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Apache Update: Five Important Questions
By Ed Sperling - 11 Aug, 2011 - Comments: 0

By Ed Sperling It was supposed to be the first IPO since Magma went public in 2001. Instead, Apache was bought by Ansys in a deal that closed earlier this month—at a record pace for the EDA industry of less than two months since it was announced. So what exactly was behind the acquisition and why did Apache agree to sell? And what will become of Apache within the much larger Ansys? Low... » read more

State Of The Semiconductor industry
By Ed Sperling - 06 Jul, 2011 - Comments: 0

Jonathan Davis, executive vice president of SEMI, drills down into the state of the chip industry, what's driving the changes and what the big issues are for manufacturing and design in the future. [youtube vid=pjp5i3N1Cw4] » read more

Wafer Demand Outpaces Semiconductor Unit Growth in 2011
By Joanne Itow - 28 Jun, 2011 - Comments: 0

By Joanne Itow Semiconductor unit sales remain strong and are expected to reach 718 billion in 2011, an 8.6% growth over 2010. Unit sales are driving wafer demand at both advanced and mature fabs. Total silicon demand is expected to grow by 10% in 2011. In the first quarter of 2011, semiconductor unit sales increased 1.3% over Q4 2010, reflecting an unusually healthy growth compared to the ... » read more

Executive Briefing: Naveed Sherwani
By Ed Sperling - 06 Jun, 2011 - Comments: 0

Open-Silicon's CEO talks with System-Level Design about getting the business priorities of designing a complex SoC in line with the technology; why getting chips out the door on time is critical and why it's not happening. [youtube vid=OAQ9JxJKYHU] » read more

Redefining ‘Good Enough’
By Ed Sperling - 31 May, 2011 - Comments: 0

The old definition of a good chip was that it could be manufactured with reasonable yield, it was functionally solid, and it performed at least as well as the market demanded. That definition is changing, however. There will always be a difference between ‘good’ and ‘good enough.’ We all want to own the ‘good’ chips in our electronic devices. But what’s noteworthy are the chang... » read more

Understanding Frog Behavior
By Ed Sperling - 20 May, 2011 - Comments: 0

Change is rarely something people can grasp, particularly in technology. Unless it involves a completely new way of doing things—witness the PC, the cell phone and the Internet, for example—most change involves evolutionary improvements. This is the proverbial frog in a pot of boiling water. Heat the frog up slowly and it will cook. Throw the frog into boiling water and it will leap to s... » read more

Forecasting Wafer Demand: Technology Migration, Bottlenecks and Confetti
By Joanne Itow - 09 Apr, 2011 - Comments: 0

By Joanne Itow If you cover a long enough time period, the small ups and downs of a graphed line can look very smooth. Semico’s semiconductor wafer demand data goes back to 1991. When wafer demand is graphed from 1991 to 2016, wafer growth appears to have a very steady upward trend with only a few minor interruptions. Wafer demand grows at a compound annual growth rate of about 8-9%. When ... » read more

Pricey Processes For Low Power
By Ed Sperling - 08 Apr, 2010 - Comments: 0

By Pallab Chatterjee Recently Samsung gave an update on the status and availability of its advanced 32/28nm process technology for use in foundry. The process is targeted for shipping designs to customers at the end of this year, with a road map that continues through the 22/20nm nodes and down to 15nm. What was particularly interesting were several key innovations that have made this all p... » read more

Value Shift
By Ed Sperling - 27 Jan, 2010 - Comments: 0

System Level Design talks with Tom Quan of TSMC, John Koeter of Synopsys, Kalar Rajendiran of eSilicon and Phil Yastrow of Avago about where the value has shifted in the semiconductor design chain and why. [youtube vid=MvSaHSYDqVQ] » read more

Services To Render
By Ed Sperling - 17 Nov, 2009 - Comments: 0

Tools companies, value-chain producers and IP providers have fared pretty badly in the past when it comes to services. They’ve been paid for their products, but even software was considered a giveaway. And services were an extra that no one even considered charging or paying for, except in body-shop types of arrangements for hitting tapeout deadlines and last-minute debugging. That’s cha... » read more

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