Quantum algorithms must be simulated on classical computers to validate correct behavior, but this looks very different from classical logic simulation. Paul Cunningham (GM, Verification at Cadence), Raúl Camposano (Silicon Catalyst, entrepreneur, former Synopsys CTO and lecturer at Stanford, EE292A) and I continue our… Read More
Ceva IP: Powering the Era of Physical AIArtificial intelligence is rapidly moving beyond the digital…Read More
Accelerating Static ESD Simulation for Full-Chip and Multi-Die Designs with Synopsys PathFinder-SCAs analog and mixed-signal designs become increasingly complex,…Read More
A Century of Miracles: From the FET's Inception to the Horizons AheadThe Field-Effect Transistor (FET), a cornerstone of modern…Read More
Two Open RISC-V Projects Chart Divergent Paths to High PerformanceUp to now the RISC-V community has been…Read More
On the high-speed digital design frontier with Keysight’s Hee-Soo LeeHigh-speed digital (HSD) design is one of the…Read MoreKirin 9030 Hints at SMIC’s Possible Paths Toward >300 MTr/mm2 Without EUV
Earlier this month, TechInsights did a teardown of the Kirin 9030 chip found in Huawei’s Mate 80 Pro Max [1]. Two clear statements were made on the findings: (1) the transistor density of SMIC’s “N+3” process was definitely below that of the earlier 5nm processes from Samsung and TSMC, and (2) metal pitch was aggressively scaled
Podcast EP324: How Dassault Systèmes is Creating the Next Generation of Semiconductor Design and Manufacturing with John Maculley
Daniel is joined by John Maculley, Global High-Tech Industry Strategy Consultant at Dassault Systèmes. John has over 20 years of experience advancing innovation across the semiconductor and electronics sectors. Based in Silicon Valley, he works with leading foundries, OSATs, design houses, and research institutes worldwide… Read More
Why TSMC is Known as the Trusted Foundry
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) is widely regarded as the world’s most trusted semiconductor foundry, a reputation built over decades through technological leadership, business model discipline, operational excellence, and reliability. In an industry where trust is as critical as transistor density,… Read More
Journey Back to 1981: David Patterson Recounts the Birth of RISC and Its Legacy in RISC-V
In a warmly received keynote at the RISC-V Summit, computer architecture legend David Patterson took the audience on a captivating trip back to 1981, using scanned versions of his original overhead transparencies to recount the birth of Reduced Instruction Set Computing (RISC) at UC Berkeley.
Patterson began with humor, noting… Read More
Assertion-First Hardware Design and Formal Verification Services
Generative AI has transformed software development, enabling entire applications to be built in minutes. But despite similar progress in AI-generated RTL, hardware verification remains a major bottleneck. RTL can be produced quickly, yet proving its correctness is extraordinarily difficult. This has revived a long-standing… Read More
TSMC’s Customized Technical Documentation Platform Enhances Customer Experience
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, the world’s leading dedicated semiconductor foundry, has long prioritized customer-centric innovation to maintain its competitive edge in a rapidly evolving industry. TSMC is known as “The Trusted Foundry” for this reason.
Amid increasing complexity in… Read More
The 10 Practical Steps to Model and Design a Complex SoC: Insights from Aion Silicon
In the fast-evolving world of semiconductor design, creating a complex System-on-Chip (SoC) requires meticulous planning to ensure performance, power efficiency, and cost-effectiveness. Aion Silicon’s white paper, authored by Piyush Singh, outlines a streamlined methodology that leverages advanced modeling… Read More
PDF Solutions’ AI-Driven Collaboration & Smarter Decisions
When most people hear the term PDF, they immediately think of a PDF file, a universal, platform-independent way to share electronic documents.
There is, however, another PDF that many outside the semiconductor industry may not be familiar with. And this PDF actually predates the PDF file format. It is short for PDF Solutions, … Read More
Bringing Low-Frequency Noise into Focus
Key takeaways
- The challenge of acquiring high-quality, reproducible noise data becomes achievable with Primarius’ wafer-level low-frequency noise characterization solution, which is essential for advanced nodes.
- The Primarius 981X family raises the bar for low-frequency noise measurement metrology with its unique


A Century of Miracles: From the FET’s Inception to the Horizons Ahead