[1] Young is a co-author of 50 research papers,[2] and has 71 patents[3] in switched capacitor circuits, DRAM, SRAM, BiCMOS, x86 clocking, Photonics and spintronics.

[4] Young obtained his PhD from University of California, Berkeley in 1978, working with David A. Hodges, developing the switched MOS capacitor circuits.

Young developed a Phase Locked Loop (PLL) based clocking circuit in a microprocessor while working on the 50 MHz Intel 80486 processor design.

He subsequently developed the core PLL clocking circuit building blocks used in each generation of Intel microprocessors through the 0.13 μm 3.2 GHz Pentium 4.

The clock rate scaling ushered by Intel and AMD ended as the thermal power dissipation of processors reached 100 W/cm^2.