Huge Performance Gains Ahead


Rambus Chief Scientist Craig Hampel talks about what will drive the next big performance gains after Moore’s Law, from the data center to the edge. https://youtu.be/ItHCsei7YTc » read more

Blog Review: Aug. 29


Mentor's Joe Hupcey III addresses inconclusive results in formal verification with tips on how to reduce the complexity of “assumption” properties to make them easier for the formal engines to digest and reach a solution. Cadence's Meera Collier looks beyond the immediate appeal of autonomous cars to the broader social implications of urban sprawl, public transit funding, and gentrificat... » read more

Big Changes For Mainstream Chip Architectures


Chipmakers are working on new architectures that significantly increase the amount of data that can be processed per watt and per clock cycle, setting the stage for one of the biggest shifts in chip architectures in decades. All of the major chipmakers and systems vendors are changing direction, setting off an architectural race that includes everything from how data is read and written in m... » read more

Blog Review: Aug. 22


Cadence's Paul McLellan considers how much further we need to go to make EUV work for 5nm, the problem of cost, and ASML's EUV roadmap. In a video, Mentor's Colin Walls explains optimizing data in embedded software with a simple example of two ways to put data in memory and how to decide which is best. Synopsys' Fred Bals provides a rundown of the different types of application security t... » read more

Blog Review: Aug. 15


Cadence's Paul McLellan checks out what's driving the growth of China's semiconductor industry plus the state of fab construction, from a CAPSA presentation by SEMI's Lung Chu. Mentor's Joe Hupcey III has some tips for how to handle inconclusive results in formal verification, starting with how to identify where the analysis got stuck. Synopsys' Taylor Armerding listens in on a presentati... » read more

High-Performance Memory At Low Cost Per Bit


Hardware developers of deep learning neural networks (DNN) have a universal complaint – they need more and more memory capacity with high performance, low cost and low power. As artificial intelligence (AI) techniques gain wider adoption, their complexity and training requirements also increase. Large and complex DNN models do not fit on the small on-chip SRAM caches near the processor. This ... » read more

Week in Review: IoT, Security, Auto


Deals Arm acquired Treasure Data, which offers a data management service. Financial terms weren’t revealed, although the transaction is reportedly worth $600 million. Joyce Kim, Arm’s chief marketing officer, told reporters that the purchase is “the largest cash deal we’ve done.” Along with the company’s introduction of Mbed Cloud (a device management service) last year and the acq... » read more

Week In Review: Design, Low Power


Arm acquired Treasure Data, a provider of enterprise data management solutions. Along with Mbed Cloud and the recent acquisition of Stream, which provides connectivity and device management, it will form the basis of Arm's new IoT management platform. Treasure Data was founded in 2011. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, although Bloomberg reported the price at $600 million. UltraSoC n... » read more

Effectively Fighting Fake Medical Products


Counterfeit goods have long existed. The worldwide ‘black market’ for brand-name items like purses and sunglasses is estimated to exceed $460B (Los Angeles Times, 2017). While fashion brands make up the majority of this illicit market, a very concerning trend is the rising amount of counterfeit medical products, including equipment, medicines, and vaccines. The World Health Organization ... » read more

Why The IIoT Is Not Secure


The Internet of Things is famously insecure, but not because the technology to build it or secure it is immature. Likewise, severely insufficient security on the Industrial IoT suffers from a lack of will. Neither tech buyers nor providers have yet invested the same effort expended in other areas of the tech world to create and adopt steps that will make everyone safer, according to chipmakers ... » read more

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