Unlike the last CES, this year I saw compelling technology, technology that will definitely drive the semiconductor industry and make the analyst fortunetellers look bad yet again. Anyone who thinks semiconductor growth next year will be in single digits is absolutely wrong, TSMC will grow even more, 20%+. First and foremost… Read More
Siemens EDA Expands AI and Advanced Packaging Collaboration with TSMCAt the recent TSMC Technology Symposium 2026, Siemens…Read More
PQShield unveils ultra-small PQC embedded security breakthroughs at Embedded World 2026As the threat of quantum computing to modern…Read More
Closing the Silicon Realization Gap: From Static DFM to Governance for Lifecycle (GFL)The semiconductor industry has achieved extraordinary mastery in…Read More
imec IC-Link and TSMC 3DFabric Alliance Expansion Signals New Era of System-Level Scalingimec announced that IC-Link by imec has joined…Read More
From the Selfie to Samantha: The Next Trillion-Dollar BehaviorAt CES 2026, Samsung called it a “companion.”…Read MoreEDA360 in PC Today
At the EDAC CEO panel, Daniel pointed out that he used EDA360 as a good introduction to non-specialists (e.g. financial sector). I just discovered today that the cover article of PC Today is by John Bruggeman (well, Cadence) about EDA360. Having some idea of just how difficult it is to get that sort of specialist article into a general… Read More
EDA / IP Business Model Debate
First, lets review the business model transitions EDA has seen. We started with perpetual licensing which is a software license for the life of the product. EDA companies did their best to change product names to get incremental revenue above and beyond the yearly 15% maintenance fee but that is a dead end business model for a confined… Read More
IP-SoC trip report (part I): how analyst sees the future of IP (and forecast the past)
I will share with you the most interesting I have heard during IP-SoC 2010, last December in Grenoble. Today, let’s summarize what I heard about the future of the IP business. The presentation was done by Gartner, in the “Auditorium” (largest room). It first started with the results for 2010, and I took some notes, as you can see the… Read More
Variation-aware Design Survey
Solidohas run an interesting survey on variation-aware design. The data is generic and not specific to Solido’s products although you won’t be surprised to know that they have tools in this area.
What is variation-aware design? Semiconductor manufacturing is a statistical process and there are two ways to handle this in the design… Read More
Magma’s new version of Talus and updating infrastructure
One of the important but often unrecognized aspects of engineering is re-building the infrastructure underneath key design tools. Sometimes this gives a new desirable capability but often a lot of the effort is simply to modernize the code base so that it is possible to continue development effectively going forward. For example,… Read More
The Ultimate SPICE Circuit Simulator
I love SPICE and Fast SPICE circuit simulators, so here’s my feature list for the ultimate SPICE circuit simulator:
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SemiWiki vBlog Test
The Future of Semiconductor Design!
Is EDA still an appropriate term for what we do? What applications will drive future semiconductor design innovation? Will further consolidation be required for EDA to thrive again? They are all good questions, questions that will hopefully be properly addressed at the EDAC CEO Forecast and Industry Vision event next week but… Read More
Semiconductor and EDA Forecasts 2011 / 2012
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


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