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Podcast EP314: An Overview of Toshiba’s Strength in Power Electronics with Jake Canon

Podcast EP314: An Overview of Toshiba’s Strength in Power Electronics with Jake Canon
by Daniel Nenni on 10-29-2025 at 8:00 am
Categories: General

Daniel is joined by Jake Canon, senior business development engineer at Toshiba America Electronic Components. Jake is an enthusiastic contributor to the semiconductor industry and has been working closely with engineers to find new discrete power solutions for a wide variety of cutting-edge applications.

Dan explores the… Read More

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Global Semiconductor Industry Outlook 2026

Global Semiconductor Industry Outlook 2026
by Admin on 09-18-2025 at 6:00 am
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Semiconductor and Beyond 2026 PWC

PwC’s comprehensive report, “Semiconductor and Beyond,” released in 2026, provides a strategic outlook on the global semiconductor industry amid rapid transformations driven by AI, geopolitical tensions, and supply chain shifts. Structured into four sections—Foreword, Demand Analysis, Supply Analysis,… Read More

Podcast EP306: The Challenges of Advanced AI Data Center Design with Josue Navarro

Podcast EP306: The Challenges of Advanced AI Data Center Design with Josue Navarro
by Daniel Nenni on 09-05-2025 at 10:00 am
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Dan is joined by Josue Navarro, product marketing engineer for Microchip’s dsPIC business unit. He began his career as a process engineer at Intel and has since transitioned into product marketing with Microchip Technology where he supports customers developing system designs utilizing Microchip’s Digital Signal … Read More

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Speculative Execution: Rethinking the Approach to CPU Scheduling

Speculative Execution: Rethinking the Approach to CPU Scheduling
by Admin on 05-07-2025 at 6:00 am
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IBM AI

By Dr. Thang Minh Tran, CEO/CTO Simplex Micro

In the world of modern computing, speculative execution has played a pivotal role in boosting performance by allowing processors to guess the outcomes of instructions ahead of time, keeping pipelines full and reducing idle cycles. Initially introduced during the development of … Read More

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Happy New Year from SemiWiki

Happy New Year from SemiWiki
by Daniel Nenni on 01-01-2025 at 6:00 am
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Happy New Year 2024

As SemiWiki celebrates our 14th anniversary I wanted to wish you all a happy New Year! Working in the semiconductor industry for the past 40 years has been rewarding beyond belief. Working in the trenches and traveling the world has been an education in itself, more so than any other career that I could imagine. SemiWiki has broadened… Read More

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From Space-Central to Space-Time Balanced – A Perspective for Moore’s Law 2.0 and A Holistic Paradigm for Emergence

From Space-Central to Space-Time Balanced – A Perspective for Moore’s Law 2.0 and A Holistic Paradigm for Emergence
by Daniel Nenni on 10-24-2024 at 4:00 pm
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A friend of SemiWiki published an article on Moore’s Law in IEEE that I think is worth reading:

IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, Vol. 41, Issue 4.

The topic of Moore’s Law is of paramount importance, reaching almost the entire field of electronics (and the semiconductor industry). In the course of six decades, for the first… Read More

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Semiconductors, Apple Pie, and the 4th of July!

Semiconductors, Apple Pie, and the 4th of July!
by Daniel Nenni on 07-04-2023 at 6:00 am
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Semiconductors, apple pie, and the 4th of July are American traditions. You can read about the history of semiconductors in our book “Fabless: The Transformation of the Semiconductor Industry” and the history of Arm in our book “Mobile Unleashed: The Origin and Evolution of Arm processors in our Devices“.… Read More

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Trends and Challenges in Quantum Computing

Trends and Challenges in Quantum Computing
by Ahmed Banafa on 02-02-2023 at 10:00 am
Categories: General

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Quantum Computing is the area of study focused on developing computer technology based on the principles of quantum theory. Tens of billions of public and private capitals are being invested in Quantum technologies. Countries across the world have realized that quantum technologies can be a major disruptor of existing businesses… Read More

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Careful Who You Work for

Careful Who You Work for
by Roger C. Lanctot on 02-02-2023 at 6:00 am
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Careful Who You Work for

When one is looking for a job and that hunt extends from weeks into months or even years one is inclined to default to an any-port-in-a-storm mindset. Some recent experiences suggest to me that that mentality may need a reevaluation.

I was surprised to learn recently, from conversations with industry acquaintances, that one’s… Read More

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Effective Writing and ChatGPT. The SEMI Test

Effective Writing and ChatGPT. The SEMI Test
by Bernard Murphy on 01-25-2023 at 6:00 am
Categories: AI, General
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ChatGPT is a hot topic, leading a few of my colleagues to ask me as a writer what I think of the technology.  I write content for tech companies and most of my contacts freely confess that they or more often their experts struggle with writing. If a tool could do that job for them they would be happy and I would have to find a different hobby.… Read More