang Roethig NEC Electronics     "Design for Signal Integrity on SoC" Luncheon: James Urquhart Chief Operating Officer and Director, ARM Holdings plc.

1999 - “The Road to System-on-Chip (SOC)” - Arlington, VA Keynote: Wilfred J. Corrigan Chairman and CEO, LSI Logic Corporation     "System-on-a-chip in the Internet Economy" Plenary: James D. Meindl Director, Microelectronics Research Center, Georgia Institute of Technology     "Opportunities and Persistent Limits on a GSI System-on-a-Chip" Plenary: Yervant Zorian Chief Technology Advisor, LogicVision, Inc.     "System-on-Chip Test Strategies" Plenary: Kensall D. Wise Director, Center for Integrated Microsystems, University of Michigan     “INTEGRATED MICROSYSTEMS:  Merging MEMS, Micropower Electronics, and Wireless Communications” Banquet: Leon Chua Director of Nonlinear Electronics Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley     "Nanostructures and Cellular Neural Networks" Luncheon: Juri Matisoo and Ram Krishnamurthy Vice President of Technology, Silicon Industry Association Intel Corp.     "SIA’s International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors"

1998 - “ULSI - Making it Real” - Rochester, NY Keynote: Raul Camposano Chief Technical Officer, Senior Vice President & General Manager Design Tools, Sysopsys Inc.     "Design Technology for System on a Chip" Banquet: James F. Bell III Cornell University Dept. of Astronomy     "NASA Mars Rovers and Orbiters: Imaging the Geologic History of the Red Planet" Luncheon: Vic Kulkarni Head of Library Business Unit, Avant! Corporation     "Silicon Intellectual Property: The Passport to System-on-a-Chip"

1997 - “Portable Solutions” - Portland, OR Keynote: Eli Harari President & CEO, SanDisk Corporation     "Flash Memory-the Universal Digital Storage Medium for the Coming Age of Consumer Electronics" Banquet: John Tanner President & CEO, Tanner Research Inc.     "The Future of EDA: An Alternative View" Luncheon: Levy Gerzberg President & CEO, Zoran Corp.     "Entrepreneurship in the U.S."

1996 - “VLSI Systems Solutions” - Rochester, NY Keynote: Walter Davis Senior Vice President and Director of Strategic Semiconductor Operations for the Messaging Systems Products Group, Motorola, Inc     "The Role of VLSI in Wireless Communication" Banquet: Irwin Federman Senior Partner, US Venture Partners     “Venture Capital Perspectives on the Information Technology Revolution” Luncheon: Charles (Bob) Hewes Texas Instruments     “The Convergence of DSP and ASIC”

1995 - “Implementing the Information Superhighway with Emerging Technologies” - Austin, TX Keynote: Peng H. Ang Vice President and General Manager Consumer Products Division, LSI Logic Corporation     “ASIC Technology: The Driving force behind the Information Superhighway” Banquet: Brad Cox George Mason University     "Taming the Electronic Frontier" Luncheon: David M. Williams Director of Home Media Lab, Intel     “The Soul of a New Medium - Musings on the Information Superhighway”

1994 - Rochester, NY Keynote: Ron Smith General Manager PCI Components Division, Intel Corporation     “Performance Issues for PCs in the Consumer Market” Banquet: Robert A. Pease National Semiconductor     "What's All This Feedback Stuff?" Luncheon: Arpad G. Toth Imaging Research Laboratories, Eastman Kodak     “Image Enabled Multimedia Communications”

1993 - Rochester, NY Keynote: Aart J. de Geus President, Synopsys, Inc.     “One Million Gate ASIC? Not with Present EDA Tools and Methodology!” Banquet: V. Michael Bove, Jr. MIT Media Laboratory     "Hardware and Software Implications of Representing Scenes as Data" Luncheon: Richard S. Wolff Director, Personal Communications Applications Research, Bellcore     “Personal Communications Applications: New Opportunities and Challenges for ASIC Designers”

1992 - Rochester, NY Keynote: Hal Alles Chief Architect, Mentor Graphics Corp.     “ICs and ASICs at Thirty-Something” Keynote: S. Samuel Liu President, Silicon Integrated Systems Corp., Taiwan R.O.C.     ”ASICs in the 90's -- an Asia Pacific Perspective” Banquet: Bruce R. Bourbon President and CEO, Vertex Semiconductor Corp, a Toshiba Subsidiary     "The Design Gap" Luncheon: Michael J. Barry CD Imaging Development, Eastman Kodak Company     “The Photo CD Imaging System”

