Chip Industry Week In Review

By The SE Staff - 08 Nov, 2024 - Comments: 0

Semiconductor global sales increased 23% in Q3 2024 $166B, up almost 11% versus the same period in 2023, according to SIA. Notable regional year-to-year sales in September: Americas up 46%, China up 23%, Europe down 8%. Fig.1: Worldwide Semiconductor Revenues, year-to-year % change. Source: Semiconductor Industry Association, as compiled by World Semiconductor Trade Statistics organization... » read more

Software-Defined Vehicles for Dummies

By Arm - 11 Sep, 2024 - Comments: 0

This latest Dummies Guide takes you through the captivating world of software-defined vehicles (SDVs), offering important insights into the technologies and systems that propel SDVs, and their impact on the future of transportation. This book covers the foundational understanding of SDVs and progressively delves into their various aspects, exploring the potential implications of this rapidly ev... » read more

Combining Silicon Data Capture And Edge Processing Offers A Promising Solution For Automotive OEMs

By Lorin Kennedy - 05 Sep, 2024 - Comments: 0

By Lorin Kennedy and Jasmin Mulaosmanovic In the world of electric (EV) and software-defined vehicles (SDV), a key challenge and opportunity besets original equipment manufacturers (OEM): that of effectively harnessing in-vehicle and silicon data to improve user experience and quite literally drive business benefits. While collecting telemetry data is straightforward enough, the difficulty l... » read more

From Data To Safety On-The-Road Hardware Health Monitoring

By proteanTecs - 07 Feb, 2024 - Comments: 0

The automotive industry is currently experiencing a transformation driven by electrification, connectivity, and autonomous driving. Vehicles require extensive computational capabilities and generate massive amounts of data. Future cars will embrace new architectures, becoming software-defined "computers on wheels" capable of hosting advanced applications, machine learning algorithms, and contin... » read more

For SDVs, Software Is The Biggest Challenge

By John Koon - 02 Nov, 2023 - Comments: 0

Software-defined vehicles (SDVs) involve far more than just OTA applications enabling software upgrades over the air. Software that will manage hundreds of ECUs and other functions within the vehicle is expected to grow beyond hundreds of millions of lines of code, possibly making SDV software development the number one challenge in automotive design. The benefits of SDVs, such as easy updat... » read more

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Intel Vs. Samsung Vs. TSMC

Foundry competition heats up in three dimensions and with novel technologies as planar scaling benefits diminish.

by Ed Sperling

Partitioning In The Chiplet Era

Understanding how chiplets interact under different workloads is critical to ensuring signal integrity and optimal performance in heterogeneous designs.

by Ann Mutschler

3.5D: The Great Compromise

Pros and cons of a middle-ground chiplet assembly that combines 2.5D and 3D-IC.

by Ed Sperling

Legacy Process Nodes Going Strong

The critical, and growing, significance of mature node chips and processes.

by Bryon Moyer

AI’s Role In Chip Design Widens, Drawing In New Startups

Focus is on letting engineers do much more with the same or fewer resources — and less drudgery.

by Karen Heyman

Key Technologies To Extend EUV To 14 Angstroms

Alongside high-NA EUV will be better-performing photoresists, reduced roughness using passivation and etch, and lateral etching to reduce tip-to-tip dimensions.

by Laura Peters