Chip Industry Week in Review


Intel reported flat year-over year revenue for Q2, exceeding Wall Street's pessimistic expectations. In a message to employees, CEO Lip-Bu Tan said the company will: Cut about 15% of its staff, ending the year with about 75,000 employees, down from a high of nearly 132,000 in 2022; Scrap projects in Poland and Germany, consolidate other sites in central America and Southeast Asia, and s... » read more

Blog Review: July 23


Synopsys' Vincent van der Leest and Mike Borza argue that hardware security is critical for providing the foundational trust, physical protection, and performance enhancements necessary to support software security and prevent leaks of sensitive data and cryptographic keys. Siemens' Shetha Nolke explains why stress matters so much in 3D-ICs and why evaluating it isn't as straightforward as i... » read more

Chip Industry Week in Review


The U.S. government will grant licenses to NVIDIA and AMD to again sell some AI chips — NVIDIA's H20 GPU and AMD's MI308 — to Chinese companies. TrendForce projects that the availability of NVIDIA chips, in particular, will create a surge in demand from Chinese AI firms and cloud service providers, and boost high-bandwidth memory (HBM) consumption. The move could raise China’s share of... » read more

Blog Review: July 16


Synopsys' Bradley Geden and Manoz Palaparthi explain the difference between functional signoff and RTL signoff and why increased SoC complexity means that verification flows must now capture both the intent and the integrity of a design before it can move forward. Cadence's Frank Ferro finds that LPDDR isn't just for mobile devices anymore, with the new LPDDR6 standard bringing increased ban... » read more

Silicon IP Revenue Spikes


EDA and silicon IP revenue grew 12.8% in Q1 2025, totaling $5.098 billion compared to $4.522 billion in the same period last year, but the real story was on the IP side, surging 29.6% year-over-year to $1.577 billion. Drilling deeper into those numbers, revenue for non-reporting IP companies — predominantly Arm — jumped 34.1% YoY to $1.031 billion. That was positive news for the IP marke... » read more

Chip Industry Week In Review


GlobalFoundries plans to acquire MIPS, adding RISC-V processor IP and PPA optimization software capabilities to its foundry offerings. MIPS will continue to operate as a standalone business within GF. The deal is expected to close in the second half of 2025. The EU rolled out new general-purpose AI rules this week to limit copyright infringement, protect public safety, and require transparency... » read more

Chip Industry Week in Review


[Editor's Note: Early edition due to the U.S. July 4th holiday.] The U.S. government lifted export restrictions that barred Synopsys, Siemens EDA, and Cadence from selling EDA tools to China. In a statement, Synopsys said it received a letter from the U.S. Commerce Department immediately rescinding those restrictions. Siemens issued a similar statement. Which tools or hardware accelerated t... » read more

Blog Review: July 2


Synopsys’ Shankar Krishnamoorthy chats with industry experts about how the combination of AI and software-defined systems is driving a re-evaluation of engineering workflows and why chip, software, and system development must evolve in unison. Siemens’ Jake Wiltgen considers the rapidly evolving and growing challenge of performing DFT verification as designs scale, with complex hierarchi... » read more

Chip Industry Week in Review


AI featured big at this week's Design Automation Conference (DAC) in San Francisco. Dozens of companies featured AI-related tools (see product section below), as well as significant improvements to existing tools and some entirely new approaches for designing chips. Among the highlights: Siemens unveiled an AI-enhanced toolset for the EDA design flow that enables customers to integrate the... » read more

Blog Review: June 25


Siemens’ John McMillan provides a detailed overview of 3D-IC technology and heterogeneous integration, from the market trends driving its adoption to the design, verification, and manufacturing challenges involved. Synopsys’ Gunnar Braun and Stewart Williams check out how cloud-based development practices and virtual prototypes can enable earlier and more efficient testing and validation... » read more

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