IEDM: What Comes After Silicon?

IEDM: What Comes After Silicon?
by Daniel Nenni on 01-09-2024 at 10:00 am

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The annual International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM) took place last month. One of the presentations on the short course was by Matthew Metz of Intel titled New Materials Systems for Moore’s Law Continuation. In essence this was a look at some of the possibilities for what comes after silicon runs out of steam.

Matthew started… Read More


2024 Outlook with Matt Burns of Samtec

2024 Outlook with Matt Burns of Samtec
by Daniel Nenni on 01-04-2024 at 6:00 am

Matt Burns Samtec

Matt develops go-to-market strategies for Samtec’s Silicon to Silicon solutions. Over the course of 20+ years, he has been a leader in design, technical sales and marketing in the telecommunications, medical and electronic components industries. It has been an honor working with Matt and his team for the last 3 years and I value… Read More


CEO Interview: Oshri Cohen of Cybord

CEO Interview: Oshri Cohen of Cybord
by Daniel Nenni on 01-03-2024 at 10:00 am

Oshri Cohen CEO of Cybord

Oshri Cohen is an executive officer with 20+ years of vast management experience in operations, engineering, and supply chain in multinational high-tech companies. Before joining Cybord, Oshri headed Supply chain at Nvidia Networks. Prior to that Mr. Cohen held the global procurement and logistics at Mellanox (Acquired by… Read More


Alphawave Semiconductor Powering Progress

Alphawave Semiconductor Powering Progress
by Daniel Nenni on 01-03-2024 at 6:00 am

Alphawave Semiconductor Chiplets

Do you know who had another great year? Alphawave Semi did. Despite being relatively young in the industry (founded in 2017), the company has quickly gained recognition for its advancements in high-speed connectivity solutions.

They specialize in developing high-speed connectivity solutions for Data centre, AI, 5G wireless… Read More


2024 Big Race is TSMC N2 and Intel 18A

2024 Big Race is TSMC N2 and Intel 18A
by Daniel Nenni on 01-01-2024 at 6:00 am

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There is a lot being said about Intel getting the lead back from TSMC with their 18A process. Like anything else in the semiconductor industry there is much more here than meets the eye, absolutely.

From the surface, TSMC has a massive ecosystem and is in the lead as far as process technologies and foundry design starts but Intel is … Read More


Agile Analog Partners with sureCore for Quantum Computing

Agile Analog Partners with sureCore for Quantum Computing
by Daniel Nenni on 12-21-2023 at 10:00 am

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Quantum computing is the next big thing for the computing world. The semiconductor industry has been talking about it for years. It’s shiny, mysterious, and capable of some incredible things. Instead of using classical bits to represent information (which can be either a 0 or a 1), quantum computers use quantum bits or qubitsRead More


Ceva Launches New Brand Identity Reflecting its Focus on Smart Edge IP Innovation

Ceva Launches New Brand Identity Reflecting its Focus on Smart Edge IP Innovation
by Daniel Nenni on 12-18-2023 at 10:00 am

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Company sharpens its strategy of delivering silicon and software IP that makes it possible for low power Edge AI devices to connect, sense and infer data, reliably and efficiently, across multiple high-growth end markets

Ceva Inc. is an interesting company. Founded in November 2002, through the combination of the DSP IP licensing… Read More


CEO Interview: Sridhar Joshi of TenXer

CEO Interview: Sridhar Joshi of TenXer
by Daniel Nenni on 12-15-2023 at 6:00 am

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Sridhar Joshi has more than Two and half decades of experience in the Semiconductor Industry. He spent Large part of his career working in various Engineering and leadership roles at National Semiconductor and Texas Instruments, including leading a company wide initiative for System Design and Technology, ARM Microcontroller… Read More


An Insider’s View of the 2023 Global Semiconductor Alliance’s (GSA) Annual Awards

An Insider’s View of the 2023 Global Semiconductor Alliance’s (GSA) Annual Awards
by Daniel Nenni on 12-14-2023 at 10:00 am

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My beautiful wife and I attended the annual Global Semiconductor Alliance (GSA) Awards event last week. Usually this is a solo event but since my wife is CFO of SemiWiki I was able to get her an invite. I go every year and she wanted to see what all of the excitement was about. She also knows quite a few industry people from attending the… Read More


WEBINAR: Joint Pre synthesis RTL & Power Intent Assembly flow for Large System on Chips and Subsystems

WEBINAR: Joint Pre synthesis RTL & Power Intent Assembly flow for Large System on Chips and Subsystems
by Daniel Nenni on 12-11-2023 at 10:00 am

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Nowadays, low power design requirements are key for large SoCs (system on chips) for different applications: AI, Mobile, HPC, etc. Power intent management early in the design flow is becoming crucial to help facing PPA (Power Performance Area) design challenges.

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With the increasing complexity of such … Read More