Chip Industry In Rapid Transition

By Ed Sperling - 09 Jan, 2019 - Comments: 0

Wally Rhines, CEO Emeritus at Mentor, a Siemens Business, sat down with Semiconductor Engineering to talk about global economics, AI, the growing emphasis on customization, and the impact of security and higher abstraction levels. What follows are excerpts of that conversation. SE: Where do you see the biggest changes happening across the chip industry? Rhines: 2018 was a hot year for fab... » read more

Week in Review: IoT, Security, Auto

By Jeff Dorsch - 21 Dec, 2018 - Comments: 0

Internet of Things Unmanned aerial vehicles are delivering vaccines to the very remote village of Cook’s Bay, on the island of Erromango, one of 83 volcanic islands in the South Pacific nation of Vanuatu. The drones can go from island to island faster than boats, which often are not a travel option during rough weather. Vanuatu this week began its vaccine deliveries by drones with support fr... » read more

AI Market Ramps Everywhere

By Brian Bailey - 20 Dec, 2018 - Comments: 0

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has inspired the general populace, but its rapid rise over the past few years has given many people pause. From realistic concerns about robots taking over jobs to sci-fi scares about robots more intelligent than humans building ever smarter robots themselves, AI inspires plenty of angst. Within the technology industry, we have a better understanding about the pote... » read more

Dawn Of The Data-Driven Age

By Ed Sperling - 06 Dec, 2018 - Comments: 0

Autonomous vehicles, 5G, a security breach at Marriott hotels, and AI. These may seem unrelated, but they're all linked by one common thread—data. Data creation, management and processing always have been a winning business formula. In 2004, IBM sold off its PC business on the assumption that it could still achieve significant growth by managing its customers' data. The rapid buildup by co... » read more

Week in Review: IoT, Security, Auto

By Jeff Dorsch - 16 Nov, 2018 - Comments: 0

Internet of Things Gartner identified what it says are the top 10 strategic Internet of Things technologies and trends. Number one, no surprise, is artificial intelligence. Nick Jones, research vice president at Gartner, said in a statement, “AI will be applied to a wide range of IoT information, including video, still images, speech, network traffic activity, and sensor data.” Other top t... » read more

Machine Learning Moves Into Fab And Mask Shop

By Mark LaPedus - 14 Nov, 2018 - Comments: 0

Semiconductor Engineering sat down to discuss artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, and chip and photomask manufacturing technologies with Aki Fujimura, chief executive of D2S; Jerry Chen, business and ecosystem development manager at Nvidia; Noriaki Nakayamada, senior technologist at NuFlare; and Mikael Wahlsten, director and product area manager at Mycronic. What follows are excerpt... » read more

Week in Review: IoT, Security, Auto

By Jeff Dorsch - 09 Nov, 2018 - Comments: 0

Internet of Things What’s better than a 5G network? How about a local, private 5G network? The Industrial Internet of Things may drive the development of such networks. Of course, 5G cellular communications technology is still being worked out worldwide. BMW, Daimler, and Volkswagen are looking ahead to the future; those automotive manufacturers notified Germany’s Federal Network Agency th... » read more

The Multiple Faces And Phases Of AI

By Ed Sperling - 01 Nov, 2018 - Comments: 0

AI is being used in more ways and more devices—and in more ways in those same devices—raising the level of confusion about exactly what people are talking about when they refer to AI and AI-enabled systems. AI is both a tool and a process. It also is a thing, although not even remotely close to the singularity portrayed by Arthur C. Clarke in 2001. And as it proliferates, it's becoming h... » read more

Week in Review: IoT, Security, Auto

By Jeff Dorsch - 26 Oct, 2018 - Comments: 0

Internet of Things Arm aims to accelerate Linux-based embedded design through providing quick access to the Cortex-A5 CPU under the Arm DesignStart program. Developers can work on embedded and Internet of Things system-on-a-chip devices for gateways, medical systems, smart homes, and wearable electronics. IP access to the Cortex-A5 is now $75,000, with one-year of design support from Arm exper... » read more

Cloud Drives Changes In Network Chip Architectures

By Ann Mutschler - 03 Oct, 2018 - Comments: 0

Cloud data centers have changed the networking topology and how data moves throughout a large data center, prompting significant changes in the architecture of the chips used to route that data and raising a whole new set of design challenges. Cloud computing has emerged as the fast growing segment of the data center market. In fact, it is expected to grow three-fold in the next few years, a... » read more

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Chip Industry In Rapid Transition

Week in Review: IoT, Security, Auto

AI Market Ramps Everywhere

Dawn Of The Data-Driven Age

Week in Review: IoT, Security, Auto

Machine Learning Moves Into Fab And Mask Shop

Week in Review: IoT, Security, Auto

The Multiple Faces And Phases Of AI

Week in Review: IoT, Security, Auto

Cloud Drives Changes In Network Chip Architectures