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Ann Mutschler

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Ann Mutschler is senior executive editor at Semiconductor Engineering.

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Chiplets Add New Power Issues
By Ann Mutschler - 13 Mar, 2025 - Comments: 0

Delivering and managing power are becoming key challenges in the rollout of chiplets, adding significantly to design complexity and forcing chipmakers to weigh tradeoffs that can have a big impact on the performance, reliability, and the overall cost of semiconductors. Power is a concern for every chip and chiplet design, even if the specifics differ based on the application. Systems vendors... » read more

Automakers Grapple With Fundamental Tech Changes
By Ann Mutschler - 06 Mar, 2025 - Comments: 0

Automotive OEMs are wrestling with a stack of changes that affect every part of their business and technology, from threats of tariffs and shifting geopolitical alliances, to new vehicle architectures, tighter market windows, and a fundamental reordering of relationships and priorities between OEMs and their suppliers. There is no consistency to these developments or a best path to solving t... » read more

Verification Experts Vs. Generalists
By Ann Mutschler - 05 Mar, 2025 - Comments: 0

Experts At The Table: As chips and systems become more complicated, more verification tasks get abstracted. So do we need more specialists who are experts in specific tasks, or do we need more generalists who know how to use the tools but don't necessarily have the depth of understanding? Or do we need some way to balance both? Semiconductor Engineering sat down with a panel of experts, includi... » read more

Lines Blurring Between Supercomputing And HPC
By Ann Mutschler - 27 Feb, 2025 - Comments: 1

Supercomputers and high-performance computers are becoming increasingly difficult to differentiate due to the proliferation of AI, which is driving huge performance increases in commercial and scientific applications and raising similar challenges for both. While the goals of supercomputing and high-performance computing (HPC) have always been similar — blazing fast processing — the mark... » read more

ADAS Adds Complexity To Automotive Sensor Fusion
By Ann Mutschler - 17 Feb, 2025 - Comments: 0

Sensor fusion is becoming increasingly popular and more complex in automotive designs, integrating multiple types of sensors into a single chip or package and intelligently routing data to wherever it is needed. The primary goal is to bring together information from cameras, radar, lidar, and other sensors in order to provide a detailed view of what's happening inside and outside of a vehicl... » read more

Signal Integrity Plays Increasingly Critical Role In Chiplet Design
By Ann Mutschler - 13 Feb, 2025 - Comments: 1

Maintaining the quality and reliability of electrical signals as they travel through interconnects is proving to be much more challenging with chiplets and advanced packaging than in monolithic SoCs and PCBs. Signal integrity is a fundamental requirement for all chips and systems, but it becomes more difficult with chiplets due to reflections, loss, crosstalk, process variation, and various ... » read more

Automotive Outlook 2025: Ecosystem Pivots Around SDV
By Ann Mutschler - 06 Feb, 2025 - Comments: 0

The automotive industry is deep in the throes of a massive shift to software-defined vehicle architectures, a multi-year effort that will change the way automotive chips are designed, where they are used, and how they are sourced. Creating a new vehicle architecture is no small feat. OEMs need to figure out who to partner with and which aspects of their current architecture to include. This ... » read more

Design Customization Puts Heavy Burden On Verification
By Ann Mutschler - 30 Jan, 2025 - Comments: 0

Experts At The Table: The pressure on verification engineers to ensure a device will function correctly has increased exponentially as chips become more complex and heterogeneous. Semiconductor Engineering sat down with a panel of experts, including Josh Rensch, director of application engineering at Arteris; Matt Graham, senior group director for verification software product management at Cad... » read more

Automotive OEMs Face Multiple Technology Adoption Challenges
By Ann Mutschler - 22 Jan, 2025 - Comments: 0

Experts At The Table: The automotive ecosystem is in the midst of significant change. OEMs and tiered providers are grappling with how to deal with legacy technology while incorporating ever-increasing levels of autonomy, electrification, and software-defined vehicle concepts, just to name a few. Semiconductor Engineering sat down to discuss these and other related issues with Wayne Lyons, seni... » read more

Auto Ecosystem Begins Shift To Software-First
By Ann Mutschler - 30 Dec, 2024 - Comments: 0

Experts at the Table: The automotive ecosystem is in the midst of an intense evolution as OEMs and tiered providers grapple with how to deal with legacy technology while incorporating ever-increasing levels of autonomy, electrification, and software-defined vehicle concepts. Semiconductor Engineering sat down to discuss these and other related issues with Wayne Lyons, senior director for the au... » read more

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