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Intel High NA Adoption

Intel High NA Adoption
by Scotten Jones on 04-24-2024 at 6:00 pm

High NA EUV Final Pre Briefing Deck 4.15.24 embargoed til 4.18 at 7am PT (1) Page 07

On Friday April 12th Intel held a press briefing on their adoption of High NA EUV with Intel fellow and director of lithography Mark Phillips.

In 1976 Intel built Fab 4 in Oregon, the first Intel fab outside of California. With the introduction of 300mm Oregon became the only development site for Intel with large manufacturing, development,… Read More


Real men have fabs!

Real men have fabs!
by admin on 04-24-2024 at 8:00 am

Semiconductor Ecosystem

“Real men have fabs” was an insult AMD founder Jerry Sanders hurled at his poor competitors who could not afford to build fabs. A few years later, AMD would be fabless, spinning off its manufacturing facilities as GlobalFoundries. This was the beginning of a transformative period for the industry.

Lisa Su could rightfully retort:

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CEO Interview: Khaled Maalej, VSORA Founder and CEO

CEO Interview: Khaled Maalej, VSORA Founder and CEO
by Daniel Nenni on 04-17-2024 at 10:00 am

Khaaled Maalej

Khaled Maalej is founder and CEO of VSORA, a provider of high-performance silicon chips for GenerativeAI and L4/L5 autonomous driving (AD) applications based in France. Before founding VSORA in 2015, Maalej was CTO at DiBcom, a fabless semiconductor company that designed chipsets for low-power mobile TV and radio reception… Read More


Soitec Delivers the Foundation for Next-Generation Interconnects

Soitec Delivers the Foundation for Next-Generation Interconnects
by Mike Gianfagna on 04-17-2024 at 6:00 am

Soitec Delivers the Foundation for Next Generation Interconnects

Soitec is a unique company that is at the center of major changes in our industry. Technology megatrends are fueling massive demand for semiconductors and this has increased the adoption of engineered substrates. As a global leader in the development of engineered substrates, Soitec is a company to watch. While this technology… Read More


Intel is Bringing AI Everywhere

Intel is Bringing AI Everywhere
by Mike Gianfagna on 04-10-2024 at 10:00 am

Intel is Bringing AI Everywhere

On April 8 and 9 Intel held its Intel Vision event in Phoenix Arizona. This is Intel’s premier event for business and technology executive leaders to come together and learn about the latest industry trends and solutions in advancements from client, to edge, to data center and cloud. The theme of this year’s event was Bringing AI Read More


Podcast EP215: A Tour of the GlobalFoundries Silicon Photonics Platform with Vikas Gupta

Podcast EP215: A Tour of the GlobalFoundries Silicon Photonics Platform with Vikas Gupta
by Daniel Nenni on 04-05-2024 at 10:00 am

Dan is joined by Vikas Gupta, senior director of product management at GlobalFoundries focused on Silicon Photonics and ancillary technologies. Vikas has close to 30 years of semiconductor experience with TI, Xilinx, AMD, GlobalFoundries, POET Technologies, and back to GlobalFoundries.

Vikas discusses the growing demands… Read More


TSMC and Synopsys Bring Breakthrough NVIDIA Computational Lithography Platform to Production

TSMC and Synopsys Bring Breakthrough NVIDIA Computational Lithography Platform to Production
by Daniel Nenni on 04-02-2024 at 6:00 am

nvidia culitho

NVIDIA cuLitho Accelerates Semiconductor Manufacturing’s Most Compute-Intensive Workload by 40-60x, Opens Industry to New Generative AI Algorithms.

An incredible example of semiconductor industry partnerships was revealed during the Synopsys User Group (SNUG) last month. It started with a press release but there is much… Read More


No! TSMC does not Make 90% of Advanced Silicon

No! TSMC does not Make 90% of Advanced Silicon
by Scotten Jones on 03-11-2024 at 2:00 pm

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Throughout the debate on fab incentives and the Chips Act I keep seeing comments like; TSMC makes >90% of all advanced silicon, or sometimes Taiwan make >90% of all advanced silicon. This kind of ill-defined and grossly inaccurate statement drives me crazy. I just saw someone make that same claim in the SemiWiki forums and… Read More


Intel and TSMC IDM 2024 Discussions

Intel and TSMC IDM 2024 Discussions
by admin on 03-10-2024 at 8:00 am

TSMC Intel

In December 2023, we published the Intel Revenue forecast for external wafer sales, gave a breakdown on how customers plan to ramp the foundry. The forecast is still valid (it assumes Intel executes on all plans) but since then we have a better understanding of Intel’s strategy and scenarios that could unfold.

The scenarios… Read More


Podcast EP210: How VSORA is Opening New Horizons for Generative AI and ADAS Applications

Podcast EP210: How VSORA is Opening New Horizons for Generative AI and ADAS Applications
by Daniel Nenni on 03-01-2024 at 10:00 am

Dan is joined by Jan Pantzar vice president of sales and marketing at VSORA, a provider of high-performance generative AI and ADAS chip solutions based in France. Mr. Pantzar gained extensive experience in the semiconductor, IP and software industries through building and managing organizations around the globe. Previous … Read More