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Why TSMC is Known as the Trusted Foundry

Why TSMC is Known as the Trusted Foundry
by Daniel Nenni on 12-24-2025 at 10:00 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 12-24-2025 at 6:00 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 12-23-2025 at 10:00 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 12-23-2025 at 8:00 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 12-23-2025 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 12-22-2025 at 2:00 pm

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 12-22-2025 at 10:00 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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A Brief History of TSMC Through 2025

A Brief History of TSMC Through 2025
by Daniel Nenni on 12-22-2025 at 8:00 am

About TSMC 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

Quantum Advantage is About the Algorithm, not the Computer
by Bernard Murphy on 12-22-2025 at 6:00 am

Conductor orchestrating waves inside a quantum 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

Google’s Road Trip to RISC-V at Warehouse Scale: Insights from Google’s Martin Dixon
by Daniel Nenni on 12-21-2025 at 3:00 pm

Google RISC V in Datacenter 2025

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