1991 - Rochester, NY Keynote: Frederick T. Tucker Senior Vice President, General Manager Automotive and Industrial Group, Motorola Inc.     “ASICs in the Automotive Industry” Keynote: Tommy Ng General Manager of ICCAD Advanced Design Automation, Mentor Graphics Corp.     ”Design Methodology in High Complexity ASIC Design” Keynote: Douglas B. Boyle Director, Hardware Engineering, Sun Microsystems Engineering     “CAD Requirements for High-Volume, High Performance, Low Cost Designs” Banquet: David G. Richardson Vice President, Integrated Components, Northern Telecom Electronics, Ontario, Canada     "ASICs and High Performance Telecommunication Systems" Luncheon: Bruce McWilliams Senior Vice President, Chief Technical Officer, nCHIP, Inc.     “Multichip Modules Today and Tomorrow”

1990 - Rochester, NY Keynote: Rajinder Khosla Director, Microelectronics Technology Division Research Labs, Eastman Kodak     “System Integration using ASICs in the 90's” Keynote: Robert Walker Vice President, Technical Marketing, LSI Logic Corp.     “ASIC Tests in the Nineties” Keynote: James A. Rowson Fellow, VLSI Technology Inc.     “1990's ASIC CAD: Getting the System Right” Keynote: Robert B. Johnson Vice President, ASIC Division, National Semiconductor Corp.     Single Vendor Solution Banquet: Charles P. Holt Vice President, Systems Reprographic Development Unit, Xerox Corp.     "The Document Processing Explosion of the 90s" Luncheon: Walter Kleinfelder Senior Research Manager, IBM Watson Research Center     “Research Parallel Processor Prototype”

Hans Stork (left), Senior VP & CTO, Texas Instruments, Inc., receiving congratulations from Program Chair Ram Krishnamurthy for his outstanding keynote at SOCC’05 Ivo Bolsens (above) and Jacques Benkoski (right) gave plenary speeches at SOCC’05 The Luncheon presentation held by Intel’s Rajesh Galivanche (left) and the panel discussion moderated by Tom Bednar, IBM, (above right) were well received at SOCC’05. Below: Several vendors took the opportunity to show  their products to the SOCC’05 attendees during the exhibition. James D. Meindl (above), Director, Microelectronics Research Center, Georgia Institute of Technology, and Kiyoo Itoh (left), Fellow, Hitachi Ltd, gave plenary talks at SOCC 2004. Paul E. Jacobs, Executive VP and President, QUALCOMM Wireless & Internet Group, during his SOCC 2004 Keynote Right: Back to the roots of Silicon Valley, with the help of SOCC 2004 Banquet Speaker Michael Riordan, Adjunct Professor, University of California, Santa Cruz Above: SOCC 2004 Luncheon Speaker Jürgen Koehl, Distinguished Engineer, IBM System and Technology Group, receives his plaque from Program Chair Dong Ha. Pat Sullivan, Intellectual Capital Management Group, Inc., moderating the SOCC03 panel discussion on IP protection. “...and here goes your IP profit for the singing, multi-colored coffee mug...” Hyung Kyu Lim (right), President, System LSI Business, Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. receiving a gift from the Conference Chair John Chickanosky, after his keynote at SOCC 2003 The “TI Table” at the SOCC 2003 Banquet From left to right: Committee Member Thanh Tran, Plenary Speaker Dennis Buss, Committee Member Andrew Marshall, and Banquet Speaker Gene Frantz John E. Kelly, III, (right) Senior Vice President & Group Executive, Technology Group, IBM Corp.,receives the ASIC/SOC Clock from the Conference Chair Thomas Büchner, after delivering his keynote at ASIC/SOC 2000 Wilfred Corrigan, Chairman and CEO, LSI Logic Corp., during his keynote address at ASIC/SOC´99 James Meindl, Director, Microelectronics Research Center, Georgia Institute of Technology (left), and Wilfred Corrigan, Chairman and CEO, LSI Logic Corp. are discussing the future of System-on-Chip design with an ASIC/SOC´99 attendee. (above and left) Raul Camposano, Chief Technical Officer, Senior Vice President & General Manager Design Tools, Sysopsys Inc. held the keynote speech at ASIC´98 (left) James F. Bell III, Cornell University Dept. of Astronomy, gave insights into NASA´s Mars program at the ASIC´98 Banquet Dinner