Award Ceremony to Be Held at the Korean Semiconductor Conference on the 13th
Lee Kang-wook, Vice President in charge of PKG Development at SK Hynix, and Professor Kim Jung-ho of the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) have been selected as recipients of the 'Kang Dae-won Award' honoring the late Dr. Kang Dae-won, who achieved a new milestone in semiconductor technology development.
The Steering Committee of the Korean Semiconductor Conference announced on the 12th that Vice President Lee and Professor Kim, who contributed to the development of High Bandwidth Memory (HBM), were selected as this year's awardees.
Vice President Lee received the award in the device and process category. He is a top technology expert in the semiconductor packaging field. Since 2018, he has led the development of packaging technology necessary for HBM products as the head of wafer-level package (WLP) development at SK Hynix. In particular, during the development of the third-generation HBM product, HBM2E, in 2019, he successfully introduced the MR-MUF technology, an innovative packaging technology, playing a crucial role in SK Hynix securing a leading position in the HBM market and advancing as a global AI memory leader.
Professor Kim Jung-ho, known as the 'Father of HBM,' receives the Kang Dae-won Award in the circuit and system category.
Professor Kim has led HBM-related design technology worldwide for the past 20 years and has been directly involved in the commercial design of HBM since 2010. He is currently researching next-generation HBM structures and architectures, including the sixth-generation HBM, HBM4.
The Kang Dae-won Award has been selected and presented by the Steering Committee of the Korean Semiconductor Conference since 2017 to honor the late Dr. Kang Dae-won, who was the world's first to develop the MOSFET and floating gate.
Meanwhile, the Steering Committee of the Korean Semiconductor Conference plans to hold the Kang Dae-won Award ceremony at the opening ceremony of the '32nd Korean Semiconductor Conference' on the afternoon of the 13th at the High1 Grand Hotel in Gangwon Province. This conference will be attended by more than 4,200 experts and students from industry, academia, and research in the semiconductor field, including semiconductor companies such as Samsung Electronics, SK Hynix, and DB HiTek, sharing research achievements with a record-breaking 1,659 papers presented.
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