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Week In Review: Design, Low Power
By Jesse Allen - 10 Mar, 2023 - Comments: 0

Arm is expected to list solely on a U.S. stock exchange when it goes public again later this year, forgoing the London Stock Exchange for now, the BBC reports. Global investment banks expect the offering to value the company between $30 billion and $70 billion, according to Bloomberg. Disaggregating chips into specialized processors, memories, and architectures is becoming necessary for cont... » read more

Startup Funding: February 2023
By Jesse Allen - 08 Mar, 2023 - Comments: 0

The cost of borrowing is going up, but investors continued to pour money into the chip industry in February. Collectively, 132 companies raised more than $4.5 billion last month. One of the big beneficiaries was quantum computing, with nine companies drawing a total of more than $500 million. The bulk of that went to a quantum software and services company spun out of Alphabet, but plenty wa... » read more

Week In Review: Semiconductor Manufacturing, Test
By Gregory Haley - 03 Mar, 2023 - Comments: 0

Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) released an interim roadmap for Microelectronic and Advanced Packaging Technologies (MPAT) that targets 10- to 15-year goals for 3D integration and multi-chiplet packaging. The roadmap is open for comments. Participants in the MPAT include AMD, IBM, Intel, Texas Instruments, Purdue University, SUNY Binghamton and the Georgia Institute of Technology. It i... » read more

Week In Review: Auto, Security, Pervasive Computing
By Susan Rambo - 03 Mar, 2023 - Comments: 0

Security The Biden administration released a National Cybersecurity Strategy report this week, calling on the tech community to shoulder much more responsibility, placing "responsibility on those within our digital ecosystem that are best positioned to reduce risk and shift the consequences of poor cybersecurity away from the most vulnerable in order to make our digital ecosystem more trustwor... » read more

Week In Review: Design, Low Power
By Jesse Allen - 03 Mar, 2023 - Comments: 0

Apple plans to spend an additional €1 billion (~$1.1B) over the next six years to expand its Munich, Germany-based Silicon Design Centre, including the construction of a new research facility. "The expansion of our European Silicon Design Centre will enable an even closer collaboration between our more than 2,000 engineers in Bavaria working on breakthrough innovations, including custom sil... » read more

U.S. Opens Funding Applications Under CHIPS Act
By Linda Christensen - 28 Feb, 2023 - Comments: 0

The 2022 Chips and Science Act provided $39 billion in federal funding to revitalize the U.S. semiconductor industry. Now, the U.S. Department of Commerce, the oversight branch for the CHIPS Act, has taken the first step in opening up applications for this funding. This initial funding opportunity focuses on applications specifically for projects to “construct, expand, or modernize commerc... » read more

Week In Review: Manufacturing, Test
By Gregory Haley - 24 Feb, 2023 - Comments: 0

The U.S. is aiming for the creation of two new advanced semiconductor manufacturing facilities with “a robust supplier ecosystem” supported by the $52.7 billion CHIPS Act. Included is an $11 billion investment in semiconductor research and development, along with the creation of a new public-private partnership called the National Semiconductor Technology Center. This follows more than a do... » read more

Week In Review: Design, Low Power
By Susan Rambo - 24 Feb, 2023 - Comments: 0

Keysight Technologies acquired Cliosoft, add IP data management and design data to Keysight’s EDA portfolio. “The bigger vision is how we’re going to manage silicon lifecycle, from spec to tape-out. So you can have a data management and IP management layer and visibility into that data, and that ties into Keysight’s design and test software," said Simon Rance, vice president of marketi... » read more

Week In Review: Auto, Security, Pervasive Computing
By Marie C. Baca - 24 Feb, 2023 - Comments: 0

Automotive Ambarella will use Samsung's 5nm process technology for its new CV3-AD685 automotive AI central domain controller, bringing "new levels of AI acceleration, system integration and power efficiency to ADAS and L2+ through L4 autonomous vehicles.” Renesas introduced four technologies for automotive communication gateway SoCs: (1) an architecture that dynamically changes... » read more

Week In Review: Semiconductor Manufacturing & Test
By Gregory Haley - 17 Feb, 2023 - Comments: 0

The Biden Administration’s export bans for semiconductor manufacturing equipment are delaying expansion plans for Chinese chipmakers, Nikkei Asia reports. Yangtze Memory Technologies (YMTC) has halted work on its second memory plant near Wuhan, and ChangXin Memory Technologies (CMTX) says its second production facility, slated to open in 2023, will be delayed until 2024 or 2025. In an effo... » read more

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