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CEO Interview: Dr Josep Montanyà of Nanusens

CEO Interview: Dr Josep Montanyà of Nanusens
by Daniel Nenni on 12-31-2024 at 6:00 am

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Dr. Josep Montanyà Chief Executive Officer – UK/Spain Co-founder leading the company, with +18 years of experience in MEMS, patents and the semiconductor industry. Founded Baolab Microsystems prior to Nanusens.

Tell us a little bit about your company?

We have a patented technology that allows us to build chips with nano-mechanisms… Read More


Accelerating Simulation. Innovation in Verification

Accelerating Simulation. Innovation in Verification
by Bernard Murphy on 12-30-2024 at 6:00 am

Innovation New

Following a similar topic we covered early last year, here we look at updated research to accelerating RTL simulation through domain-specific hardware. 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


Podcast EP268: A Decade in the Chinese Semiconductor Industry: An American’s Story

Podcast EP268: A Decade in the Chinese Semiconductor Industry: An American’s Story
by Daniel Nenni on 12-27-2024 at 10:00 am

Dan is joined Dr. Douglas Sparks, CEO of M2N Technologies LLC, a consulting firm specializing in semiconductors, MEMS and sensors, including their supply chains. He has just published a new book, A Decade in the Chinese Semiconductor Industry: An American’s Story. Doug was the CTO of Hanking Electronics which built a high-volume… Read More


The Intel Common Platform Foundry Alliance

The Intel Common Platform Foundry Alliance
by Daniel Nenni on 12-27-2024 at 6:00 am

Common Platform Alliance

When I do a root cause analysis of Intel’s problem it is very simple. If Intel wants to continue to be a leading-edge semiconductor manufacturer, they need to fill their fabs, all of their fabs. Clearly several things need to happen in order to do that but the one that most interests me is on the foundry side.

I think we can all agree that… Read More


CEO Interview: Marc Engel of Agileo Automation

CEO Interview: Marc Engel of Agileo Automation
by Daniel Nenni on 12-26-2024 at 10:00 am

Marc Engel CEO Agileo Automation

Marc Engel has served as the CEO of Agileo Automation for the past 15 years. Agileo specializes in software solutions for controlling semiconductor production equipment and connecting tools to MES systems using SECS/GEM and OPC-UA standards. Marc started his extensive 25-year engineering career in software development on… Read More


CEO Interview with Dr. Dennis Michaelis of GEMESYS

CEO Interview with Dr. Dennis Michaelis of GEMESYS
by Daniel Nenni on 12-26-2024 at 6:00 am

Dr. Dennis Michaelis, CEO of GEMESYS

Dr. Dennis Michaelis is the founder and CEO of the AI chip start-up. With a Ph.D. in Bio-Inspired Computing at the Purdue University in Indiana and a background in electrical engineering, he brings a unique blend of technical expertise and social commitment to the company. His previous role as Regional Director for Anonymous for… Read More


What would you do if you were the CEO of Intel?

What would you do if you were the CEO of Intel?
by Daniel Nenni on 12-24-2024 at 10:00 am

Intel BSPD Power Via

One of the most enduring threads in the SemiWiki forum is What would you do if you are the Intel CEO? There are currently 128 responses and more than 45,000 views. It was originally posted March 13th, 2015, after Brain Krzanich was given the CEO position. A different time for sure but an interesting read and the responses keep on coming.… Read More


Stochastic Pupil Fill in EUV Lithography

Stochastic Pupil Fill in EUV Lithography
by Fred Chen on 12-24-2024 at 6:00 am

Exposing EUV

Pupil fill tradeoff again

EUV lithography continues to be plagued by its stochastic nature.

This stochastic nature is most clearly portrayed by the random fluctuation of the absorbed photon number at a given location. For example, consider an absorbed dose of 10 mJ/cm2 amounts to 6.8 photons of energy 92 eV absorbed in a square … Read More


Consumer memory slowing more than AI gaining

Consumer memory slowing more than AI gaining
by Robert Maire on 12-23-2024 at 10:00 am

Micron Idaho Fabs
  • Consumer memory slowing more than AI gaining causing weakness
  • HBM sold out for 2025- HBM is most of Capex- NAND near zero
  • Big miss on Q1 guide crushes stock on disappointment
  • Positive for Nvidia- Negative for Broadcom/Qualcomm
Micron – AI is wonderful & growing out of bounds while consumer sucks

Micron reported in line… Read More


Intel Presents the Final Frontier of Transistor Architecture at IEDM

Intel Presents the Final Frontier of Transistor Architecture at IEDM
by Mike Gianfagna on 12-23-2024 at 6:00 am

Intel Presents the Final Frontier of Transistor Architecture at IEDM

IEDM was buzzing with many presentations about the newest gate-all-around transistor. Both Intel and TSMC announced processes based on nanosheet technology. This significant process innovation allows the fabrication of silicon RibbonFET CMOS devices, which promise to open a new era of transistor scaling, keeping Moore’s… Read More