Market‑Driven Obsolescence: Semiconductor Design Realities

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Learn how today’s semiconductor market forces—from AI to obsolescence—impact long‑term system design decisions.

The semiconductor industry is entering an unprecedented period of change. AI-driven demand, pricing volatility, packaging shifts, and accelerating obsolescence are reshaping the market—and the design decisions engineers make today will determine system cost, availability, and risk for decades to come. 

Join Dan Deisz, VP of Design Technology at Rochester Electronics, as he explores how semiconductor market trends impact long‑life systems. Learn a practical framework for evaluating suppliers, architectures, and packaging with a focus on sustainability and obsolescence.

Rather than focusing on short-term performance metrics, this session examines how market alignment, lifecycle position, and architectural decisions affect total cost of ownership, supply continuity, and redesign risk over 15+ year system lifetimes.

What You’ll Learn:

• What’s Really Driving the Semiconductor Market Today
• Understand how AI, automotive, and portable electronics are reshaping foundries, memory availability, and pricing structures—and why non‑AI markets feel the impact.
• How Design Choices Create—or Prevent—Future Obsolescence
• Learn the four primary causes of semiconductor obsolescence and what each one signals about your options when a product goes end‑of‑life.
• Which Supplier Strategies Increase Long‑Term Risk - Identify which semiconductor companies and product portfolios are best aligned—or misaligned—with long‑life system requirements.
• Architectures and Packaging Decisions that Matter Long-term - Explore why CPU architecture, memory choices, and packaging trends can dramatically affect sustainment cost and system flexibility decades later.