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The Week in Review: IoT
By Jeff Dorsch - 24 Jun, 2016 - Comments: 0

Deals Samsung said Tuesday that it will invest about $1.2 billion in Internet of Things startups in the U.S. over the next four years. Investments will be made through the Samsung Global Innovation Center in Silicon Valley and through other Samsung units. Samsung is partnering with Intel to establish the National IoT Strategy Initiative, which will take in academic and industry members and wil... » read more

The Week In Review: Manufacturing
By Mark LaPedus - 24 Jun, 2016 - Comments: 0

Manufacturing United States President Barack Obama has announced the winner of the New Smart Manufacturing Innovation Institute and manufacturing hub competition. The winner is the Smart Manufacturing Leadership Coalition (SMLC). This coalition, headquartered in Los Angeles, Calif., brings together a consortium of nearly 200 partners from across academia, industry and non-profits. The idea is... » read more

The Road To 5nm
By Ed Sperling - 23 Jun, 2016 - Comments: 1

There is strong likelihood that enough companies will move to 7nm to warrant the investment. How many will move forward to 5nm is far less certain. Part of the reason for this uncertainty is big-company consolidation. There are simply fewer customers left who can afford to build chips at the most advanced nodes. Intel bought Altera. Avago bought Broadcom. NXP bought Freescale. GlobalFoundrie... » read more

Blog Review: June 22
By Jesse Allen - 22 Jun, 2016 - Comments: 0

A Lam Research writer investigates the challenges that lie ahead for interconnects and whether current technologies will find new life or be replaced by new strategies. There's a greater force powering Moore's Law, says Cadence's Paul McLellan, who points to the vast amount of transistors being used for memory. Mentor's Robert Bates considers the challenges of securing in-hospital network... » read more

The Week In Review: IoT
By Jeff Dorsch - 17 Jun, 2016 - Comments: 0

M&A Samsung Electronics will buy Joyent, a provider of public and private cloud services. The Korean company said the purchase will give Samsung a cloud platform for the Internet of Things, mobile devices, and cloud-based software and services. “Samsung brings us the scale we need to grow our cloud and software business, an anchor tenant for our industry leading Triton container-as-a-ser... » read more

The Week In Review: Manufacturing
By Mark LaPedus - 17 Jun, 2016 - Comments: 0

Chipmakers It’s been a difficult time for Intel. The chip giant recently announced a major layoff. It also ceased development on several cell-phone chip products. Intel hasn’t given up on Moore’s Law, but the nodes appear to be extending from 18 to 24 months or perhaps longer, at least at Intel. Here’s the latest: For 10nm production, Intel received the production fab tools in Ap... » read more

Blog Review: June 15
By Jesse Allen - 15 Jun, 2016 - Comments: 0

Synopsys' Marc Greenberg shares a somber and personal story on the need to get ADAS to as many drivers as possible. From the Linley IoT conference, Cadence's Paul McLellan features a talk on protecting edge nodes and the three big steps towards IoT security. Mentor's Avidan Efody presents a lighthearted reminder on the basics of ISO 26262 terminology. Just how much security is enough? ... » read more

The Week In Review: IoT
By Jeff Dorsch - 10 Jun, 2016 - Comments: 0

Design Automation Conference ARM Holdings announced that its DesignStart initiative to enable easy creation of chip designs using ARM Cortex-M0 intellectual property now takes in electronic design automation tools and design environments offered by Cadence Design Systems and Mentor Graphics. “Simplifying access to EDA tools from Cadence and Mentor Graphics will further spur rapid innovation,... » read more

The Week In Review: Design
By Jesse Allen - 10 Jun, 2016 - Comments: 0

Mergers & Acquisitions Silvaco jumped into the IP market with its acquisition of commercialization and management company IPextreme. Founder and CEO Warren Savage will be staying on to head up the new division. Additionally, through wholly owned French subsidiary Infiniscale SA, Silvaco acquired a majority stake in edXact, which focused on parasitic reduction tools. Rambus acquired th... » read more

DAC Day Four: Excitement And Risk
By Brian Bailey - 09 Jun, 2016 - Comments: 0

One thing that was new to DAC this year, was an art exhibit. These were pieces of artwork related to our industry, such as chip plots, or more abstract ideas based on design data or analyses. They received many more entrants than their wildest dreams and had to choose a winner from over 80 pieces, but the grand prize was won by a 3D model of a finFET by David Freid of Coventor. This piece was ... » read more

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