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The Uncertain Future Of Fabless Semis
By Ann Mutschler - 30 Jan, 2014 - Comments: 1

As with most things, perspective is everything, this is especially true when it comes to changes in the semiconductor ecosystem. Some industry watchers say indicators clearly point to a shift happening where system OEMs again make the decisions about what is in a chip, both software and hardware, pointing to Apple, Samsung, Microsoft and Intel as prime examples. As a result, the fabless semicon... » read more

Patents Under Scrutiny
By Brian Bailey - 30 Jan, 2014 - Comments: 2

After years of complaints by high-tech companies that the U.S. patent system is misused, too slow or completely outdated, patent attorneys are about to get their day in court. The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to review an appeal between Alice Corp., an electronic marketplace for trading IP, and CLS Bank International, involving what kinds of inventions can be patented, according to the Supr... » read more

Internet Of Things Hype: The Sound And The Fury
By Kurt Shuler - 30 Jan, 2014 - Comments: 2

“It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.” —William Shakespeare, Macbeth Bill was referring to life in the above quote, but he may as well have been referring to the hype surrounding the Internet of Things (IoT) and how it is going to create a new era of innovation in the semiconductor industry. I’m skeptical, and I will tell you why. We’ve bee... » read more

Week In Review: System-Level Design
By Ed Sperling - 17 Jan, 2014 - Comments: 0

Cadence rolled out a new version of its functional verification platform, greatly improving performance and updating it to deal with the big increases in third-party and re-used IP in designs. For IP and block verification, the company said it increased formal analysis performance by up to 20% and simulation by up to 10 times. The debugger also reduces the database size by 10 times and the time... » read more

Performance Still Trumps Power
By Brian Bailey - 16 Jan, 2014 - Comments: 2

When it comes to technology, the past was always simpler than the present and the future looks daunting. In part, this is because finding a solution to a problem allows us to discover the next problem. Over time, the previous problem becomes more understood and solutions improve to the point where it is no longer considered a problem. It was a fairly easy choice about how to implement functiona... » read more

Where Is 2.5D?
By Ed Sperling - 19 Dec, 2013 - Comments: 3

After nearly five years of concentrated research, development, test chips and characterization, 2.5D remains a possibility for many companies but a reality for very few. So what’s taking so long and why hasn’t all of this hype turned into production runs instead of test chips? Semiconductor Engineering spent the past two months interviewing dozens of people on this subject, from chipmakers ... » read more

Industry Restructures Around Cost
By Ed Sperling - 19 Dec, 2013 - Comments: 1

Talk to any semiconductor executive these days about what’s next for their company and you’ll probably encounter the same perspective—cost will drive future design decisions. Dig a little further, however, and you’ll find no consistent strategy for reducing that cost. While the industry has three very viable solutions for improving the power and performance characteristics of SoCs—... » read more

Industry-Shaking Changes Ahead
By Kurt Shuler - 19 Dec, 2013 - Comments: 1

I’ve been closely following the increasing power of system OEMs (such as Apple, Google, Facebook and Microsoft) over players in the semiconductor industry with an eye toward understanding how this will affect others in the semi value chain. However, I haven’t paid as much attention to the root causes of why these changes are occurring. McKinsey & Company has provided our industry food f... » read more

The Week In Review: System-Level Design
By Ed Sperling - 13 Dec, 2013 - Comments: 0

A widely quoted report by Bloomberg said ARM might benefit from a major deal with Google, which is considering using ARM cores in its own processor designs. It's impossible to tell at this point whether Google actually will go through with developing its own chips, a move that would have monumental ramifications in multiple areas. For one thing it would give ARM a major entry into the data cent... » read more

What Just Happened?
By Brian Fuller - 12 Dec, 2013 - Comments: 0

Boy that went by fast. One minute, I’m waking up a little groggy on New Year’s Day, wondering whether the silicon industry is ever going to rebound. The next minute, it’s today and the industry had a good year, and is, in many ways, a completely different animal than it was 12 months ago. Innovation is evolutionary, sure. But if you really think about 2013, you can make an argument tha... » read more

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