Synopsys continues security acquisitions; NXP-Freescale shareholders approve merger; Intel management changes.
Synopsys continued its expansion into security with the acquisition of security IP provider Elliptic Technologies. The Canadian company’s focus was cryptography cores, security protocol accelerators and processors, Root of Trust embedded security IP modules, secure boot and cryptography middleware as well as content protection IP for integration into SoCs.
NXP and Freescale shareholders approved the pending merger, clearing the way for one of the biggest deals of the year.
Intel announced some leadership and organizational changes. President Renee James and Arvind Sodhani, president of Intel Capital, both will step down in January. James will take on an external CEO role.
30 facilities planned, including 10/7nm processes, but trade war and economic factors could slow progress.
Leaders of three R&D organizations, Imec, Leti and SRC, discuss the latest chip trends in AI, packaging and quantum computing.
Applied Materials’ VP looks at what’s next for semiconductor manufacturing and the impact of variation, new materials and different architectures.
What could make this memory type stand out from the next-gen memory crowd.
Researchers digging into ways around the von Neumann bottleneck.
Chips will cost more to design and manufacture even without pushing to the latest node, but that’s not the whole story.
This will go down as a good year for the semiconductor industry, where new markets and innovation were both necessary and rewarded.
Researchers digging into ways around the von Neumann bottleneck.
The term creates hope for some, fear for others, and confusion for all.
While CPUs continue to evolve, performance is no longer limited to a single processor type or process geometry.
Optimizing complex chips requires decisions about overall system architecture, and memory is a key variable.
Why data scrubbing and social issues could limit the speed of adoption and the usefulness of this technology.
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