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How Synopsys Enables Gen AI on the Edge

How Synopsys Enables Gen AI on the Edge
by Mike Gianfagna on 02-24-2025 at 10:00 am

How Synopsys Enables Gen AI on the Edge

Artificial intelligence and machine learning have undergone incredible changes over the past decade or so. We’ve witnessed the rise of convolutional neural networks and recurrent neural networks. More recently, the rise of generative AI and transformers. At every step, accuracy has been improved as depicted in the graphic… Read More


Harnessing Modular Vector Processing for Scalable, Power-Efficient AI Acceleration

Harnessing Modular Vector Processing for Scalable, Power-Efficient AI Acceleration
by Jonah McLeod on 02-24-2025 at 6:00 am

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The dominance of GPUs in AI workloads has long been driven by their ability to handle massive parallelism, but this advantage comes at the cost of high-power consumption and architectural rigidity. A new approach, leveraging a chiplet-based RISC-V vector processor, offers an alternative that balances performance, efficiency,… Read More


Rethinking Multipatterning for 2nm Node

Rethinking Multipatterning for 2nm Node
by Fred Chen on 02-23-2025 at 10:00 am

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Whether EUV or DUV doesn’t matter at 20 nm pitch
The International Roadmap for Devices and Systems, 2022 Edition, indicates that the “2nm” node due in 2025 (this year) has a minimum (metal) half-pitch of 10 nm [1]. This is, in fact, less than the resolution of a current state-of-the-art EUV system, with a numerical aperture… Read More


CHIPS Act dies because employees are fired – NIST CHIPS people are probationary

CHIPS Act dies because employees are fired – NIST CHIPS people are probationary
by Robert Maire on 02-23-2025 at 6:00 am

Donald Trump CHIPs Act Cancelled

– NIST to lose 100’s of mainly CHIPS Act people
– If no people are left to administer CHIPS Act it dies by default
– Following USAID play book to kill an unwanted program
– Using the “probationary” clause as excuse to fire recent CHIPS hires

Trump will kill CHIPS Act by gutting NIST employees
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Podcast EP275: How NXP Semiconductors is Helping the Automotive Ecosystem to Move Forward with Sebastien Clamagirand

Podcast EP275: How NXP Semiconductors is Helping the Automotive Ecosystem to Move Forward with Sebastien Clamagirand
by Daniel Nenni on 02-21-2025 at 10:00 am

Dan is joined by Sebastien Clamagirand, Global Senior Vice President of Automotive System Engineering and Marketing at NXP Semiconductors. Sebastien focuses on system solutions for vehicle architectures that support the shift to software-defined vehicles. Under his leadership, NXP delivers pre-integrated, scalable … Read More


CEO Interview with Dr. William Wang of Alpha Design AI

CEO Interview with Dr. William Wang of Alpha Design AI
by Daniel Nenni on 02-21-2025 at 6:00 am

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William Wang is the CEO and founder of Alpha Design AI, a generative AI startup transforming chip design and verification through ChipAgents, an agentic AI development tool for RTL and verification engineers. ChipAgents accelerates design, debugging, and verification of hardware description languages (HDL), integrating… Read More


2025 Outlook with Sri Lakshmi Simhadri of MosChip

2025 Outlook with Sri Lakshmi Simhadri of MosChip
by Daniel Nenni on 02-20-2025 at 10:00 am

Srilakshmi Simhadri VP Semicon BU Head MosChip®

Tell us a little bit about yourself and your company. 

I am Sri Lakshmi Simhadri, and I head Semiconductor BU at MosChip® Technologies, responsible for Semiconductor Design Services. I have 30+ years of Semiconductor Industry experience. Held leadership and project management roles with multi-national companies like Cyient… Read More


Soitec: Materializing Future Innovations in Semiconductors

Soitec: Materializing Future Innovations in Semiconductors
by Kalar Rajendiran on 02-20-2025 at 6:00 am

ESG in the DNA of Soitec

The semiconductor industry continues to evolve rapidly to meet the escalating demands for speed, power efficiency, and miniaturization. As traditional silicon-based technologies reach their physical and performance limits, engineered substrates and advanced material innovation have emerged as pivotal drivers of the… Read More


Weak Semiconductor Start to 2025

Weak Semiconductor Start to 2025
by Bill Jewell on 02-19-2025 at 6:00 pm

Semiconductor Market Change 2025

WSTS reported the global semiconductor market in 4th quarter 2024 was $170.9 billion, up 17% from a year earlier and up 3% from 3rd quarter 2024. The full year 2024 market was $628 billion, up 19.1% from 2023.

We at Semiconductor Intelligence give a virtual award for the most accurate semiconductor market forecast for the year. The… Read More


Webinar: RF design success hinges on enhanced models and accurate simulation

Webinar: RF design success hinges on enhanced models and accurate simulation
by Don Dingee on 02-19-2025 at 10:00 am

Modelithics 3D Library for RFPro increases the chances for RF design success

Traditional RF board design strategies based on circuit simulation worked at lower frequencies and relatively large spacing between components. Higher frequencies and densification dominate RF designs now, where corresponding wider bandwidths and tighter layouts with closely spaced components produce more complex 3D… Read More