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Semiconductor CapEx Down in 2024, Up Strongly in 2025

Semiconductor CapEx Down in 2024, Up Strongly in 2025
by Bill Jewell on 07-31-2024 at 4:00 pm

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The U.S. CHIPS and Science Act provides incentives for semiconductor manufacturing in the United States. As of July 30, 2024, The CHIPS Program Office has announced over $30 billion in grants and over $25 billion in loans, according to the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA). The awards have been given to fourteen companies;… Read More


Defacto Technologies and ARM, Joint SoC Flow at #61DAC

Defacto Technologies and ARM, Joint SoC Flow at #61DAC
by Daniel Payne on 07-31-2024 at 10:00 am

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At #61DAC I stopped by the Defacto Technologies exhibit and talked with Chouki Aktouf, President and CEO, to find out what’s new in 2024. ARM and Defacto have a joint SoC design flow by using the Arm IP Explorer tool along with Defacto’s SoC compiler, which helps to quickly create your top-level RTL, IP-XACT and UPF files. This tool… Read More


Theorem Proving for Multipliers. Innovation in Verification

Theorem Proving for Multipliers. Innovation in Verification
by Bernard Murphy on 07-31-2024 at 6:00 am

Innovation New

An explosion in multiplier types/combinations lacking well-established C reference models for equivalence checking is prompting a closer look at theorem proving methods for verification. Paul Cunningham (GM, Verification at Cadence), Raúl Camposano (Silicon Catalyst, entrepreneur, former Synopsys CTO and now Silvaco… Read More


TSMC’s Business Update and Launch of a New Strategy

TSMC’s Business Update and Launch of a New Strategy
by Claus Aasholm on 07-30-2024 at 10:00 am

TSMC Fab Utilization 2024

What looks like a modest market expansion strategy is all but modest.

Insights into the Semiconductor Industry and the Semiconductor Supply Chain.

As usual, when TSMC reports, the Semiconductor industry gets a spray of insights that help understand what goes on in other areas of the industry. This time, TSMC gave more insight … Read More


CAST, a Small Company with a Large Impact on Many Growth Markets #61DAC

CAST, a Small Company with a Large Impact on Many Growth Markets #61DAC
by Mike Gianfagna on 07-30-2024 at 6:00 am

DAC Roundup – CAST, a Small Company with a Large Impact on Many Growth Markets

Semiconductor IP has continued to grow as a market, and it was clearly a star performer at #61DAC.  We all know the large suppliers of IP for semiconductors, but the market is actually quite diverse, with many players supporting many applications.  I had a chance to meet with two executives from CAST, a company with a remarkably … Read More


AMIQ EDA Integrated Development Environment #61DAC

AMIQ EDA Integrated Development Environment #61DAC
by Daniel Payne on 07-29-2024 at 10:00 am

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I stopped by the AMIQ EDA booth at DAC to get an update from Tom Anderson about their Integrated Development Environment (IDE), aimed at helping design and verification engineers save time. In my early IC design days we used either vi or emacs and were happy with having a somewhat smart text editor. With an IDE you get a whole new way … Read More


Alphawave Semi Tapes Out Industry-First, Multi-Protocol I/O Connectivity Chiplet for HPC and AI Infrastructure

Alphawave Semi Tapes Out Industry-First, Multi-Protocol I/O Connectivity Chiplet for HPC and AI Infrastructure
by Kalar Rajendiran on 07-29-2024 at 6:00 am

Industry First, Multi Protocol IO Connectivity Chiplet

In the rapidly evolving landscape of high-performance computing (HPC) and artificial intelligence (AI), the demand for increased processing power, efficiency, and scalability is ever-growing. Traditional monolithic chip designs are increasingly unable to keep pace with these demands, leading to the emergence of chiplets… Read More


Podcast EP237: The Expanded Use of Functional Test Patterns for Manufacturing with Robert Ruiz

Podcast EP237: The Expanded Use of Functional Test Patterns for Manufacturing with Robert Ruiz
by Daniel Nenni on 07-26-2024 at 10:00 am

Dan is joined by Robert Ruiz, a product management director responsible for strategy and business growth of several verification products at Synopsys. Robert has held various marketing and technical positions for leading functional verification and test automation products at various companies including Synopsys, Novas… Read More


CEO Interview: Dr. Babak Taheri of Silvaco

CEO Interview: Dr. Babak Taheri of Silvaco
by Daniel Nenni on 07-26-2024 at 6:00 am

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Babak A. Taheri, Ph.D., has served as Chief Executive Officer and member of the Silvaco board of directors from August 2019 to September 2021 and from November 2021 to present. From October 2018 to August 2019, Dr. Taheri served as our Chief Technology Officer and Executive Vice President of Products.

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Empowering AI, Hyperscale and Data Center Connectivity with PAM4 SerDes Technology

Empowering AI, Hyperscale and Data Center Connectivity with PAM4 SerDes Technology
by Kalar Rajendiran on 07-25-2024 at 10:00 am

High Speed PAM4 SerDes Use Scenarios

The rapid expansion of data-intensive applications, such as artificial intelligence (AI), high-performance computing (HPC), and 5G, necessitates connectivity solutions capable of handling massive amounts of data with high efficiency and reliability. The advent of 224G/112G Serializer/Deserializer (SerDes) technology,… Read More