Yuichi Motohashi

Yuichi Motohashi is the Senior Manager and Deputy Director of End Markets at GlobalFoundries, leading the global segment for automotive cameras, LiDAR, SerDes, and displays. With over 15 years of experience in the semiconductor industry, Yuichi has specialized in CMOS image sensors. He began their career at Sony in Japan, developing CMOS image sensors for automotive applications from the ground up and taking projects from the conceptual stage to mass production with various automotive customers. Yuichi served as product manager, overseeing several products mainly for US and EU customers.

After his tenure at Sony, Yuichi joined the Japanese start-up TIER IV, where he developed cutting-edge automotive cameras for their autonomous vehicle platform. Currently, at GlobalFoundries, Yuichi is responsible for sensing devices, including CMOS image sensors, SPAD, silicon photonics LiDAR, and display drivers for the automotive segment.

Yuichi holds a B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Tohoku University, Miyagi, Japan, earned in 2006 and 2008, respectively. Yuichi holds more than 30 CMOS image sensor related patents.