Chip Industry Week in Review


Geopolitics Taiwan and the U.S. signed a trade agreement this week, with TSMC and other Taiwanese companies collectively pledging to directly invest at least $250B in investments in advanced semiconductor, energy and AI production and capacity in the U.S.  The agreement also included Taiwan providing another $250B in credit guarantees for additional IC supply chain expansions in the U.S., cap... » read more

Smarter Write Barriers For Arm64 In .NET CoreCLR


Last year, I explored how you can use the Arm Scalable Vector Extension (SVE) in .NET to unlock SIMD performance at scale. This year, my focus has shifted to something less visible but just as fundamental to runtime performance. Write barriers in the CoreCLR garbage collector (GC). Write barriers are not a feature most .NET developers ever think about. They do not change how you write C# cod... » read more

Blog Review: Jan. 14


Arm's Paul Black demonstrates how lightweight LLVM sanitizers help detect undefined behavior, improve code quality, and expose hidden bugs in embedded C and C++ projects, with a focus on two sanitizers that can catch issues such as unsigned signed shift overflows, array overflows, and stack corruption. Imagination's Alex Pim provides an overview of LLM inference acceleration for mobile and e... » read more

Chip Industry Week in Review


SIA's latest monthly global semiconductor sales report reflects a ~30% YOY increase, hitting a record $75.3B in November 2025. Asia Pacific had a notable 66% increase. Cadence launched its Chiplet Spec-to-Packaged Parts ecosystem to accelerate time to market for chiplet development for physical AI, data centers, and HPC applications. Initial IP partners joining Cadence include Arm, Arteris, ... » read more

Is End-To-End Security Possible?


Looming financial penalties for data breaches are forcing chipmakers to confront end-to-end security, an increasingly complex and daunting problem because no single company controls all the pieces anymore. This is especially apparent in multi-die assemblies, in use today in data centers, and under consideration in automotive and other applications. Multiple chiplets can push performance well... » read more

Blog Review: Jan. 7


Cadence's Reela Samuel presents an overview of through-silicon vias, including structure, pitch, and electrical behavior, key layout rules such as keep-out zones and stress constraints, and how TSV parasitics influence bandwidth, latency, and system-level performance. Siemens' Andras Vass-Varnai identifies five thermal trends to watch and how they’ll reshape design and packaging workflows ... » read more

Chip Industry Week In Review


Deals: NVIDIA inked a $20B non-exclusive licensing deal with Groq for its inference technology. The startup's founder, Jonathan Ross, and some other employees will join NVIDIA to assist in scaling and advancing the technology. The non-exclusive licensing deal, versus an outright purchase, is a tool other companies have used to avoid antitrust regulation. Samsung Ventures made a strategic inv... » read more

Blog Review: Dec. 24


Cadence's Jakob Engblom shares highlights from the recent SDV Europe conference, including why software-defined vehicles will require much closer, faster collaboration between suppliers and customers, with virtualization for software development and testing taking on a key role, as well as API questions and tire sensors. Synopsys' Tom De Schutter and Marc Serughetti predict that new cars wil... » read more

Blog Review: Dec. 17


Cadence's Shyam Sharma checks out what's new in the latest Open NAND Flash Interface 5.2 standard, including a Separate Command Address protocol that allows Hosts to optimize the command and data scheduling to increase overall available bandwidth. Siemens' Kyle Fraunfelter and Melville Bryant contend that improving semiconductor manufacturing and fab sustainability starts with a digital twin... » read more

Chip Industry Week in Review


Deals of the week: Arteris announced plans to acquire cybersecurity provider Cycuity. “Expanding our technology portfolio to include Cycuity’s hardware security assurance products will enable our customers to achieve secure on-chip data movement,” said Charlie Janac, chairman and CEO of Arteris. Qualcomm acquired Ventana Micro Systems, a maker of RISC-V data center-class CPU IP. ... » read more

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