What’s Really Needed For Advanced Test?


By Greg Prewitt and Marc Jacobs Advanced test has become one of the semiconductor industry's most promising frontiers: adaptive binning, feed-forward models, and real-time analytics pulling signals from mountains of measurement data. But there is a problem hiding underneath all that ambition, and it is neither compute nor algorithm; it is data. More specifically, it is the unglamorous, found... » read more

April’19 Startup Funding: Corporate Gushers


It was another rich month for startups, large and small. In April’s top 11 funding rounds, five were investments by big corporations or corporate venture capital funds—an investor consortium led by the SoftBank Vision Fund, PayPal, Ford Motor, NTT DoCoMo, and HAPSMobile, a joint venture of SoftBank Group and AeroVironment. Those 11 investments totaled $3.74 billion. Intel Capital was als... » read more