The global semiconductor market grew 25% in the 1st quarter of 2026 from the 4th quarter of 2025 to reach $299 billion, according to WSTS. The 1st quarter of 2026 was up 79% from a year earlier. The 25% quarter-to-quarter growth was the highest in the over 40-year history of WSTS data, surpassing the 20% growth in the 2nd quarter of 2009.… Read More
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Accurate, complete, and consistent technical documentation is a critical element of success for any embedded system design project. This includes IP, SoCs, and the associated hardware and software infrastructure. When documentation contains errors, the consequences go beyond engineering inefficiency. Errors that drive… Read More
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A single bug on a full-chip SoC can pull engineers off roadmap work for days or even weeks. It involves massive waveforms, thousands of files of RTL and UVM, and dense specs that aren’t always perfect. Finding these bugs have always been a matter of engineer-hours and how well knowledge diffuses through the organization.
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Europe is Getting Serious About ASIC Innovation
I was born in the UK (then still a part of Europe), so always eager to see them succeed. But I must admit that past behavior has reinforced the view that the EU’s only active “contribution” to progress is regulation. However this seems to be changing in multiple interesting ways. On a grand scale, the Nordic economic model is taking … Read More
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At the recent TSMC Technology Symposium 2026, Siemens EDA reinforced its position as one of the key ecosystem partners supporting TSMC in the race toward AI-driven semiconductor design, advanced packaging, and next-generation process technologies. The annual forum has become one of the semiconductor industry’s most important… Read More
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In the rapidly evolving world of artificial intelligence hardware, memory bandwidth and data movement have become just as important as raw compute power. Addressing this challenge head-on, Semidynamics has announced a strategic investment aimed at accelerating the development of its next-generation memory-centric AI … Read More
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I posted recently on an eye-catching advance in quantum computing, around neutral atom systems which might accelerate the transition to production-grade fault-tolerant quantum computing (QC). There are some further updates on this front, also I listened in on a panel considering quantum-based hacking vulnerability in the… Read More
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As the threat of quantum computing to modern cybersecurity becomes increasingly real, the technology industry is accelerating efforts to develop cryptographic systems capable of resisting quantum attacks. One of the most significant developments in this field was presented at Embedded World 2026 in Nuremberg, Germany, … Read More
Closing the Silicon Realization Gap: From Static DFM to Governance for Lifecycle (GFL)
The semiconductor industry has achieved extraordinary mastery in silicon signoff. Modern EDA environments can now optimize timing closure, physical verification, IR/EM behavior, routing density, thermal interaction, and increasingly even design-space exploration through AI-assisted implementation flows. Crossing… Read More
imec IC-Link and TSMC 3DFabric Alliance Expansion Signals New Era of System-Level Scaling
imec announced that IC-Link by imec has joined the TSMC 3DFabric Alliance, a strategically important move that reflects the semiconductor industry’s transition from traditional monolithic scaling toward heterogeneous integration, chiplet architectures, and advanced packaging-driven system optimization. The partnership… Read More


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