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Chip Industry Week In Review

By The SE Staff - 19 Jan, 2024 - Comments: 0

By Jesse Allen, Gregory Haley, and Liz Allan Synopsys will acquire Ansys for about $35 billion in cash and stock. The deal will boost Synopsys' multi-physics simulation capabilities, which are essential for complex 3D-IC designs, where thermal density can have significant repercussions. The acquisition is expected to be finalized in the first half of 2025. Worldwide semiconductor revenue ... » read more

The Week In Review: System-Level Design

By Ed Sperling - 14 Feb, 2014 - Comments: 0

Cadence bought TranSwitch’s high-speed interface IP assets. TranSwitch, which made chips for communications equipment, filed for bankruptcy in November. (The company’s Web site is no longer active.) Cadence also won a deal with Microsoft, which will use Tensilica processors in the new Xbox One audio subsystem. And Cadence rolled out HiFi Audio Tunneling for Android, which takes advantage of... » read more

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Chip Industry Week In Review

Applied Materials' $4B facility at risk; AI chip bonanza; Japan, U.S. alliance; Rapidus' U.S. subsidiary; EDA revenue up; TSMC $6.6B funding; Infineon, Amkor team up; S. Korea's big bet; Apple's processor overhaul; high-NA EUVL defect system; chiplet HW security module; new Spectre attack.

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Chip Industry Week In Review

China restricts U.S. processors; Samsung's CXL, DRAM module and roadmap; ASML's $2.7B retention bonus; U.S., Mexico partner up; Keysight's $1.5B offer to Spirent; Lam's new pulsed laser deposition; new OSAT center.

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Early STEM Education Key To Growing Future Chip Workforce

Community outreach and partnerships can drive interest in STEM subjects and chip jobs among children, parents, and teachers.

Architecting Chips For High-Performance Computing

Data center IC designs are evolving, based on workloads, but making the tradeoffs for those workloads is not always straightforward.

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Chip Industry Week In Review

IC sales up; Taiwan's quake; Japan's big bets; Intel Foundry loss; edgeAI startup funding; smartphone market's recovery; robots; data center security; NoCs in 3D.

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