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Chip Industry Week In Review

By The SE Staff - 23 Aug, 2024 - Comments: 0

Chinese firms imported almost $26 billion worth of chipmaking machinery, according to fresh trade data released by China’s General Administration of Customs this week, Bloomberg reports. Meanwhile, the global semiconductor manufacturing industry continued to show signs of improvement in Q2 2024 with significant growth of IC sales, stabilizing capital expenditure, and an increase in install... » read more

Market And Tech Inflections Ahead

By Ed Sperling - 27 Jun, 2018 - Comments: 0

Aart de Geus, chairman and co-CEO of Synopsys, sat down with Semiconductor Engineering to talk about the path to autonomous vehicles, industry dis-aggregation and re-aggregation, security issues, and who's going to pay for chips at advanced nodes. SE: All of a sudden we have a bunch of new markets opening up for electronics. We have assisted and autonomous driving, AI and machine learning, v... » read more

Mapping Silicon Valley’s Changes

By Ed Sperling - 04 Feb, 2016 - Comments: 0

Silicon Valley is changing again, this time in ways no one would have predicted a decade ago. The Valley has a long history of reinventing itself, and to some extent redefining the boundaries of exactly what constitutes Silicon Valley. The core of the Valley started out producing electronic components primarily for the military and then large electronics companies in the 1970s. The actual te... » read more

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Auto chiplet consortium; more nuke plants for AI; critical IC materials risk; TIMs; Foxconn in Mexico; ML in auto MCUs; 3nm PHY chiplet; chip health monitoring; AI test.

by The SE Staff

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Fab processes that enable stacked transistors, hybrid bonding, and advanced packaging are driving the need for more and better measurements.

by Laura Peters

Startup Funding: Q3 2024

New startups emerge from stealth; 75 companies raise $2 billion.

Chip Industry Week In Review

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by The SE Staff

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Startup Funding: Q2 2024

Big rounds for AI chips; 91 startups raise $2.6 billion.

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