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Chip Industry Week In Review

14A PDKs; 2nm funding; memory deal; optimizing EUV output; KGD screening; McKinsey's auto chips report; HW security exploits; humanoids; H-1B polic...

Chip Industry Week In Review

Computex shows AI ecosystem; fully autonomous chip design; Intel targets AI racks; Nikon's 1.5 micron L/S litho; IC market rises; Apple's chiplet ...

Chip Industry Week In Review

AI panel-level packaging innovations at ECTC; cool HBM; 2nm EDA tools; side-channel attacks in 2.5/3D; Huawei claims; IC talent initiative; glass c...

Chip Industry Week In Review

Taiwan, Europe packaging buildout; 2nm ramps; quantum big $; 2 new university hubs; agent honeypots; Samsung strike averted; extreme environment ch...

Chip Industry Week in Review

Tata-ASML deal; what happened to H200 chips for China? $1.5T IC industry by 2030; new funding; AI memory tools; MRC spec; embedding solar chips in ...

Chip Industry Week In Review

New Taiwan adv. packaging site; M&A activity; GF's CPO solution; Apple looks beyond TSMC; EU chip companies map; strong earnings; MIT's new lidar c...

Chip Industry Week in Review

Google's TPUs now for sale; 2/3nm capacity crunch; IC tool sales to China stopped; memory shortage widens in 2027; mega-earnings; Arm's agentic too...

Chip Industry Week In Review

Marvell's photonics buy; Onto's process control stake; TSMC A14/13 and EDA flows; Apple shuffle; LPDDR6; SOCAMM2 chipset; MATCH Act progress; EUV r...

Chip Industry Week In Review

From shoes to GPUs; super agents; TSMC, ASML results; new chiplets and test facilities; Stanford AI index; photonics deals; compute architecture ha...

EDA And IP Numbers Up Again, But Numbers Are More Nuanced

Q4 numbers reflect strengths and weaknesses in different segments.

Startups

Startup Funding: Q1 2026

Massive rounds for AI, EDA, and manufacturing; 80 startups raise $8.4B.

Startup Funding: Q4 2025

More and bigger funding rounds for AI chips and AI for making chips; 75 companies raise $3 billion.

Startup Tips To Get From Seed Funding To Series A, B, C

Everyone has a bright idea about how to save power or boost performance, but how do you make sure your startup lasts the distance?

Chip Industry Startup Funding: Q3 2025

Blowout quarter for AI and quantum; 75 companies raise $6 billion.

Cognichip: Using AI To Speed Complex Chip Design

Closing the gap between increased complexity and accelerating software innovation.

Startup Funding: Q2 2025

New architectures and manufacturing methods draw investors; 75 startups raise $1.9 billion.

EDA Startups At DAC 2025

New challenges and opportunities, many involving AI, spur the launch of new EDA startups.

Baya Systems: Moving Data Faster

Taking aim at AI bottlenecks based on NoC technology developed by NetSpeed Systems.

Startup Funding: Q1 2025

AI chips and data center communications see big funding; 75 startups raise $2 billion.

Startup Funding: Q4 2024

AI chips and interconnects end year on high note; $3 billion for 75 companies.

Chip Industry Stocks*

Blog Reviews

Blog Review: Jun. 3

Verification IP; system-technology co-optimization; PCIe 7.0 ordering; design data challenges; process digital twins.

Blog Review: May 27

Precision Time Measurement; blockchain-based traceability; simulation in space; 6G PHY co-design.

Blog Review: May 20

Importing functions in PSS; rethinking server architecture; HBM challenges; heterogeneous integration roadmaps; sparse linear algebra.

Blog Review: May 13

GPU rasterizer for computational lithography; restructuring techniques; inline memory encryption; automotive electronic stability program.

Blog Review: May 6

AI data center challenges; C-PHY's 18 wire state mode; changes in CFD; ITA inspection cobot.

Blog Review: Apr. 29

Interface IP in 3D; SOCAMM in data centers; edge intelligence implementations; deposition, etch for 3D; interconnect telemetry; design–manufactur...

Blog Review: Apr. 22

Coverage closure; EM sim for AMS; CXL 4; root of trust for ATMs.

Blog Review: Apr. 15

eUSB2-V2 advances; capacitor demystification; custom AI chips; GaN chiplet; prompts and infrastructure.

Blog Review: Apr. 8

LPDDR6; multiphysics for ISO 26262 and complexity; inference stack telemetry; frame rate upscaling.

Blog Review: April 1

Complex interactions challenge verification; dynamic voltage drop analysis; chiplet framework; automotive Ethernet.