The semiconductor industry has seen a significant shift towards vertical integration of products, expanding from chips to generalized or purpose-built integrated solutions. As software becomes an increasingly critical component of these solutions, leveraging modern software development processes with User Experience… Read More


WEBINAR: Design Cost Reduction – How to track and predict server resources for complex chip design project?
During the design of complex chips, cost reduction is becoming a real challenge for small, medium and large companies. Resource management is a key to contain design cost.
The chip design market is expecting automated solutions to help in the resource prediction, planning and analysis. AI-based technologies are promising … Read More
Podcast EP152: An Informal Conversation with Aart de Geus on AI and Multi-Die at SNUG
This is a special edition of our podcast series. At the recent Synopsys SNUG User Group, SemiWiki staff writer Kalar Rajendiran got the opportunity to conduct an informal interview with Aart de Geus, Chairman and CEO of Synopsys.
What follows are some of Aart’s thoughts on the deployment of AI across the semiconductor … Read More
Multiphysics Analysis from Chip to System
Multiphysics simulation is the process of computational methods to model and analyze a system to understand its response to different physical interactions like heat transfer, electromagnetic fields, and mechanical structures. Using this technique, designers can generate physics-based models and analyze the behavior… Read More
Feeding the Growing Hunger for Bandwidth with High-Speed Ethernet
The increasing demands for massive amounts of data are driving high-performance computing (HPC) to advance the pace in the High-speed Ethernet world. This in turn, is increasing the levels of complexity when designing networking SoCs like switches, retimers, and pluggable modules. This growth is accelerating the need for … Read More
Podcast EP151: How Pulsic Automates Analog Layout for Free with Mark Williams
Dan is joined by Mark Williams. Mark is a Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Pulsic. He has over 30 years of experience in the EDA industry and was one of the team that pioneered shape-based routing technology in the 1980s while working at Zuken-Redac.
Mark explains the unique “freemium” model for automating analog… Read More
Takeaways from SNUG 2023
Synopsys pulled out all the stops for this event. I attended the first full day, tightly scripted from Aart’s keynote kick off to 1×1 interviews with Synopsys executives to a fireside chat between Sassine Ghazi (President and COO) and Rob Aitken (ex-Fellow at Arm, now Distinguished Architect at Synopsys). That’s a lot of … Read More
TSMC has spent a lot more money on 300mm than you think
Up until November of 2022, IC Knowledge LLC was an independent company and had become the world leader in cost and price modeling of semiconductors. In November 2022 TechInsights acquired IC Knowledge LLC and IC Knowledge LLC is now a TechInsights company.
For many years, IC Knowledge has published a database tracking all the 300mm… Read More
Interconnect Under the Spotlight as Core Counts Accelerate
In the march to more capable, faster, smaller, and lower power systems, Moore’s Law gave software a free ride for over 30 years or so purely on semiconductor process evolution. Compute hardware delivered improved performance/area/power metrics every year, allowing software to expand in complexity and deliver more capability… Read More
AI is Ushering in a New Wave of Innovation
Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming many aspects of our lives, from the way we work and communicate to the way we shop and travel. Its impact is felt in nearly every industry, including the semiconductor industry, which plays a crucial role in enabling the development of AI technology.
One of the ways AI is affecting our… Read More
Intel’s Pearl Harbor Moment