Chip Industry Week In Review

By The SE Staff - 07 Feb, 2025 - Comments: 0

The chip industry is well on its way to hit $1 trillion in revenue by the end of its decade. Several analyst firms released 2024 annual results and 2025 predictions: Worldwide semiconductor revenue reached $626 billion in 2024, an 18% increase versus 2023, according to preliminary Gartner report. Memory revenue grew about 70% 2024 versus 2023. The firm forecasts that HBM will make up 19%... » read more

Secure Networking With MACsec, IPsec, And TLS

By Bart Stevens - 06 Feb, 2025 - Comments: 0

As digital networks grow in complexity, securing data in transit has become a top priority. Cyber threats, ranging from man-in-the-middle attacks to large-scale data breaches, make strong encryption and authentication mechanisms essential. But network security is not a one-size-fits-all solution. Instead, it operates at different layers of the OSI model, with each layer offering unique protecti... » read more

Automotive Outlook 2025: Ecosystem Pivots Around SDV

By Ann Mutschler - 06 Feb, 2025 - Comments: 0

The automotive industry is deep in the throes of a massive shift to software-defined vehicle architectures, a multi-year effort that will change the way automotive chips are designed, where they are used, and how they are sourced. Creating a new vehicle architecture is no small feat. OEMs need to figure out who to partner with and which aspects of their current architecture to include. This ... » read more

Automotive Security Shifts To The System Level

By Adam Kovac - 06 Feb, 2025 - Comments: 0

Cars are getting smarter, more complicated, and more vulnerable to cyberattacks. As the amount of semiconductor and software content continues to increase, so does the number of over-the-air updates and connections to edge-based servers and services, adding a variety of new vectors for attacks. Properly securing vehicles requires engineers to first identify all the possible connection points... » read more

Blog Review: Feb. 5

By Jesse Allen - 05 Feb, 2025 - Comments: 0

Cadence's Rajneesh Chauhan explores the extended metadata feature in CXL 3.1, which helps systems manage memory and devices more effectively by sending extra information along with memory transactions to provide more context about what's happening during these transactions. Siemens' Bianca Ward recommends semiconductor companies combat rising production costs by leaning into digitalization a... » read more

The Road To Super Chips

By Ed Sperling - 27 Jan, 2025 - Comments: 0

Reticle size limitations are forcing chip design teams to look beyond a single SoC or processor in order to achieve orders of magnitude improvements in processing that are required for AI. But moving data between more processing elements adds a whole new set of challenges that need to be addressed at multiple levels. Steve Woo, distinguished inventor and fellow at Rambus, examines the benefits ... » read more

Automotive OEMs Face Multiple Technology Adoption Challenges

By Ann Mutschler - 22 Jan, 2025 - Comments: 0

Experts At The Table: The automotive ecosystem is in the midst of significant change. OEMs and tiered providers are grappling with how to deal with legacy technology while incorporating ever-increasing levels of autonomy, electrification, and software-defined vehicle concepts, just to name a few. Semiconductor Engineering sat down to discuss these and other related issues with Wayne Lyons, seni... » read more

Choosing The Right Memory Solution For AI Accelerators

By Tim Messegee - 16 Jan, 2025 - Comments: 0

To meet the increasing demands of AI workloads, memory solutions must deliver ever-increasing performance in bandwidth, capacity, and efficiency. From the training of massive large language models (LLMs) to efficient inference on endpoint devices, choosing the right memory technology is critical for chip designers. This blog explores three leading memory solutions—HBM, LPDDR, and GDDR—and t... » read more

Cryptography Does Not Equal Security

By Bart Stevens - 09 Jan, 2025 - Comments: 0

At Rambus, we often receive RFIs, RFPs and RFQs for security silicon IP cores to be used in our customer’s next semiconductor product. Such requests often contain a long shopping list of required cryptographic algorithms, their modes of operation, their key lengths or strengths and performance and sizing requirements. Depending on the target segment, additional requirements such as robustness... » read more

Edge And IoT Security Turning A Corner

By Ed Sperling - 09 Jan, 2025 - Comments: 0

Security is beginning to improve for a wide range of IoT and edge devices due to better tools, the implementation of new standards and methodologies, and an increasing level of collaboration and communication across different market segments that in the past had little or no interaction. Until recently, many vendors in cost-sensitive markets offered the bare minimum of security. To make matt... » read more

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