During the long holiday, SamPro TV featured some fascinating content. Professor Michael Sandel from Harvard University, famous for "Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?", issued a strong warning about Korean society. He stated that deepening inequality and meritocracy are threatening democracy, which could lead to
Semiconductor Engineers in the AI Era: At the Crossroads of Job Loss and Responsibility Up to 300 million jobs could disappear due to AI by 2030. — Goldman Sachs AI cannot replace people, but people who use AI... can do more work than many others. Ultimately, many people's jobs
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I'll avoid spoilers since some people might not have seen it yet. Instead, I want to explore why this movie is more meaningful now in 2025, and how it piques curiosity about the approaching AI era. I watched this movie while relaxing during the holidays, and the lingering
Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering: Is It Worth It for Digital Circuit Design? I've been receiving a lot of emails like this recently: "I'm a job seeker dreaming of becoming an RTL design engineer... I graduated in February this year but couldn'
I never really cared about what cities were on the East or West Coast of America. As I grew up, I learned something important: The East and West Coasts of America are as far apart as Korea and India. And just like that distance... their cultures and laws are different
Today, I'd like to summarize the paper "AlphaEvolve: A coding agent for Scientific and Algorithmic Discovery" published by Google DeepMind in 2025. AlphaEvolve: A Gemini-powered coding agent for designing advanced algorithmsNew AI agent evolves algorithms for math and practical applications in computing by combining the creativity
The presidential election is coming up soon. What I'm primarily interested in is technology policy. After all, 'exports' are Korea's only way to make a living. Korea has grown well as a Fast Follower, but we're still struggling with the next phase—
The semiconductor industry has been relentlessly pursuing Moore's Law for decades, constantly pushing the boundaries of what's possible in chip manufacturing. Despite extraordinary advancements in fabrication technology, terrestrial manufacturing faces increasingly formidable physical constraints. As we approach process nodes below 2nm, the conventional challenges of yield
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