Sander is an Applied-physics graduate from TU Delft. Worked at a semiconductor start-up during his studies, decided building a company would be the most interesting way to shape his career. In 2010, a TU Delft professor suggested combining light and electron microscopy. Sander and co-founder Andries Effting took the patent … Read More
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Podcast EP364: The Broad Impact of Advanced Mask Solutions, Today and Tomorrow with Dr. Germain Fenger
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CEO Interview with Timothy Regan of IN2FAB
Timothy Regan has substantial experience in analog/ mixed signal design and its supporting EDA technologies. His career began in linear engineering at Texas Instruments.
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Technical Case Study: MicroLED Yield Management with Plessey and yieldWerx
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Unified Emulation and Prototyping: Pipedream or Reality?
Preamble
Hardware-assisted verification (HAV) platforms, including hardware emulators and FPGA-based prototyping systems, are the two dominant methodologies for validating long workloads on complex System-on-Chip (SoC) designs before tape-out. HAV sits within a broader continuum of verification engines: simulation… Read More
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Meta recently open-sourced a capable, large-scale agent model — 30 billion parameters, a rough measure of the model’s size and complexity. It’s free, downloadable, and runs, per Meta’s own benchmarks, on a MacBook Pro with an M4 Max or M5 Max chip and 32GB of memory. Their rationale is that powerful agents belong… Read More
Intel 18A-P Pushes RibbonFET and Backside Power Beyond the First Generation
Intel Foundry has a blog on LinkedIn that is worth a look. The blogs are by trusted Intel Foundry technical experts and are filled with content. I will cherry pick write a bit about them but be sure and subscribe to this, absolutely.
Intel 18A-P is not a new process node in the conventional sense. It is a performance-enhanced derivative… Read More


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