Who is “Campacasa”?
So you want to know who I am? May I introduce… Peter Kamphuis.
You may have recognized, “Campacasa” is just a spanish- or italian-like version of my family name “Kamphuis”. Which for itself is a typical Dutch name. Yes, I'm Dutch. I grew up in the south of the Netherlands, in Oosterhout. But, I'm living in Germany since many years already. In southern Germany, in München (Munich) to be more exact.
For any enqueries about this website you can contact me by email at:
webmaster(at)campacasa(dot)eu
Why “Campacasa”?
Well, that goes back to the year 1995. On July 24th, at work, I got a mail from my colleague Karsten S. It was one of a series of funny mails in which several colleagues appeared, at a time that a move of our department was planned to another nearby location. This episode was playing at Sicily, Italy in the early 1920's and instead of using the real names of the colleagues, Italian names were used. Guess who was meant with “Campacasa”. Well, and I was looking for a suitable name for my website. You may as well interprete the “casa” part as “house” or “home”, homepage thus…
Probably the story is only interesting for insiders of Siemens Semiconductor Group, or now Infineon Technologies and Intel Deutschland, in Munich. Those may also recognize several of the other (former) colleagues in the story.
.eu = Europe
In January 2007 I got my .eu domain.
Why .eu?
Well, I'm Dutch, I'm living in Germany, I'm having a French girlfriend, …
That sounds more European than just a single country.
I thought that .eu is more suitable than .nl, .de, .fr or whatever.
A Dutchman in Germany?
That was not planned ahead. In 1987 I did part of the practical year, as part of my studies (at HTS Breda), at Siemens in Munich. At that time the division where I worked was called “Unternehmensbereich Bauelemente” (“Components Division”). A good year later, in 1988, I returned for a few more months of temporary work until I needed to do my military services in the Netherlands. The division was renamed to “Halbleiter” (“Semiconductors”) meanwhile. My colleagues at work asked me whether I didn't want to return as regular employee. Being not too happy with my time spent at the military services I decided: Why not?! Well, and here I am, since March 1990. And I still am. In April 1999 the Siemens Semiconductor Group was spun off from the big Siemens company and continued as Infineon Technologies. Then in February 2011 the Wireless Business Division (doing the mobile telephone chips) of Infineon was taken over by Intel as “Intel Mobile Communications”. Together with other colleagues from one of the central Infineon departments I have joined Intel, one of the world's largest semiconductor chip makers (at the time). Meanwhile the IMC group was taken over again by Apple, but I stayed at Intel (“Intel Deutschland GmbH”). Conveniently we were still at the same site as Infineon, at Campeon, just south of Munich in Neubiberg. Because of cost saving measures, end of 2024 Intel management decided to close down some of the teams in Germany. I was part of that and accepted the termination contract. Then I was lucky: My old employer, Infineon, had interest to get me back. So, now I'm with Infineon again and still at the Campeon site, and among many old known colleagues and friends. Again within the central department, but as main task working with the automotive design teams.
Thank you Bruno, Marcel, Reinhard, Ulf, Günther, Christiane, Sepp, Thanh, Michael, Klaus, … for making my first stays at Siemens so interesting!
Siemens, Infineon, Intel, Infineon: Semiconductors and Chips…
Chip development thus. Most of my work life I have not been developing chips by myself, but I have been working in the area of providing a design system for those who develop the chips. My specialty used to be logic synthesis and related topics. The last years at Intel I have been providing design flow support for external foundry technologies, which are also used by Intel, next to their own technologies. Now back at Infineon I'm involved with their automotive micro controller chip projects.
Being introduced to 2µm and 1.5µm technologies a long time ago, today the most advanced chips are developed using 2nm technologies. That's a minimization factor of 1000 in less than 40 years. At Intel I was involved with technologies as small as 8nm.
2nm, that's 0.002µm or 0.000002mm! Imagine how many gates (transistors) fit on a small chip.