The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) announced that Aart de Geus, Contents Chairman of the Board and founder, will receive the SIA’s highest award in 2024, the Robert N. Noyce Prize.
The chip industry association presents the Noyce Award, named after Intel founder and CEO Robert N. Noyce, annually to acknowledge a pacesetter who has made outstanding contributions to the semiconductor industry within the areas of technology or public policy.
The ceremony for de Geus will happen on the SIA Awards Dinner on November 21, 2024 in San Jose, California.
“Aart is a globally recognized thought leader and visionary within the semiconductor industry and has developed groundbreaking electronic design automation (EDA) technologies that provide the software tools critical to chip development,” said John Neuffer, president and CEO of SIA, in an announcement. “Throughout his profession
Over 4 a long time, Aart has made immeasurable contributions to our industry and
served as a robust and influential advocate for our priorities. We are pleased to honor him
with the 2024 Robert N. Noyce Award for his groundbreaking achievements.”
Synopsys is far more useful today than it was when de Geus founded the corporate within the Eighties. Earlier this 12 months, Synopsys announced it could acquire Ansys for $35 billion.
De Geus began his profession in 1982 at General Electric, where he developed fundamental tools for semiconductor design and verification. Synopsys, founded by Aart in 1986, initially developed and commercialized logic synthesis, which automates the creation of digital designs from language descriptions.
This capability ushered within the transition from computer-aided design (CAD) to the era of electronic design automation (EDA) by enabling and automating a long time of enormous digital complexity scaling, sometimes called Moore's Law. Under this law, named after former Intel CEO Gordon Moore, the variety of components of chips doubled every few years. It was a relentless metronome for progress for a long time, as chips are the inspiration of all electronic devices.
De Geus served as CEO of the corporate from 1994 to 2024. In recognition of his pioneering work, industry impact, and community commitment, de Geus has received quite a few awards, including Electronic Business Magazine's “CEO of the Year” (2002) and “Top 10 Most Influential Executives” (2005), the IEEE Robert N. Noyce Medal (2007), the Silicon Valley Leadership Group (SVLG) “Spirit of the Valley” Lifetime Achievement Award (2007), the Electronic System Design Association (ESDA) Phil Kaufman Award (2008), the GSA's “Morris Chang Exemplary Leadership Award” (2009), the Silicon Valley Engineering Council Hall
of Fame Award (2013) and an honorary doctorate from the University of Glasgow (2022).
De Geus is currently Chairman of the Board of Synopsys and continues to
oversees the management of Synopsys' business operations. He also serves on the board of directors of Applied Materials and is involved in business and the local people. He serves on the boards of the Silicon Valley Leadership Group (SVLG), the Global Semiconductor Alliance (GSA), and the Electronic System Design Alliance (ESDA).
De Geus can also be a member of the US National Academy of Engineering. In 1999, he founded the Synopsys Outreach Foundation, which promotes project-based learning in science and arithmetic throughout Silicon Valley, as he recognized early on the long run shortage of engineering professionals within the high-tech industry. For over 35 years, Synopsys has also actively promoted community engagement at its major global locations.
De Geus received a master's degree in electrical engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, Switzerland, and a Ph.D. from Southern Methodist University, Dallas.
“Receiving the 2024 Noyce Award is a fantastic honor and I’m humbled to be among the many exceptional individuals being recognized for his or her sustained contributions to our uniquely exponential industry,” de Geus said in an announcement. “Looking back, the move from CAD to EDA was truly a technonomic turning point, enabling an roughly 10 million-fold increase in digital design productivity.”
De Geus added: “With the complete integration of 3D multichips, semiconductor technology has now made the leap from scale to system complexity! Driven by the demand economics of AI and enabled by amazing AI-powered design workflows, we’re fully into the subsequent exponential era! It is so exhilarating to feel the decades-long opportunity that surrounds us and to be a part of our industry’s collective ingenuity that makes the inconceivable possible… over and once again!”
Previous winners include Sanjay Mehrotra of Micron Technology (2023), Lip-Bu Tan of Cadence Design Systems (2022), Jensen Huang of Nvidia (2021), Lisa Su of AMD (2020), and plenty of more since 1991.
