Dr. Gaurav Gupta is a VP Analyst in the Emerging Trends and Technologies team. Dr. Gupta provides advice on the entire semiconductor manufacturing and design value chain including capital spending, advanced packaging, process technologies, AI analytics, and chip industry economics and geopolitical impact. Dr. Gupta also covers emerging areas within the automotive industry, such as autonomous vehicles, evolving vehicle architecture, and automotive cloud. Dr Gupta's latest research expands into future energy-efficient compute technologies for evolving AI/GenAI workloads, including new paradigms, such as Quantum Computing, Custom Silicon, and Liquid Cooling. Physical AI is another new research frontier that Dr. Gupta is focused on. Additionally, Dr. Gupta has responsibility of being Vendor Lead Analyst for Nvidia.
Prior to joining Gartner, Dr. Gupta worked as a Knowledge Expert at McKinsey & Co. where he advised clients across the globe in the semiconductor and electronics industry with a focus on business transformation (cost, operations, and growth) and product strategy (launch/development/planning). He has a strong technical background in the semiconductor industry in process, yield, R&D, and integration, having worked at Intel and IBM prior to the stint with McKinsey & Co.
IBM, Advisory Engineer, 4 years
Intel, Senior Engineer, 4 years
McKinsey & Co., Knowledge Expert, 2 years
Technology Market Essentials
Emerging Technologies and Trends Impact on Products and Services
Innovate with Emerging Technologies Adoption
Ph.D., Materials Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
B.Tech, Materials Science, IIT Roorkee, India
Semiconductor chip manufacturing and design supply chain and Roadmap & business model (technology/process) in the semiconductor industry, AI analytics in chip industry
Business opportunities, evolution, ecosystem and technologies for autonomous vehicles (self-driving vehicles) and vehicle E/E architecture evolution with automotive cloud
future of compute with energy and/or power efficiency as a primary incentive, including data center liquid cooling; Physical AI; Sovereign AI; Confidential AI
Quantum computing - hardware technology, use cases, ecosystem
Market trends, forecast and share for semiconductor manufacturing equipment, capex and fab capacity, advanced process technologies, EDA, custom silicon