Of course these are rolling forecasts which means they change every  month, until they get them right. The missing forecaster here is Mike  Cowen, developer of the Cowan LRA Model which forecasts global  semiconductor sales. Mike has 2011 at a hilarious 2.3%! Below are the  mid year market forecasts which were revised significantly… Read More 
AI-Driven DRC Productivity Optimization: Revolutionizing Semiconductor DesignThe semiconductor industry is undergoing a transformative shift…Read More
Emulator-Like Simulation Acceleration on GPUs. Innovation in VerificationGPUs have been proposed before to accelerate logic…Read More
Pioneering Edge AI: TekStart's Cognitum Processor Ushers in a New Era of Efficient IntelligenceOne of the more in interesting companies I…Read More
CAST Simplifies RISC-V Embedded Processor IP Adoption with New Catalyst ProgramIn a move poised to accelerate the integration…Read MoreMentor – Cadence Merger and the Federal Trade Commission
More consolidation is coming to EDA and so is the Federal Trade  Commission. Corporate raider Carl Ichan owns 15% of Mentor Graphics and  now owns 1% of Cadence. Ichan buddy multi billionaire George Soros, a  long time CDNS investor, just purchased more than 76 million convertible notes of MENT.You do the math…
Unfortunately the FTC… Read More
Webinar on Accelerating Analog Layout Productivity
MONROVIA, California – December 7, 2010 – With pressure to reduce time to market and with resources increasingly constrained, tools that can enable maximum productivity for analog and mixed-signal design are mission-critical. Tanner EDA, the catalyst for innovation for the design, layout and verification of analog and mixed-signal… Read More
TSMC vs GlobalFoundries IBM Samsung
GlobalFoundries has brought the Common Platform Alliance back from  the dead!?!?!?! Good thing too as it is probably their most  comprehensive weapon against TSMC and answers the single biggest  question customers have at 28nm and that is; Will there be enough CAPACITY?
The Common Platform technology alliance hosted its first-ever… Read More
Intel versus ARM (Linaro)
More than 2,500 companies will be exhibiting and more than 120,000 people will be attending the next Consumer Electronics Show(CES) and it is an easy bet that ARM processors will dominate the show yet again. In fact, my money is on ARM to dominate future generations of computing platforms (smartphones) due in large part to one simple… Read More
Tanner EDA Then and Now
Looking back at an early issue of a Tanner Research newsletter, “Tanner Tools News”, from the mid-1990s, the theme at that time was growth, just as it is again now for Tanner EDA. At that time we were averaging 66% revenue growth per year, enjoying rapid growth as a small start-up. Fast-forward to current day, where we… Read More 
Mentor Acquires Magma?
**This blog was written a year ago. Several people emailed me last week saying Mentor is trying for Magma again so I thought I would run it again to see what we can find out!D.A.N. 11/21/2011
“I believe that within five years only two EDA companies will survive,” said Magma Design Automation Rajeev Madhavan (Silicom Ventures LLC international… Read More
Russian Silicon Valley
In case you missed it, last June Dmitry Medvedev (the 3[SUP]rd[/SUP] President of Russia) visited Northern California to better understand and hopefully replicate the success of Silicon Valley in Russia. Last month Governor Schwarzenegger returned the favor by visiting Moscow with a delegate of Silicon Valley business leaders… Read More
TSMC Versus Intel?
The big announcement last week was Intel opening up its 22nm  manufacturing facilities to an outside company. Even better it’s an FPGA  company. There are literally hundreds of write ups on this landmark  event so it is definitely blog worthy. But what does it really mean? I  have read (5) possibilities:
(1) Intel enters the FPGA business… Read More
Computational Lithography, Scaling’s Best Friend
By Joseph Sawicki, Vice President & General Manager, Design to Silicon Division
It is one of the more amazing stories in the continued march of Moore’s Law over the past four nodes. Previously scaling was enabled solely though changes in the physical domain, whether through decreasing the wavelength of light, increasing … Read More 



			
			
			
			
			
			
			
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