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CES is Back, but is the Market?

CES is Back, but is the Market?
by Bill Jewell on 01-11-2023 at 6:00 am

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CES 2023, the annual consumer technology show, was held last week in Las Vegas, Nevada. Over 115,000 people attended and over 3200 companies exhibited. As shown below, attendance and exhibitors were up about 2 ½ times the pandemic limited CES 2022. However, attendance was down one-third and exhibitors were down 27% from CES 2020.… Read More


2022 Phil Kaufman Award Ceremony and Banquet Honoring Dr. Giovanni De Micheli

2022 Phil Kaufman Award Ceremony and Banquet Honoring Dr. Giovanni De Micheli
by Daniel Nenni on 01-10-2023 at 8:00 am

2022 Giovanni De Micheli

One of the first events on the 2023 EDA calendar is the Phil Kaufman Award ceremony and banquet honoring the 2022 recipient Dr. Giovanni De Micheli. The event, hosted by the Electronic System Design Alliance (ESD Alliance) and the IEEE Council on Electronic Design Automation (CEDA), will be held Thursday, February 23, starting… Read More


Samsung Ugly as Expected Profits off 69% Winning a Game of CAPEX Chicken

Samsung Ugly as Expected Profits off 69% Winning a Game of CAPEX Chicken
by Robert Maire on 01-09-2023 at 6:00 am

Samsung 2022

-Samsung off the same chip cliff as Micron- “No skid marks”
-Samsung may be winning at a game of “Capex Chicken”
-No expectation of recovery any time soon – Consumers weak
-2023 a write off- Recovery will be delayed if spending isn’t

Samsungs worst quarter in 8 years no surprise

Samsung pre… Read More


CEO Interview: Dr. Chris Eliasmith and Peter Suma, of Applied Brain Research Inc.

CEO Interview: Dr. Chris Eliasmith and Peter Suma, of Applied Brain Research Inc.
by Daniel Nenni on 01-06-2023 at 6:00 am

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Professor Chris Eliasmith (right side) is co-CEO and President of Applied Brain Research Inc. Chris is also the co-inventor of the Neural Engineering Framework (NEF), the Nengo neural development environment, and the Semantic Pointer Architecture, all of which are dedicated to leveraging our understanding of the brain to … Read More


IEDM 2022 – TSMC 3nm

IEDM 2022 – TSMC 3nm
by Scotten Jones on 01-02-2023 at 6:00 am

TSMC CPP

TSMC presented two papers on 3nm at the 2022 IEDM; “Critical Process features Enabling Aggressive Contacted Gate Pitch Scaling for 3nm CMOS Technology and Beyond” and “A 3nm CMOS FinFlexTM Platform Technology with Enhanced Power Efficiency and Performance for Mobile SOC and High Performance Computing Applications”.

When … Read More


Micron Ugly Free Fall Continues as Downcycle Shapes Come into Focus

Micron Ugly Free Fall Continues as Downcycle Shapes Come into Focus
by Robert Maire on 12-26-2022 at 6:00 am

Micron Crashing 2022

-Micron off the proverbial cliff and falling faster
-Looking at a much longer/deeper decline in memory
-Layoffs, capex cuts, slowdowns- battening down the hatches
-Micron seems to imply more of a “U” or “L” shaped downcycle

Micron’s numbers as bad as we expected And much worse than most on the

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A Five-Year Formal Celebration at Axiomise

A Five-Year Formal Celebration at Axiomise
by Daniel Nenni on 12-23-2022 at 6:00 am

DAC 2022 Axiomise

It’s been a bit more than a year since I interviewed Dr. Ashish Darbari, founder and CEO of Axiomise. I’ve been keeping an eye on Ashish and his colleagues, and I was surprised to learn that they recently celebrated their fifth anniversary as a company. I thought that this would be a good time to catch up with him to find out what’s happened… Read More


VeriSilicon’s VeriHealth Chip Design Platform for Smart Healthcare Applications

VeriSilicon’s VeriHealth Chip Design Platform for Smart Healthcare Applications
by Kalar Rajendiran on 12-13-2022 at 10:00 am

VeriHealth Showing Fall Detection

The wearables electronics market is a large and fast growing one. According to Precedence Research, the global wearable technology market is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 13.89% during the forecast period 2022 to 2030. Precedence estimated the global wearable technology market size at USD 121.7 billion… Read More


Webinar: Flexible, Scalable Interconnect for AI HW System Architectures

Webinar: Flexible, Scalable Interconnect for AI HW System Architectures
by Mike Gianfagna on 12-09-2022 at 6:00 am

Webinar Flexible Scalable Interconnect for AI HW System Architectures

Building next generation systems is a real balancing act. The high-performance computing demands presented by increasing AI an ML content in systems means there are increasing challenges for power consumption, thermal load, and the never-ending appetite for faster data communications.  Power, performance, and cooling … Read More


IEDM 2022 – Ann Kelleher of Intel – Plenary Talk

IEDM 2022 – Ann Kelleher of Intel – Plenary Talk
by Scotten Jones on 12-06-2022 at 10:00 am

Ann 2022 IEDM Plenary Dec. 5 Roadmap Slide

Ann Kelleher is Intel’s Executive Vice President, General Manager, Technology Development, and she gave the first plenary talk to kick off the 2022 IEDM, “Celebrating 75 Years of the Transistor A Look at the Evolution of Moore’s Law Innovation”. I am generally not a fan of plenary talks because I think they are often too broad and… Read More