AI-Driven Collaboration: Transforming The Semiconductor Industry’s Operating Model


The semiconductor industry stands at an inflection point. As the sector pushes into 3D architectures, advanced packaging, and heterogeneous integration, the traditional model of stage-gate, crisis-driven collaboration is reaching its limits. John Kibarian, CEO of PDF Solutions, recently outlined a vision for AI-driven collaboration at the SEMICON West CEO Summit, a fundamental reimagining of... » read more

AI In Test Analytics: Promise Vs. Reality


The semiconductor industry is increasingly turning to artificial intelligence as the solution for increasing complexity in test analytics, hoping algorithms can tame the growing flood of production data. The need to extract actionable insight from that torrent is pressing. AI/ML (AI) models promise to find correlations buried in multidimensional datasets, predict failures before they occur, and... » read more

New Rules Put The Squeeze On Semiconductor Gray Market


The shift toward chiplets and multi-die assemblies is forcing big changes in the global supply chain, including much tighter cooperation between companies and governments to ensure the authenticity and quality of semiconductor parts. The chip industry has been looking to digital certificates as the best means of reducing counterfeiting and ensuring consistent quality for some time. The probl... » read more

Chip Industry Week in Review


SK hynix is ramping HBM manufacturing capacity to meet explosive demand for AI data centers. The company will launch 16-stack HBM4 next year, and up to 12-stack HBM4E. HBM5 and HBM5E will be introduced between 2029 and 2031, reports Business Korea. China will not have access to NVIDIA’s most advanced chips, President Trump told 60 Minutes. The Dutch economy minister said Nexperia's chip... » read more

Small Vs. Large Language Models


The proliferation of edge AI will require fundamental changes in language models and chip architectures to make inferencing and learning outside of AI data centers a viable option. The initial goal for small language models (SLMs) — roughly 10 billion parameters or less, compared to more than a trillion parameters in the biggest LLMs — was to leverage them exclusively for inferencing. In... » read more

Digital Twins For Packaging: Bridging Design, Fab, Test, And Reliability


Digital twins dominated discussions at SEMICON West this year, appearing in keynote presentations, panel sessions, and workshops. The conversation reflected a noticeable shift in how the industry views the technology. What once was mainly associated with design exploration now spans the manufacturing lifecycle. In packaging and assembly, digital twins are emerging as a way to connect design ... » read more

New Standardized Semiconductor Cybersecurity Assessment (SSCA) Strengthens Security And Collaboration Across Global Supply Chain


The SEMI Semiconductor Manufacturing Cybersecurity Consortium (SMCC) Work Group 3 (Supply Chain Cybersecurity) just released a major work product that will have a significant and lasting positive impact on the industry: the “Standardized Semiconductor Cyber Assessment (SSCA)” questionnaire. Creating a common security assessment process for device makers, equipment suppliers, software s... » read more

Blog Review: Oct. 22


Cadence's Sandip Sadadiya shows what's new in the AMBA AXI Issue L protocol update, which introduces a new credit-based transport mechanism that replaces the traditional VALID/READY handshake, along with improved flow control mechanisms. Siemens' Farhad Ahmed highlights the growing need to do clock domain crossing (CDC) and reset domain crossing (RDC) analysis in a hierarchical way and intro... » read more

The Future Of Semiconductor Manufacturing: How AI And Industry Collaboration Are Reshaping The Value Chain


The semiconductor industry stands at an inflection point. As Moore's Law scaling becomes increasingly challenging and system complexity explodes through advanced packaging and chiplet-based architectures, the traditional siloed approach to manufacturing must give way to an unprecedented level of industry collaboration. This transformation, driven by the convergence of artificial intelligence, c... » read more

New Frontiers In Fault Detection And Classification


IC manufacturers are increasingly relying on intelligent data processing to prevent downtime, improve yields, and reduce scrap. They are integrating that with fault detection and classification (FDC) to trace faults to their cause. Today’s FDC systems feature better sensors, variability control, and both predictive and prescriptive modeling. In the future, FDC will enable real-time decisio... » read more

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