Irene Deng

About the Speaker

Irene Deng is executive vice president and general manager of Power and Energy at NXP Semiconductors. In this role, she is responsible for overseeing strategy, product innovation and execution, technology leadership, and financial performance for the business. With more than 20 years of experience in the semiconductor and technology industries, Irene has driven transformative growth and innovation across global businesses, delivered revenue growth and profitability, shaped investment strategies that strengthen market leadership, and built alignment across cross-functional teams.

Power is the New Compute: How energy intelligence will define the next era of semiconductors

Overview

For decades, our semiconductor industry measured progress by Moore’s law, transistor density, compute performance, software capabilities. The next decade is increasingly constrained by available energy, power delivery, thermal limits, battery life, and system efficiency.

The fundamental question is no longer “How much compute can we build?”, but “How intelligently can we manage, convert, distribute, and optimize energy to unlock that compute? ” This is an era where Power & Energy becomes a form of intelligence.

Why it is highly correlated to verification innovation:
1. The future challenges will be about verifying whether an intelligent system makes the right energy decisions under different operating conditions, not just verifying functionality and performance matrix.
2. Interaction between the compute and power becomes a critical system verification challenge. AI is uniquely valuable here.

Key Points

• The new compute performance is limited by available energy, power delivery, thermal limits, battery life, and system efficiency
• Power & Energy becomes a form of intelligence
• Interaction between the compute and power becomes a critical system verification challenge. AI is uniquely valuable here