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
Cost, Cycle Time, and Carbon aware TCAD Development of new TechnologiesOur good friend Scotten Jones wrote a paper…Read More
3D ESD verification: Tackling new challenges in advanced IC designBy Dina Medhat Three key takeaways 3D ICs…Read More
Reimagining Architectural Exploration in the Age of AIThis is not about architecting a full SoC…Read MoreJourney Back to 1981: David Patterson Recounts the Birth of RISC and Its Legacy in RISC-V
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
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
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
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
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
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
A Brief History of TSMC Through 2025
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, the world’s largest dedicated semiconductor foundry, has transformed from a modest startup into a global technology powerhouse. Founded on February 21, 1987, by Morris Chang, a veteran of Texas Instruments, TSMC pioneered the “pure-play” foundry model. … Read More
Quantum Advantage is About the Algorithm, not the Computer
Of course there is a minimum requirement for the computer: enough qubits, fault-tolerant computing, support for hundreds of millions or more computations before a reset, that sort of thing. We’re still on that journey but even after we reach this goal it is important to have a sense of what delivers advantage since the computer … Read More
Google’s Road Trip to RISC-V at Warehouse Scale: Insights from Google’s Martin Dixon
In a engaging presentation at a recent RISC-V summit, Martin Dixon, Google’s Director of Data Center Performance Engineering, took the audience on a metaphorical “road trip” to explore the company’s vision for integrating RISC-V into its massive warehouse-scale computing infrastructure. Drawing… Read More




Quantum Computing Technologies and Challenges