RISC-V’s Increasing Influence
Does the world need another CPU architecture when that no longer reflects the typical workload? Perhaps not, but it may need a bridge to get to where it needs to be.
Chip Industry Week in Review
IC, AI global ranking; China's fully automated IC design system; Micron goes bigger; PCIe 7.0 spec; TSMC-Tokyo joint lab; panel-level packaging win; first neuromorphic compute system; GAA forksheets; AMD's new GPUs.
Chip Industry Week in Review
Qualcomm to buy Alphawave; reworking chip grants; global semi, equipment sales up; GF's $16B expansion; Arm's AI-defined vehicles platform; Mexico's push; DRAM/DDR4; AI-powered RF design; MLPerf results; rare earths/magnets slow automakers; BEOL thermal resistance in BPD and chiplets.
Power Delivery Challenges For AI Chips
Rising power densities and new architectures are forcing a rethinking of interconnects, materials, and thermal management.
TSMC: King Of Data Center AI
Opinion: The foundry makes all of the logic chips critical for AI data centers, and might do so for years to come.