Maury Wood
VP Strategic Marketing
Vicor
Maury Wood is VP of Strategic Marketing at Vicor, focusing on the most challenging power delivery markets, including AI computing. Prior to Vicor, Maury held senior roles in the fiber optic test industry and in the semiconductor industry. He attended the University of Michigan and received additional education at MIT and Northeastern University in Boston.
Presentations
A Closer Look at Vertical Power Delivery for AI Processors
Designing power delivery solutions for the latest generative AI processors is becoming more and more challenging. These power delivery networks must be optimized for low PCB thermal dissipation, impose little or no processor clock or thermal throttling, comply with tight signal integrity specifications, and support the brutal transient demands for current that arises with changing AI algorithmic workloads. As GPU multi-die chiplet packages grow ever larger, packing in hundreds of billions of transistors, utilizing the latest semiconductor process technologies at lower core supply rails from generation to generation, these challenges (including thermal management) become significantly more extreme. This presentation will describe the complex mechanical stackup of these state-of-the art processors, and how vertical power delivery combined with factorized power architecture can navigate through these multidisciplinary constraints.