Week In Review: Design, Low Power

By Jesse Allen - 09 Jun, 2023 - Comments: 0

Renesas Electronics completed its acquisition of Panthronics, a fabless company specializing in near-field communication (NFC) wireless products. Renesas has already incorporated Panthronics NFC technology into several solution reference designs for applications such as payment, IoT, asset tracking, and smart meters. The European Commission announced new funding for the semiconductor and mic... » read more

Week In Review: Semiconductor Manufacturing, Test

By Gregory Haley - 26 May, 2023 - Comments: 1

The Cyberspace Administration of China recommended a ban of Micron chips for critical information infrastructure (CII), alleging serious network security risks. According to a statement from China's Network Security Review Office, "Micron's products have relatively serious potential network security issues, which pose a major security risk to [China's] critical information infrastructure supply... » read more

Week In Review: Design, Low Power

By Karen Heyman - 26 May, 2023 - Comments: 0

Cadence bought Pulsic, a U.K.-based developer of place-and-route tools for custom digital and analog. The acquisition follows a previous acquisition attempt by a Chinese firm in August 2022, which was blocked by the U.K. government. At the G7 Summit in Japan, IBM announced a 10-year, $100 million initiative with the University of Tokyo and the University of Chicago to develop a quantum-centr... » read more

Blog Review: May 24

By Jesse Allen - 24 May, 2023 - Comments: 0

Siemens' Patrick McGoff finds that designers have not had easy tools to address solderability, leaving a critical part of the manufacturing success of a PCB to the component engineer or the contract manufacturer, and points to manufacturing-driven design as a way to avoid quality issues later. Cadence's Rich Chang finds that effective UPF low-power verification and debug involves more than o... » read more

Week In Review: Design, Low Power

By Susan Rambo - 19 May, 2023 - Comments: 0

Design Ansys has signed a definitive agreement to acquire EDA tool company Diakopto. Diakopto specializes in software tools that find the cause of layout parasitics. Its products are ParagonX, for analyzing and debugging IC designs and layout parasitics, and EM/IR analysis/verification tool PrimeX. The deal is expected to close in the second quarter of 2023. SEMI’s FlexTech community issu... » read more

Machine Vision Plus AI/ML Adds Vast New Opportunities

By John Koon - 17 May, 2023 - Comments: 0

Traditional technology companies and startups are racing to combine machine vision with AI/ML, enabling it to "see" far more than just pixel data from sensors, and opening up new opportunities across a wide swath of applications. In recent years, startups have been able to raise billions of dollars as new MV ideas come to light in markets ranging from transportation and manufacturing to heal... » read more

Week In Review: Design, Low Power

By Jesse Allen - 12 May, 2023 - Comments: 1

Synopsys acquired Silicon Frontline Technology, a provider of an electrical layout verification solution for mixed-signal and analog designs, large-scale power semiconductor devices, and electrostatic discharge protection networks. "This acquisition enables Synopsys to extend the capabilities of our design analysis portfolio and help build out a system-level electrical analysis platform. We als... » read more

Week In Review: Auto, Security, Pervasive Computing

By Susan Rambo - 12 May, 2023 - Comments: 0

Automotive, mobility Qualcomm signed a definitive agreement to acquire fabless semiconductor company Autotalks, maker of automotive-qualified vehicle-to-everything (V2X) SoCs, processors, sensors, V2X RF transceivers, and other products for use in automatic braking and cooperative perception systems (where a vehicle can see what another vehicle is seeing). Autotalks’ V2X products are dual-m... » read more

Week In Review: Design, Low Power

By Jesse Allen - 05 May, 2023 - Comments: 0

Arm advanced its progress toward an initial public offering, confidentially submitting a draft registration statement on Form F-1 to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The size and price range for the proposed offering have yet to be determined. Graphene IDM Paragraf acquired Cardea Bio, a maker of graphene-based biocompatible chips. Cardea has developed a biosignal processing unit... » read more

New Standards Push Co-Packaged Optics

By Karen Heyman - 26 Apr, 2023 - Comments: 0

Co-packaged optics (CPOs) promise five times the bandwidth of pluggable connections, but the new architecture requires multiple changes to accommodate different applications. The Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF) recently published standards for co-packaged optics, which are the photonic industry’s hope for handling today’s faster Ethernet interfaces, as well as increasing speeds and p... » read more

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