Dr. James Chambers

Dr. James Chambers is Vice President of Silicon Engineering and Sourcing at NVIDIA.  In this role, he leads efforts to optimize semiconductor manufacturing in collaboration with external partners, driving improvements in yield, performance/power, reliability, quality, and delivery across NVIDIA’s GPU and CPU silicon product portfolio.  He is responsible for the end-to-end supply of internal and external NPI SoC samples, managing the silicon engineering interface with CPU, GPU, and memory vendors, and overseeing NVIDIA’s silicon failure analysis labs.  Dr. Chambers has a proven track record of leading technology, manufacturing, product development, and product management teams to deliver some of the industry’s most innovative solutions.  At AMD, he oversaw the Foundry Technology and Operations team, with responsibility for end-to-end process technology—from pathfinding through high-volume manufacturing—including AMD’s failure analysis labs.  Prior to AMD, he held various roles at Texas Instruments, contributing to Silicon Technology R&D for advanced low- and high-power process nodes.  He is the inventor or co-inventor of more than 50 patents and has authored 45 publications and technical presentations covering SiON, high-k dielectrics, metal gate electrodes, and advanced device architectures.