How much perfectly good silicon is being discarded in the quest for reliability? During high-volume chip manufacturing, aggressive testing with strict thresholds may ensure quality but reduces yield, discarding marginal chips that could function flawlessly. On the other hand, prioritizing yield risks allowing defective… Read More





Variable Cell Height Track Pitch Scaling Beyond Lithography
Two approaches compared
With half-pitch approaching 10 nm, EUV patterning is heavily impacted by stochastic effects, which are aggravated from reduced image contrast from electron blur [1]. A two-mask (“LELE”: Litho-Etch-Litho-Etch) approach was proposed to pattern core features for self-aligned double patterning (SADP)… Read More
2025 Outlook with James Cannings QPT Limited
Tell us a little bit about yourself and your company.
I’m James Cannings, the Executive Chairman of QPT. QPT is a power electronics start-up with a vision to reduce global electricity consumption by 5%, saving billions and moving the needle on the Net Zero challenge. Electric motors use up to 50% of the world’s electricity and our… Read More
Compute and Communications Perspectives on Automotive Trends
Automotive electronics is a fast-moving space, especially around sensing and distilling intelligence from that sensing. This serves three main pillars: autonomy, electrification and advances in the car cockpit. Autonomy at multiple levels remains an important goal and continues to advance, technically and geographically.… Read More
CEO Interview with Dr. Thang Tran of Simplex Micro
Dr. Thang Tran is an innovator in modern computing, drawing inspiration from pioneers like Seymour Cray, Thornton, and Tomasulo. His work leverages the simplicity of the RISC-V ISA to advance microprocessor efficiency, integrating vector processing and scoreboarding principles foundational to early supercomputing. Thang… Read More
Semidynamics adds NoC partner and ONNX for RISC-V AI applications
When Semidynamics added support for int4 and fp8 data types to their RISC-V processors, it clearly indicated their intent to target AI inference with hundreds or perhaps thousands of concurrent threads running in their advanced caching and pipelining scheme. Two recent announcements around Embedded World 2025 reinforce their… Read More
Intel has a new Billionaire CEO!
Great news last week as Intel fills the CEO slot for the 9th time in 56 years with industry legend Lip-Bu Tan. From what I hear, Intel employees, and the entire industry for that matter, are overjoyed. I’m sure there are one or two competing companies that are concerned but overall it is an absolute love fest.
If you look at education… Read More
How FD-SOI Powers the Future of AI in Automobiles
We are witnessing a significant revolution in automotive design. The software-defined vehicle is taking center stage as disruptive technologies are integrated into mass production. Areas such as autonomous driving, lighting, radar, and other camera-based sensors are all part of this revolution. AI is at the center of many… Read More
Video EP2: A Detailed Look at the Most Effective Way to Conquer Clock Jitter with Samia Rashid
In this episode of the Semiconductor Insiders video series, Dan is joined by Samia Rashid, co-founder and president of Infinisim. Samia provides detailed background on clock jitter – what it is, what causes it and the various methods to address the problem. Samia describes the unique clock analysis technology developed… Read More
Cutting Through the Fog: Hype versus Reality in Emerging Technologies
Silicon Catalyst is an organization that supports early-stage semiconductor startups with an ecosystem that provides tools and resources needed to design, create, and market semiconductor solutions. It is the only incubator + accelerator focused on the Global Semiconductor Industry and operates with the motto “It’s about… Read More
Rethinking Multipatterning for 2nm Node