Chip Industry Week In Review


U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer warned Southeast Asian semiconductor manufacturers that they must shift production to the U.S. or face new punitive tariffs, reports the South China Morning Post. President Trump previously floated a 100% tariff on imported chips. Malaysia and other regional economies are offering large concessions and promises of U.S. goods purchases in hopes of securin... » read more

Navigating The Challenges Of Group Design Projects


All over the world, governments and industry have come together to solve large-scale chip design challenges. Groups such as the U.S. Department of Defense’s Microelectronics Hubs (ME Commons), the EU Chips Act pilot lines, and Japan’s government-backed Rapidus consortium often consist of established companies, research institutes, academia, and startups – each of which brings different sk... » read more

Speeding Time To Market With A Future-Proof Fabric


This whitepaper covers how Tenstorrent is elevating their AI fabric to new heights of performance, efficiency, and productivity through a collaboration with Baya Systems. Tenstorrent’s in-house fabric has set a new standard for efficiency and performance in AI compute in their current generation products and is proactively addressing the needs of the next generation. By combining Tenstorrent�... » read more

Chip Industry Week in Review


The U.S. is considering annual approvals for Samsung and SK hynix to export chipmaking tools and materials to their factories in China, replacing perpetual waivers granted under the validated end user system, reports Bloomberg. The proposal, presented by the U.S. Commerce Department to South Korean officials, would require the companies to reapply each year for specific quantities of restricted... » read more

Security Requirements And Penalties Grow For Chipmakers


Governments and systems companies are fundamentally changing the rules around semiconductor security, forcing chipmakers and their suppliers to comply with tough new regulations that require resiliency in hardware. Unlike in the past, chips and systems deployed in these markets must be able to respond to threats rather than waiting for the next version of a chip or IP to address vulnerabilities... » read more

AI’s Value In Chip Design Depends On Data Availability


Experts at the Table: Semiconductor Engineering sat down to discuss the advantages and challenges in using AI in designing chips, with Chuck Alpert, Cadence Fellow; Sathish Balasubramanian, head of product marketing and senior director for custom IC at Siemens EDA; Anand Thiruvengadam, senior director and head of AI product management at Synopsys; Sailesh Kumar, CEO of Baya Systems; Mehir ... » read more

Unleashing Heterogeneous Compute: Lessons From Real-World System Design


At the Andes RISC-V CON Silicon Valley held in San Jose, California, in April 2025, Imagination Technologies and Baya Systems delivered a compelling presentation titled “Unleashing Heterogeneous Compute: Lessons from Real-World System Design.” This session, part of the developer track, showcased a joint demonstration leveraging Baya Systems’ WeaverPro CacheStudio software to model a... » read more

Government Funding For Chip Design Tools Spreads


Governments around the globe are starting to invest more heavily in chip design tools and related research as part of an effort to boost on-shore chip production, opening new opportunities for startups and established EDA companies. Those cash infusions, which are being doled out in the U.S., Europe, and Asia, are part of a growing recognition of the importance of design automation tools wit... » read more

Silicon Lifecycle Management Gains Traction, But It’s Complicated


Silicon lifecycle management (SLM) is gaining ground in semiconductor design and test by leveraging specialized on-die sensors and analytics engines to improve power, performance, yield, and reliability. Most modern SoCs mitigate the guesswork by leveraging DFT, which includes adding memory built-in self-test (BiST) or improving functional coverage, but these tests were meant for verifying c... » read more

A Quantum Leap in Architecture Design of Chiplet Cache Systems


CacheStudio is a rapid architecture and design platform for chiplet based cache coherent systems. Cache hierarchies and parameters are specified in minutes with an abstract Python front end, and accurate workload driven simulations are performed at millions of instructions per second to uncover stateful performance indicators that require long runtimes. The results are presented interacti... » read more

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