Chip Industry Week in Review
EDA export controls; Synopsys-Ansys divest requirements; SIA Factbook; McKinsey effects of tariffs; ASE's fan-out bridge; earnings; TSMC's design center; China's legacy chips play; AMD's optical acquisition.
RISC-V’s Increasing Influence
Does the world need another CPU architecture when that no longer reflects the typical workload? Perhaps not, but it may need a bridge to get to where it needs to be.
Chip Industry Week in Review
IC, AI global ranking; China's fully automated IC design system; Micron goes bigger; PCIe 7.0 spec; TSMC-Tokyo joint lab; panel-level packaging win; first neuromorphic compute system; GAA forksheets; AMD's new GPUs.
Co-Packaged Optics Reaches Power Efficiency Tipping Point
But blazing fast data speeds come with significant manufacturing challenges.
Chip Industry Week in Review
Qualcomm to buy Alphawave; reworking chip grants; global semi, equipment sales up; GF's $16B expansion; Arm's AI-defined vehicles platform; Mexico's push; DRAM/DDR4; AI-powered RF design; MLPerf results; rare earths/magnets slow automakers; BEOL thermal resistance in BPD and chiplets.
Startup Funding: Q1 2025
AI chips and data center communications see big funding; 75 startups raise $2 billion.
Advanced Packaging Fundamentals for Semiconductor Engineers
New SE eBook examines the next phase of semiconductor design, testing, and manufacturing.
Chip Industry Week in Review
AI export rule to be scrapped; SEMI, EU request; Cadence, Nvidia supercomputer; AI co-processor; Imagination's new GPU; semi sales up; imec, TNO photonics lab; NSF key to national security; flexible packaging control system; SiConic test engineering; USB 4 support; SiC JFETS; magnetic behavior in hematite.
Chip Industry Week in Review
EDA export controls; Synopsys-Ansys divest requirements; SIA Factbook; McKinsey effects of tariffs; ASE's fan-out bridge; earnings; TSMC's design center; China's legacy chips play; AMD's optical acquisition.
What Exactly Are Chiplets And Heterogeneous Integration?
New technologies drive new terminology, but the early days for those new approaches can be very confusing.
Big Changes Ahead For Interposers And Substrates
New materials and processes will help with power distribution and thermal dissipation in advanced packages.
RISC-V’s Increasing Influence
Does the world need another CPU architecture when that no longer reflects the typical workload? Perhaps not, but it may need a bridge to get to where it needs to be.
Chip Industry Week in Review
IC, AI global ranking; China's fully automated IC design system; Micron goes bigger; PCIe 7.0 spec; TSMC-Tokyo joint lab; panel-level packaging win; first neuromorphic compute system; GAA forksheets; AMD's new GPUs.
