Chip Industry Week in Review

By The SE Staff - 03 Jul, 2025 - Comments: 0

[Editor's Note: Early edition due to the U.S. July 4 holiday.] The U.S. government lifted export restrictions that barred Synopsys, Siemens EDA, and Cadence from selling EDA tools to China. In a statement, Synopsys said it received a letter from the U.S. Commerce Department immediately rescinding those restrictions. Which tools or hardware accelerated technologies were involved was not immed... » read more

Blog Review: July 2

By Jesse Allen - 02 Jul, 2025 - Comments: 0

Synopsys’ Shankar Krishnamoorthy chats with industry experts about how the combination of AI and software-defined systems is driving a re-evaluation of engineering workflows and why chip, software, and system development must evolve in unison. Siemens’ Jake Wiltgen considers the rapidly evolving and growing challenge of performing DFT verification as designs scale, with complex hierarchi... » read more

Chip Industry Week in Review

By The SE Staff - 27 Jun, 2025 - Comments: 0

AI featured big at this week's Design Automation Conference (DAC) in San Francisco. Dozens of companies featured AI-related tools (see product section below), as well as significant improvements to existing tools and some entirely new approaches for designing chips. Among the highlights: Siemens unveiled an AI-enhanced toolset for the EDA design flow that enables customers to integrate the... » read more

Blog Review: June 25

By Jesse Allen - 25 Jun, 2025 - Comments: 0

Siemens’ John McMillan provides a detailed overview of 3D-IC technology and heterogeneous integration, from the market trends driving its adoption to the design, verification, and manufacturing challenges involved. Synopsys’ Gunnar Braun and Stewart Williams check out how cloud-based development practices and virtual prototypes can enable earlier and more efficient testing and validation... » read more

Chip Industry Week in Review

By The SE Staff - 20 Jun, 2025 - Comments: 0

Texas Instruments will invest more than $60 billion to build and expand seven semiconductor fabs in Texas and Utah, supporting more than 60,000 U.S. jobs. Chinese automakers — including SAIC Motor, Changan, Great Wall Motor, BYD, Li Auto and Geely — are aiming to launch new models with 100% homemade chips, some as early as 2026, reports Nikkei Asia. Marvell introduced 2nm custom SRAM ... » read more

Critical Minerals Due Diligence And The Semiconductor Supply Chain

By Kimberly Harrison - 19 Jun, 2025 - Comments: 0

“Critical minerals our world needs for electric vehicles and semiconductors can be found here. Clean energy we need to power artificial intelligence data centers and economic growth can be built here.”[1] This statement was made by former US President Joseph Biden during his visit to Angola in December 2024 to support a US-funded railroad project called the Lobito Corridor. The railroad wou... » read more

Blog Review: June 18

By Jesse Allen - 18 Jun, 2025 - Comments: 0

Synopsys’ John Koeter and other industry experts discuss whether high-bandwidth memory should follow established standards for broad compatibility and scalability or be customized to address specific use case requirements and time-to-market targets. In a podcast, Siemens’ Conor Peick, Dale Tutt, and Mike Ellow chat about how progress in 3D-IC development, thermal management, and the indu... » read more

High-Quality Data Needed To Better Utilize Fab Data Streams

By Anne Meixner - 10 Jun, 2025 - Comments: 0

Fab operations have wrestled with big data management issues for decades. Standards help, but only if sufficient attention to detail is taken during collection. Semiconductor wafer manufaFcturing represents one of the most complex manufacturing processes in the world. With each generation of process improvement comes more sophisticated fab equipment, new process recipes, and exponential incr... » read more

Chip Industry Week in Review

By The SE Staff - 06 Jun, 2025 - Comments: 0

Qualcomm announced plans to buy Alphawave Semi for ~$2.4 billion in a deal expected to close in Q1 2026. Qualcomm plans to leverage Alphawave Semi's connectivity products, including chiplets, to develop high-performance, low-power solutions for AI inferencing and customized CPUs in data centers. Qualcomm's traditional targets were mobile phones and edge computing. [Updated 6/9.] Global semic... » read more

Blog Review: June 4

By Jesse Allen - 04 Jun, 2025 - Comments: 0

In a podcast, Siemens’ Conor Peick, Dale Tutt, and Mike Ellow chat about the implications of the software-defined transition, how it affects semiconductor development, and why it seems to be leading more companies towards developing their own silicon. Cadence’s Vinod Khera shows off a Linux-based audio development platform for prototyping AI audio applications with support for real-time ... » read more

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