Blog Review: May 28


Siemens’ Patrick Hope considers how to fully perform post-route signal integrity verification on PCB designs while maintaining the project’s timeline by implementing a progressive verification methodology that enables signal integrity experts to focus on issues that demand their expertise rather than simple errors. Cadence’s Vanessa Do checks out how CXL addresses the constant demand f... » read more

Agentic AI, Multi-Block Multi-User SoC Design Platform


The semiconductor industry is at an inflection point within its history. The latest technological advancements in AI, quantum computing, 5G, virtual and augmented reality, IoT, autonomous driving, and biotechnology have revolutionized the semiconductor industry. The growing demands of AI workloads and sophisticated model training are spurring highly specialized semiconductor chips with intricat... » read more

Chip Industry Week in Review


Podcast: imec's roadmap and a one-on-one interview with the European research house's chief strategy officer. China's Xiaomi debuted an in-house-designed 10-core mobile SoC built on a 3nm process. The company did not identify the foundry. It also announced plans to invest 50 billion yuan (~$7B) over the next decade to develop high-end smartphone chips, as part of a 200 billion yuan (~$28B) c... » read more

Future-proofing AI Models


Experts At The Table: Making sure AI accelerators can be updated for future requirements is becoming essential due to the rapid introduction of new models. Semiconductor Engineering sat down to discuss the challenges of future-proofing these designs with Marc Meunier, director of ecosystem development at Arm; Jason Lawley, director of product marketing for AI IP at Cadence; Paul Karazuba, vic... » read more

Blog Review: May 21


Synopsys’ Frank Malloy listens in on a panel discussing the engineering challenges introduced by multi-die designs, from multi-physics interactions that impact power and thermal integrity to the availability of multi-die packages and industry standards. Siemens’ Bruce Caryl shows how to determine how much a design’s power delivery network is contributing to jitter on the output drivers... » read more

More Data, More Redundant Interconnects


The proliferation of AI dramatically increases the amount of data that needs to be processed, stored, and moved, accelerating the aging of signal paths through which that data travels and forcing chipmakers to build more redundancy into the interconnects. In the past, nearly all redundant data paths were contained within a planar chip using a relatively thick silicon substrate. But as chipma... » read more

Die-to-die Interconnect Standards In Flux


UCIe, a standard for die-to-die interconnect in advanced packages, has drawn concern about being too heavyweight with its 2.0 release. But the fact that many of the new features are optional seems to have been lost in much of the public discussion. In fact, new capabilities that support a possible future chiplet marketplace are not required for designs that don’t target that marketplace. ... » read more

Development Flows For Chiplets


Chiplets offer a huge leap in semiconductor functionality and productivity, just like soft IP did 40 years ago, but a lot has to come together before that becomes reality. It takes an ecosystem, which is currently very rudimentary. Today, many companies have hit the reticle limit and are forced to move to multi-die solutions, but that does not create a plug-and-play chiplet market. These ear... » read more

UALink: Powering The Future Of AI Compute


On April 25, the UALink Consortium officially released the UALink 200G 1.0 Specification, marking an important milestone with support from key hyperscalar market players. It enables a low-latency, high-bandwidth fabric that supports hundreds of accelerators in a pod and facilitates simple load-and-store semantics. Motivation behind UALink The rapid evolution of Artificial Intelligence (AI) an... » read more

AI Accelerators Moving Out From Data Centers


Experts At The Table: The explosion in AI data is driving chipmakers to look beyond a single planar SoC. Semiconductor Engineering sat down to discuss the need for more computing and the expanding role of chiplets with Marc Meunier, director of ecosystem development at Arm; Jason Lawley, director of product marketing for AI IP at Cadence; Paul Karazuba, vice president of marketing at Expedera; ... » read more

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