Week In Review: Manufacturing, Test

By Mark LaPedus - 01 Oct, 2021 - Comments: 0

Market research For some time, the semiconductor industry has experienced acute shortages. The automotive industry has suffered the most. When will this all end? “Shortages have become more acute for many products in the near term because the growth in demand is greater than the increase in wafer and packaging capacity that was anticipated by the foundry and semiconductor vendors. To date... » read more

Week In Review: Design, Low Power

By Jesse Allen - 01 Oct, 2021 - Comments: 0

Valens Semiconductor began trading on the New York Stock Exchange as VLN after a merger with special-purpose acquisition company (SPAC) PTK Acquisition Corp. Valens offers high-speed connectivity chips for the audio-video and automotive markets, including its HDBaseT technology for connectivity between ultra-HD video sources and remote displays and its in-vehicle high-speed links. The transacti... » read more

Week In Review: Auto, Security, Pervasive Computing

By SE Staff - 01 Oct, 2021 - Comments: 0

Automotive GM’s self-driving car Cruise and Alphabet’s Waymo have won permits to offer rides to passengers in California. Ford Motor Company announced it is expanding its electric pickup truck assembly lines. With SK Innovation, Ford will create a 3,600-acre mega campus in west Tennessee to produce electric trucks. The company estimates the campus will add 6,000 new jobs to the economy.... » read more

Open Cavity Plastic Packaging

By Ed Sperling - 30 Sep, 2021 - Comments: 0

Rapid change in electronics is also causing rapid obsolescence. But in some markets, the systems are supposed to last for decades. Sam Sadri, senior process engineer at QP Technologies (formerly Quik-Pak), talks with Semiconductor Engineering about why it’s so important to use existing package footprints, what are the challenges in replacing the circuitry inside a package, and which markets a... » read more

Overview Of Medical Chip Challenges

By SE Staff - 30 Sep, 2021 - Comments: 0

Medical devices are adopting, and increasingly adapting, a variety of semiconductor technologies to provide new functions and capabilities in smaller form factors. In doing so, they are leveraging increasing processing capabilities, lower power, and new types of sensors to propel health care forward. Many different chip types have been used in medical devices for years, many of them develope... » read more

Optimizing AI Systems

By Ed Sperling - 29 Sep, 2021 - Comments: 0

Inserting AI and machine learning into chips adds a whole new dimension of complexity, and creates a variety of potential problems, including deadlocks, loss of performance, and difficulty in achieving closure on many fronts. Gajinder Panesar, fellow at Siemens EDA, talks with Semiconductor Engineering about what’s changed and how to optimize these new devices and systems by monitoring them f... » read more

Blog Review: Sept. 29

By Jesse Allen - 29 Sep, 2021 - Comments: 0

Cadence's Paul McLellan checks out two of the biggest chips presented at the recent Hot Chips: a graphics chip from Intel for an upcoming supercomputer and Cerebras' wafer-scale AI chip. Synopsys' Datsen Davies Tharakan lists the top five design challenges for electric vehicles and power semiconductors and why a robust design flow can accelerate the growth of hybrid and electric vehicles goi... » read more

EDA Vendors Widen Use Of AI

By Ed Sperling - 29 Sep, 2021 - Comments: 0

EDA vendors are widening the use of AI and machine learning to incorporate multiple tools, providing continuity and access to consistent data at multiple points in the semiconductor design flow. While gaps remain, early results from a number of EDA tools providers point to significant improvements in performance, power, and time to market. AI/ML has been deployed for some time in EDA. Still,... » read more

Manufacturing Bits: Sept. 28

By Mark LaPedus - 28 Sep, 2021 - Comments: 0

Self-healing ceramics Texas A&M University has discovered a new self-healing mechanism for ceramics, a technology that could one day be used for jet engines, hypersonic aircraft and nuclear reactors. Ceramics involve various materials that are neither metallic nor organic, but rather they are crystalline and/or glassy, according to the University of Maryland. One common example is clay,... » read more

3D IC: Opportunities, Challenges, And Solutions

By Kenneth Larsen - 28 Sep, 2021 - Comments: 0

Nearly every big city reaches a point in its evolution when it runs out of open space and starts building vertically. This enables far more apartments, offices and people per square mile, while avoiding the increased infrastructure costs of suburban sprawl. Semiconductors are evolving in much the same way. Moore’s Law is slowing, and adoption of new advanced technology nodes is slowing as wel... » read more

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