November 2012 - Page 5 of 5 - Semiconductor Engineering

Experts At The Table: Obstacles In Low-Power Design

By Ed Sperling - 08 Nov, 2012 - Comments: 0

By Ed Sperling Low-Power/High-Performance Engineering sat down to discuss low-power design with with Leah Clark, associate technical director at Broadcom; Richard Trihy, director of design enablement at GlobalFoundries; Venki Venkatesh, engineering director at Atrenta; and Qi Wang, technical marketing group director at Cadence. What follows are excerpts of that conversation. LPHP: What are ... » read more

Cellular Stranglehold?

By Ann Mutschler - 08 Nov, 2012 - Comments: 0

Do you ever feel like you are completely at the mercy of your cellular service provider? Yeah, me too. Not only did I have to change providers when I relocated, I had to buy a new phone of course. Since my old phone and my new phone were both iPhones, I thought for sure I could use the same car charger….but no dice. This fact has bothered me for quite some time because it made no sense to ... » read more

ARM Vs. Intel, Phase Two

By Ed Sperling - 07 Nov, 2012 - Comments: 0

From 60,000 feet, ARM’s TechCon and the Intel Developer Forum look remarkably similar. The key message from both is a focus on improving performance in processors while significantly lowering power. Intel wants a piece of the mobile market so badly it can taste it. And ARM, which is the primary processing engine inside of the iPhone and one of a couple in Android-based devices—MIPS has ... » read more

Experts At The Table: Issues In Lithography

By Ed Sperling - 05 Nov, 2012 - Comments: 0

By Mark LaPedus Semiconductor Manufacturing & Design sat down to discuss future lithography challenges with Juan Rey, senior director of engineering at Mentor Graphics; Aki Fujimura, chairman and chief executive at D2S; and Tatsuo Enami, general manager for the sales division at Gigaphoton. What follows are excerpts of that conversation. SMD: What is the general state of the next-genera... » read more

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