Chip Industry Week In Review


Chinese firms imported almost $26 billion worth of chipmaking machinery, according to fresh trade data released by China’s General Administration of Customs this week, Bloomberg reports. Meanwhile, the global semiconductor manufacturing industry continued to show signs of improvement in Q2 2024 with significant growth of IC sales, stabilizing capital expenditure, and an increase in install... » read more

The Week In Review: Design


IP Avery Design Systems released NVM Express over Fabrics 1.0 and NVM Express 1.2.1 extensions to its NVM-Xactor verification IP, enabling verification of both NVMe over PCIe and NVMe over Fabrics designs. Arastu Systems uncorked an optimized DDR3/4 DRAM Controller Core, which works with DFI 3.1 compatible PHY. The core supports all key DDR3/DDR4 features and additional features like Erro... » read more