Many of you are already familiar with Silicon Catalyst and the value it brings to semiconductor startups, the industry and the electronics industry at large. Silicon Catalyst is an organization that supports early-stage semiconductor startups with an ecosystem that provides tools and resources needed to design, create, and… Read More
SPIE Monterey- ASML, INTC – High NA Readiness- Bigger Masks/Smaller Features
– SPIE Photomask -all about High NA and bigger masks
– High NA will ramp very fast & is ramping fast – two already at Intel
– Doubling size of photomask will offset High NA exposure size problem
– Assembling litho tools at customer saves time/money- “Scanner Kits”
Christophe Fouquet
… Read More5 Expectations for the Memory Markets in 2025
TechInsights has a new memory report that is worth a look. It is free if you are a registered member which I am. HBM is of great interest and there is a section on emerging and embedded memories for chip designers. Even though I am more of a logic person, memory is an important part of the semiconductor industry. In fact, logic and memory
Sondrel Redefines the AI Chip Design Process
Designing custom silicon for AI applications is a particularly vexing problem. These chips process enormous amounts of data with a complex architecture that typically contains a diverse complement of heterogeneous processors, memory systems and various IO strategies. Each of the many subsystems in this class of chip will … Read More
Asia Driving Electronics Growth
Electronics production in the major developed countries has been showing slow growth or declines in 2024. United States electronics production three-month-average change versus a year ago (3/12 change) was 0.4% in July 2024, the slowest since the pandemic year of 2020. Growth has been slowing since averaging 6.5% in 2022 and… Read More
Collaboration Required to Maximize ASIC Chiplet Value
It is a well-known fact that chiplets provide several advantages over traditional monolithic chips. Despite these benefits, the transition to a chiplet-based design paradigm presents challenges that need coordinated efforts across the industry. In essence, collaborative efforts among various players involved are not … Read More
Serving their AI Masters
The Impact of the AI Revolution on the Server Manufacturers
While some will designate my research as market research, I view it differently. Having done and bought plenty of market sizing research, I have not seen it lead to any change in behaviour or strategy. It has been used to confirm a strategy already decided and the “great” … Read More
Semiconductor Industry Update: Fair Winds and Following Seas!
Malcolm Penn did a great job on his semiconductor update call. This is about the whole semiconductor industry (Logic and Memory) versus what I track which is mostly logic based on design starts and the foundries. Malcolm has been doing this a lot longer than I have and he has a proven methodology, but even then, semiconductors are … Read More
Samsung Adds to Bad Semiconductor News
- Samsung follows Intel in staff reductions due to weakness in chips
- Chip industry split between haves & have nots (AI & rest of chips)
- Capital spend under pressure – Facing Eventual China issues
- Stick with monopolies, avoid commodities
Samsung announces layoffs amid weak chip business and outlook
Samsung announced… Read More
Samtec Demystifies Signal Integrity for Everyone
As clock speeds go up, voltages go down and data volumes explode the need for fast, reliable and low latency data channels becomes critical in all kinds of applications. Balancing the requirements of low power and high performance requires the mastery of many skills. At the top of many lists is the need for superior signal integrity,… Read More
SPIE Monterey- ASML, INTC – High NA Readiness- Bigger Masks/Smaller Features