Since it began in 1989, Hot Chips has been known as one of the semiconductor industry's leading conferences on high-performance microprocessors and related integrated circuits. The conference is held once a year in August on the Stanford University campus in the center the world's capital of electronics activity, Silicon Valley. The emphasis this year, as in of previous years, is on real products and realizable technology. Topics of interest for this year's conference include:

· High-performance microprocessors
· Single-chip multiprocessors
· Embedded processors
· Low-power chips
· Systems-on-chip
· Performance evaluation
· Novel compiler technology
· Special-function processors: DSP, multimedia, network
· Special-function chips: graphics, security, communications
· Binary translation
· Operating system/chip interaction
· Nano and quantum computing
· Integrated MEMS devices
· Advanced semiconductor process technology

Presentations at Hot Chips are in the form of 30-minute talks. Presentation slides will be published in the Hot Chips Proceedings. Participants are not required to submit written papers, but a select group will be invited to submit a paper for inclusion in a special issue of IEEE Micro. Submissions must consist of a title, abstract (three pages maximum), and the presenter's contact information (name, affiliation, job title, address, phone, fax, and email). Please indicate whether you have submitted or intend to submit a similar submission to another conference or journal. Also indicate if you would like the submission to be held confidential until the conference; we will do our best to maintain confidentiality. Submissions are evaluated by the Program Committee on the basis of the performance of the device, degree of innovation, use of advanced technology, and potential market significance. Authors will be notified of the status of their submission by the end of April, 2002. Don't miss this chance to present your device to an audience of the leading technologists in the world of semiconductors. Submissions must be received no later than March 15, 2002. Please make your submissions in Adobe Acrobat PDF format by email to: hotchips@eecs.berkeley.edu