The global semiconductor market grew 4.2% in 2Q 2023 versus 1Q 2023, according to WSTS. The 2Q 2023 growth was the first positive quarter-to-quarter change since 4Q 2021, a year and a half ago. Versus a year ago, the market declined 17.3%, an improvement from a 21.3% year-to-year decline in 1Q 2023. Semiconductor market year-to-year… Read More
The Recovery has Started and it’s off to a Great Start!
August’s WSTS Blue Book showed Q2-2023 sales rebounding strongly, up 4.2 percent vs. Q1, heralding the end of the downturn and welcome news for the beleaguered chip industry.
The really good news, however, was that the downturn bottomed one quarter earlier than previously anticipated. This pull-forward only added a modest US$11… Read More
DVCon India 2023 | Keynote: “Journeying Beyond AI: Unleashing the Art of Verification”
DVCon India 2023 | Keynote: “Journeying Beyond AI: Unleashing the Art of Verification” by Sivakumar P R, Founder & CEO, Maven Silicon
Get Ready for an Epic Tech Odyssey with the keynote, ‘Journeying Beyond AI: Unleashing the Art of Verification’, by P. R. Sivakumar, Founder, and CEO, Maven Silicon.
The semiconductor industry… Read More
CEO Interview: Harry Peterson of Siloxit
Harry Peterson is a mixed-signal chip designer with a BS in Physics from Caltech. He managed IC design groups within Fairchild, Kodak, Philips, Northern Telecom, Toshiba and Pixelworks. During sabbaticals he helped fly experiments on NASA’s orbiting satellite observatory (OSO-8) and build telescopes in the Canary… Read More
Accellera and Clock Domain Crossing at #60DAC
Accellera sponsored a luncheon panel discussion at #60DAC, so I registered and attended to learn more about one of the newest working groups for Clock Domain Crossing (CDC). An overview of Accellera was provided by Lu Dai, then the panel discussion was moderated by Paul McLellan of Cadence, with the following panel members:
- Anupam
A Bold View of Future Product Development with Matt Genovese
Matt Genovese is the founder of Planorama Design, a software requirements and user experience design professional services company. The company designs simple and intuitive software and IoT product user interfaces for complex, technical applications and systems. Its unique and proven approach reduces client development… Read More
A Look at the Winners of the Silicon Catalyst/Arm Silicon Startups Contest
Silicon Catalyst is the world’s only incubator focused exclusively on semiconductor solutions. This unique position puts the organization in the center of many new technology innovations. Recently, a Semiconductor Startups Contest was announced in collaboration with Arm. You can learn more about the details of the… Read More
ASML Update SEMICON West 2023
At SEMICON West I had a chance to catch up with Mike Lercel of ASML. In this article I am going to combine ASML presentation material from the SPIE Advanced Lithography Conference, Mike’s SEMICON presentation, my discussions with Mike at SEMICON and a few items from ASML’s recent earnings call.
DUV
ASML continues to improve DUV systems.… Read More
Signal Integrity 101: Fundamentals for Professional Engineers
I have been watching Youtube since it began and have been amazed by it’s evolution. Literally everything is on Youtube now from sailing to home and auto repair, sewing and embroidery (wife), semiconductors, and now there is Youtube TV.
Signal Integrity has been a hot topic on SemiWiki since Samtec arrived in 2020. Samtec… Read More
Breker’s Maheen Hamid Believes Shared Vision Unifying Factor for Business Success
Maheen Hamid, a member of the ESD Alliance (a SEMI Technology Community) Governing Council and a member of SEMI’s North America Advisory Board, is an astute business executive. Together with her husband Adnan Hamid, they founded Breker Verification Systems, a company developing test synthesis solutions. She serves today … Read More


AI RTL Generation versus AI RTL Verification