It was my pleasure to meet with Vamshi Kothur and the Tuple team at #62DAC for a briefing on their Tropos platform and Omni, a new multi-cloud optimizer. The conferences this year have been AI infused with exciting new technologies but one of the lingering questions is: How will the existing semiconductor design IT infrastructure… Read More
Visualizing System Design with Samtec’s Picture Search
If you’ve spent a lot of time in the chip or EDA business, “design” typically means chip design. These days it means heterogeneous multi-chip design. If you’ve spent time developing end products, “design” has a much broader meaning. Chips, subsystems, chassis and product packaging are in focus. This is just a short list if you consider… Read More
IP Surgery and the Redundant Logic Problem
It’s now difficult to remember when we didn’t reuse our own IP and didn’t have access to extensive catalogs of commercial IP. But reuse comes with a downside – without modification we can’t finetune IP specs to exactly what we want in a current design. We’re contractually limited in how we can adapt commercial IP, however vendors … Read More
Electronics Up, Smartphones down
Electronics production in key Asian countries has been steady to increasing in the last several months. In April 2025, China electronics production three-month-average change versus a year ago (3/12) was 11.5%, up from 9.5% in January but below the average 3/12 of 12% in 2024. India showed the strongest growth, with 3/12 of 15%… Read More
The Sondrel transformation to Aion SIlicon!
Ollie is a commercially astute senior leader with over 20 years of experience in strategy, business development and sales across the technology and engineering sectors, with a strong track record in scaling businesses and driving growth. He has held commercial leadership roles in FTSE 100, private equity-backed, and startup… Read More
Tuple Technologies at the 2025 Design Automation Conference #62DAC
Tuple Technologies delivers Tropos, a platform automating IT infrastructure across Cloud, Hybrid or On-prem and DevSecOps for semiconductor IC, FPGA, and system design, optimizing costs and cybersecurity.
Attendees who step into the Tuple Technologies booth during DAC (Booth #1237) will see demonstrations of its Tropos … Read More
Semiconductor Market Uncertainty
WSTS reported 1st quarter 2025 semiconductor market revenues of $167.7 billion, up 18.8% from a year earlier and down 2.8% from the prior quarter. The first quarter of 2025 was weak for most major semiconductor companies. Ten of the sixteen companies in the table below had declines in revenue versus 4Q 2024, ranging from -0.1% from… Read More
Alchip’s Technology and Global Talent Strategy Deliver Record Growth
Alchip Technologies Ltd., a global leader in high-performance computing (HPC) and artificial intelligence (AI) ASIC design and production services, continues its trajectory of rapid growth and technical leadership by pushing the boundaries of advanced-node silicon, expanding its global design capabilities, and building… Read More
Webinar – Achieving Seamless 1.6 Tbps Interoperability with Samtec and Synopsys
It is well-known that AI is upending conventional wisdom for system design. Workload-specific processor configurations are growing at an exponential rate. Along with this is an exponential growth in data bandwidth needs, creating an urgency for 1.6T Ethernet. A recent SemiWiki webinar dove into these issues. Synopsys and … Read More
Podcast EP300: Next Generation Metalization Innovations with Lam’s Kaihan Ashtiani
Dan is joined by Kaihan Ashtiani, Corporate Vice President and General Manager of atomic layer deposition and chemical vapor deposition metals in Lam’s Deposition Business Unit. Kaihan has more than 30 years of experience in technical and management roles, working on a variety of semiconductor tools and processes.
Dan explores… Read More
Should Intel be Split in Half?