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Blog Review: Apr. 2
By Jesse Allen - 02 Apr, 2025 - Comments: 0

Synopsys’ Meenakshy Ramachandran explores how DisplayPort Automotive Extensions help meet functional safety and security standards for the increasingly higher-resolution and more immersive in-vehicle displays in connected, autonomous, shared, and electric vehicles. Siemens’ Gabriella Leone and Michael Munsey discuss the need for a collaborative semiconductor business platform and how to ... » read more

Chip Industry Week In Review
By The SE Staff - 28 Mar, 2025 - Comments: 0

McKinsey issued a new report on the state of the chemical supply chain for semiconductors in the U.S., citing potential shortages of high-purity materials such as tungsten, aluminum and copper, lack of access to CMP slurries and photoresists for EUV, and rising competition for high-k precursors that can fetch higher prices outside of the U.S. CSIS weighed in on the U.S. goverment's recent ... » read more

Blog Review: Mar. 26
By Jesse Allen - 26 Mar, 2025 - Comments: 0

Siemens' Bianca Ward argues that sustainability must be considered starting from the design phase to reduce the energy consumption of ICs as well as the production processes used to manufacture them. Synopsys' Adrien Tozzoli looks at how physical optics simulation can be improved by using beam synthesis propagation, a method that decomposes the optical field into a collection of beamlets to ... » read more

Chip Industry Week In Review
By The SE Staff - 21 Mar, 2025 - Comments: 0

Semiconductor industry energy consumption grew 125% between 2015 and 2023, while direct greenhouse gas emissions rose 23% in the same period, according to the Europe think tank Interface, which analyzed corporate social responsibility reports from 28 global chip manufacturers. CSIS' new report "Understanding U.S. Allies’ Current Legal Authority to Implement AI and Semiconductor Export Cont... » read more

Blog Review: Mar. 19
By Jesse Allen - 19 Mar, 2025 - Comments: 0

Cadence's Neelabh Singh explains the defined port operations of USB4 that are used to bring transmitters burst and receivers of a design under test into compliance mode and to execute tests like bit error tests, error rate tests, clock switch tests, TxFFE equalization tests, and electrical idle tests. Siemens EDA's Stephen V. Chavez examines the use of blind and buried vias in high-density i... » read more

Chip Industry Week In Review
By The SE Staff - 14 Mar, 2025 - Comments: 0

ASML and imec signed a five-year strategic partnership to advance semiconductor innovation and sustainable technology. The collaboration will leverage ASML’s full product portfolio, including high-NA EUV, DUV immersion, and advanced metrology tools, within imec’s pilot line for sub-2nm R&D. Supported by EU and national funding, it will also drive research in silicon photonics, memory, a... » read more

Blog Review: Mar. 12
By Jesse Allen - 12 Mar, 2025 - Comments: 0

Cadence's P. Saisrinivas explains the relationship between drive strength and cell delay and why it is key to choose the appropriate drive strength to meet timing constraints while minimizing power and area. Siemens' Daniel Berger and Dirk Hartmann tackle the readout problem of accurately measuring the state of a quantum system after it has undergone a quantum computation, which becomes incr... » read more

Chip Industry Week In Review
By The SE Staff - 07 Mar, 2025 - Comments: 0

The Malaysian government signed a deal with Arm to kickstart a chip design ecosystem. Until now, Malaysia has focused on packaging and test. Adding chip design represents a major change in focus. The country will pay SoftBank $250 million over 10 years for Arm’s chip design IP and train 10,000 engineers. Global chip sales reached $56 billion in January, up nearly 18% from the same period i... » read more

Chip Industry Week In Review
By The SE Staff - 28 Feb, 2025 - Comments: 0

Intel said its new fab in Licking County, Ohio will be delayed due to financial struggles and a need to align chip production with market demand, reported the Columbus Dispatch. Construction is now estimated to be completed in 2030, with operations to start in 2030 or 2031. The company said it already has invested $3.7 billion locally. Apple plans to invest more than $500 billion in the U.S... » read more

Chip Industry Week In Review
By The SE Staff - 21 Feb, 2025 - Comments: 0

The EU Commission approved €920 million in German State aid to support Infineon in setting up its Smart Power Fab in Dresden. Total funding for the Dresden site amounts to about €1 billion. PDF Solutions will acquire secureWISE for $130 million to expand the reach of its semiconductor manufacturing data platform, providing secure, remote access monitoring and control. Tariffs, trade, and ... » read more

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