Chenming Hu

Chenming Calvin Hu is Distinguished Professor of Microelectronics at University of California, Berkeley. From 2001-2004, he was the Chief Technology Officer of TSMC, world’s largest IC foundry. IEEE, the world’s largest technical association, called him “microelectronics visionary,… whose seminal work on metal-oxide semiconductor MOS reliability and device modeling has had enormous impact on the continued scaling of electronic devices”. He is a member of the US National Academy of Engineering, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Academia Sinica.

One of Hu’s more famous contributions is a promising MOS field-effect transistor (MOSFET) called the FinFET (which Intel called this recently as a "3D transistor"). As the team leader, and using conventional technology, Hu co-developed a multiple-gate transistor that allows much smaller transistors to be built. Hu also contributed to the creation of the BSIM (Berkeley Short-Channel IGFET Model) series of compact models. Chosen by the industry as the first international transistor model standards, these models enable accurate circuit simulation for efficient integrated circuit design. Most major chip manufacturers have used BSIM model for IC products. A pioneer in transistor reliability modeling, Hu developed widely used CMOS device reliability models.