Socionext’s recent run of rapid 3D-IC tape-outs is a noteworthy milestone for the industry with two successful tape-outs in just seven months for complex, multi-die designs aimed at AI and HPC workloads. That pace of iteration highlights how advanced packaging, richer EDA toolchains, and closer foundry-ecosystem collaboration… Read More
Author: Daniel Nenni
TSMC based 3D Chips: Socionext Achieves Two Successful Tape-Outs in Just Seven Months!
RISC-V Extensions for AI: Enhancing Performance in Machine Learning
In a presentation at the RISC-V Summit North America 2025, John Simpson, Senior Principal Architect at SiFive, delved into the evolving landscape of RISC-V extensions tailored for artificial intelligence and machine learning. RISC-V’s open architecture has fueled its adoption in AI/ML markets by allowing customization… Read More
CISCO ASIC Success with Synopsys SLM IPs
Cisco’s relentless push toward higher-performance networking silicon has placed extraordinary demands on its ASIC design methodology. As transistor densities continue to rise across advanced SoCs, traditional design-time guardbands are no longer sufficient to ensure long-term reliability, consistent performance,
RISC-V: Powering the Era of Intelligent General Computing
Charlie Su, President and CTO of Andes Technology, delivered a compelling keynote at the 2025 RISC-V Summit North America, asserting that RISC-V is primed to drive the burgeoning field of Intelligent General Computing. This emerging paradigm integrates AI and machine learning into everyday computing devices, from AI-enabled… Read More
Why TSMC is Known as the Trusted Foundry
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
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
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
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
CEO Interview with Gopi Sirineni of Axiado
Gopi Sirineni is a Silicon Valley veteran with four startups and over 25 years of experience in the semiconductor, software and systems industries. As a senior executive, he has demonstrated exceptional skills in building highly efficient, cost-effective organizations, managing them in rapidly changing environments, and… Read More
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