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by Fred Chen on 12-28-2025 at 2:00 pm

Number of masks required for the M0 through M3 layers

Earlier this month, TechInsights did a teardown of the Kirin 9030 chip found in Huawei’s Mate 80 Pro Max [1]. Two clear statements were made on the findings: (1) the transistor density of SMIC’s “N+3” process was definitely below that of the earlier 5nm processes from Samsung and TSMC, and (2) metal pitch was aggressively scaled

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CEO Interview with Gopi Sirineni of Axiado

CEO Interview with Gopi Sirineni of Axiado
by Daniel Nenni on 12-28-2025 at 12:00 pm

Gopi Sirineni Axiado

Gopi Sirineni is a Silicon Valley veteran with four startups and over 25 years of experience in the semiconductor, software and systems industries. As a senior executive, he has demonstrated exceptional skills in building highly efficient, cost-effective organizations, managing them in rapidly changing environments, and… Read More


Podcast EP324: How Dassault is Creating the Next Generation of Semiconductor Design and Manufacturing with John Maculley

Podcast EP324: How Dassault is Creating the Next Generation of Semiconductor Design and Manufacturing with John Maculley
by Daniel Nenni on 12-26-2025 at 10:00 am

Daniel is joined by John Maculley, Global High-Tech Industry Strategy Consultant at Dassault Systèmes. John has over 20 years of experience advancing innovation across the semiconductor and electronics sectors. Based in Silicon Valley, he works with leading foundries, OSATs, design houses, and research institutes worldwide… Read More


Why TSMC is Known as the Trusted Foundry

Why TSMC is Known as the Trusted Foundry
by Daniel Nenni on 12-26-2025 at 6:00 am

TSMC Ivey Fab

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) is widely regarded as the world’s most trusted semiconductor foundry, a reputation built over decades through technological leadership, business model discipline, operational excellence, and reliability. In an industry where trust is as critical as transistor density,… Read More


Journey Back to 1981: David Patterson Recounts the Birth of RISC and Its Legacy in RISC-V

Journey Back to 1981: David Patterson Recounts the Birth of RISC and Its Legacy in RISC-V
by Daniel Nenni on 12-25-2025 at 10:00 am

RISC V Summit 2025 David Patterson

In a warmly received keynote at the RISC-V Summit, computer architecture legend David Patterson took the audience on a captivating trip back to 1981, using scanned versions of his original overhead transparencies to recount the birth of Reduced Instruction Set Computing (RISC) at UC Berkeley.

Patterson began with humor, noting… Read More


Assertion-First Hardware Design and Formal Verification Services

Assertion-First Hardware Design and Formal Verification Services
by Kalar Rajendiran on 12-25-2025 at 6:00 am

LUBIS EDA Modelling

Generative AI has transformed software development, enabling entire applications to be built in minutes. But despite similar progress in AI-generated RTL, hardware verification remains a major bottleneck. RTL can be produced quickly, yet proving its correctness is extraordinarily difficult. This has revived a long-standing… Read More


TSMC’s Customized Technical Documentation Platform Enhances Customer Experience

TSMC’s Customized Technical Documentation Platform Enhances Customer Experience
by Daniel Nenni on 12-24-2025 at 10:00 am

TSMC Online 2025

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, the world’s leading dedicated semiconductor foundry, has long prioritized customer-centric innovation to maintain its competitive edge in a rapidly evolving industry. TSMC is known as “The Trusted Foundry” for this reason.

Amid increasing complexity in… Read More


The 10 Practical Steps to Model and Design a Complex SoC: Insights from Aion Silicon

The 10 Practical Steps to Model and Design a Complex SoC: Insights from Aion Silicon
by Daniel Nenni on 12-24-2025 at 6:00 am

10 Practical SoC Steps AION Silicon

In the fast-evolving world of semiconductor design, creating a complex System-on-Chip (SoC) requires meticulous planning to ensure performance, power efficiency, and cost-effectiveness. Aion Silicon’s white paper, authored by Piyush Singh, outlines a streamlined methodology that leverages advanced modeling… Read More


PDF Solutions’ AI-Driven Collaboration & Smarter Decisions

PDF Solutions’ AI-Driven Collaboration & Smarter Decisions
by Kalar Rajendiran on 12-23-2025 at 10:00 am

11 Commandments of AI Application Adoption

When most people hear the term PDF, they immediately think of a PDF file, a universal, platform-independent way to share electronic documents.

There is, however, another PDF that many outside the semiconductor industry may not be familiar with. And this PDF actually predates the PDF file format. It is short for PDF Solutions, … Read More


Bringing Low-Frequency Noise into Focus

Bringing Low-Frequency Noise into Focus
by Admin on 12-23-2025 at 6:00 am

1. Primarius offers a one stop RTN solution

Key takeaways

  • The challenge of acquiring high-quality, reproducible noise data becomes achievable with Primarius’ wafer-level low-frequency noise characterization solution, which is essential for advanced nodes.
  • The Primarius 981X family raises the bar for low-frequency noise measurement metrology with its unique
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