Chip Industry Week In Review

By The SE Staff - 17 Jan, 2025 - Comments: 0

A flurry of announcements on advanced semiconductors and AI rolled out this week as U.S. President Biden wrapped up his term: The Biden-Harris Administration released an Interim Final Rule on Artificial Intelligence Diffusion to strengthen U.S. security and economic leadership in AI. The rule aims to ensure responsible global AI development by streamlining chip sales to allies, setting sec... » read more

2025: So Many Possibilities

By Brian Bailey - 16 Jan, 2025 - Comments: 0

The stage is set for a year of innovation in the chip industry, unlike anything seen for decades, but what makes this period of advancement truly unique is the need to focus on physics and real design skills. Planar scaling of SoCs enabled design and verification tools and methodologies to mature on a relatively linear path, but the last few years have created an environment for more radical... » read more

AI Won’t Replace Subject Matter Experts

By Adam Kovac - 15 Jan, 2025 - Comments: 0

Experts at The Table: The emergence of LLMs and other forms of AI has sent ripples through a number of industries, raising fears that many jobs could be on the chopping block, to be replaced by automation. Whether that’s the case in semiconductors, where machine learning has become an integral part of the design process, remains to be seen. Semiconductor Engineering sat down with a panel of e... » read more

Blog Review: Jan. 15

By Jesse Allen - 15 Jan, 2025 - Comments: 0

Siemens EDA's Stephen V. Chavez argues that the placement of decoupling capacitors on a PCB can make or break a design's power delivery system and provides some best practices and design considerations, such as ensuring even distribution on a board rather than crowding them around chips. Synopsys' Stelios Diamantidis predicts that in 2025, AI agents will begin collaborating with other AI age... » read more

Chip Industry Week In Review

By The SE Staff - 10 Jan, 2025 - Comments: 0

Global semiconductor sales hit $57.8 billion in November 2024, an increase of 20.7% compared to the same month last year, according to the Semiconductor Industry Association. In U.S. government news: The U.S. Department of Commerce finalized up to $325 million in CHIPS Act funding for Hemlock Semiconductor, which will support construction of a new semiconductor-grade polysilicon manufac... » read more

Blog Review: Jan. 8

By Jesse Allen - 08 Jan, 2025 - Comments: 0

Cadence's Igor Krause unravels the different Orthogonal Header Content (OHC) types in PCIe 6.0, which work as an extra header for the Transaction Layer Packet (TLP) that incorporates information fields that are needed depending on the TLP type. Siemens EDA's Yunhong Min considers how AI and machine learning are reshaping functional verification workflows from translating specifications to de... » read more

Chip Industry Week In Review

By The SE Staff - 20 Dec, 2024 - Comments: 0

Updated for 12/20 government fundings and 12/23 for China trade investigation announcements. President Biden announced a trade investigation into "China's unfair trade practices in the semiconductor sector." The announcement stated "PRC semiconductors often enter the U.S. market as a component of finished goods. This Section 301 investigation will examine a broad range of the PRC’s non-m... » read more

Accelerating Artificial Intelligence Innovation With Concurrent Design Engineering

By Keysight - 20 Dec, 2024 - Comments: 0

Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming every industry and creating new demands for computing performance, efficiency, and scalability. Designers are creating and deploying AI-dedicated chips to meet these challenges and enable faster and smarter applications across various domains, such as cloud, edge, mobile, automotive, and the Internet of Things (IoT). However, designing AI chips is no... » read more

Why Circuit Designers And Test Engineers Need Impedance Analyzers

By Gabrielle Duncan - 19 Dec, 2024 - Comments: 0

All engineers know resistance is usually bad news. It generates heat. It reduces efficiency. It wears out components and cuts operational lifetimes. However, resistance is not the only kind of opposition to the current. When more complex waveforms are involved (like in radio applications), the inductors and capacitors contribute a different kind of opposition that is highly dynamic and compl... » read more

SLM Evolves Into Critical Aspect Of Chip Design And Operation

By Ann Mutschler - 19 Dec, 2024 - Comments: 0

Silicon lifecycle management has evolved greatly in the past five years, moving from novel concept to a key part of design flows at industry leaders such as NVIDIA, Amazon Web Services, Ericsson, and others. Along with becoming a major focus for companies developing semiconductors, the use cases have expanded. While initially focused on post-silicon insights, SLM has expanded to cover the en... » read more

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Chip Industry Week In Review

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Chip Industry Week In Review

Accelerating Artificial Intelligence Innovation With Concurrent Design Engineering

Why Circuit Designers And Test Engineers Need Impedance Analyzers

SLM Evolves Into Critical Aspect Of Chip Design And Operation

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