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An Explosion In Interconnect Complexity
By Bryon Moyer - 22 Jan, 2026 - Comments: 0

For decades, electronics offered two levels of routing structure to manage signals that originate or terminate in an integrated circuit. Recently, that number has risen to five, and while it adds far more flexibility for structuring electronic equipment, it also brings greater complexity and ratchets up the number of design decisions needed to complete a project. This transition has been evo... » read more

Addressing Critical Tradeoffs In NPU Design
By Ann Mutschler - 21 Jan, 2026 - Comments: 1

Experts At The Table: AI/ML are driving a steep ramp in neural processing unit (NPU) design activity for everything from data centers to edge devices such as PCs and smartphones. Semiconductor Engineering sat down with Jason Lawley, director of product marketing, AI IP at Cadence; Sharad Chole, chief scientist and co-founder at Expedera; Steve Roddy, chief marketing officer at Quadric; Steven W... » read more

Blog Review: Jan. 21
By Jesse Allen - 21 Jan, 2026 - Comments: 0

Keysight's Armando Valim considers the impact of AI on the memory market as AI infrastructure pressure widens the gap between high-performance memory and lower-margin consumer memory and SSD, forcing manufacturers to make strategic decisions and define which markets to serve. Cadence's Reela Samuel breaks down the major 3D-IC packaging methods used today, from wafer stacking flows to hybrid ... » read more

Chip Industry Week in Review
By The SE Staff - 16 Jan, 2026 - Comments: 0

Geopolitics Taiwan and the U.S. signed a trade agreement this week, with TSMC and other Taiwanese companies collectively pledging to directly invest at least $250B in investments in advanced semiconductor, energy and AI production and capacity in the U.S.  The agreement also included Taiwan providing another $250B in credit guarantees for additional IC supply chain expansions in the U.S., cap... » read more

The Design Challenges Of Clock Integrity And Clock Jitter
By Manoz Palaparthi - 15 Jan, 2026 - Comments: 0

Signal integrity is one of the many challenges faced by chip designers. Deep submicron technologies are unfriendly hosts for the nice, clean signals desired. The culprits that compromise signal integrity and introduce jitter include thermal effects, manufacturing flaws, signal crosstalk, IR (voltage) drop, signal loss over long runs, reflections, electromagnetic interference (EMI), ground bounc... » read more

How And Why To Optimize NPUs
By Ann Mutschler - 15 Jan, 2026 - Comments: 0

Experts At The Table: AI/ML are driving a steep ramp in neural processing unit (NPU) design activity for everything from data centers to edge devices such as PCs and smartphones.  Semiconductor Engineering sat down with Jason Lawley, director of product marketing, AI IP at Cadence; Sharad Chole, chief scientist and co-founder at Expedera; Steve Roddy, chief marketing officer at Quadric; Steven... » read more

Liquid Cooling Gains Traction In Data Centers
By Bryon Moyer - 15 Jan, 2026 - Comments: 1

All electronics generate heat, and that heat must be removed to ensure those electronics don’t overheat. Moving air has been the predominant approach for decades, with liquid cooling limited to particularly intense computing workloads, largely in the supercomputing domain. With the rise in AI, data-center power density has grown to the point where liquid cooling is now seeing a larger buil... » read more

Integrating Optics And Engineering: How Simulation Transforms Medical Device Design
By Synopsys - 14 Jan, 2026 - Comments: 0

The integration of optical systems in medical devices is a rapidly growing area of focus and investment within the medical technology sector. From surgical lasers and diagnostic imaging tools to microscopes applied in research, advanced optics have enormous potential to drive better patient outcomes. However, designing advanced optical systems for medical devices poses numerous complex... » read more

Blog Review: Jan. 14
By Jesse Allen - 14 Jan, 2026 - Comments: 0

Arm's Paul Black demonstrates how lightweight LLVM sanitizers help detect undefined behavior, improve code quality, and expose hidden bugs in embedded C and C++ projects, with a focus on two sanitizers that can catch issues such as unsigned signed shift overflows, array overflows, and stack corruption. Imagination's Alex Pim provides an overview of LLM inference acceleration for mobile and e... » read more

Robust Dynamic Voltage Droop Mitigation And Power Management
By Graham Woods - 13 Jan, 2026 - Comments: 1

Power management is one of the keys for developing successful semiconductors products. There are virtually no applications for which power consumption is not a concern. Many creative solutions have been developed to reduce and manage power. Making these schemes work robustly in real-world conditions can be a challenge. This post considers widely used methods—voltage droop/glitch detection and... » read more

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