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2024 Semiconductor Cycle Outlook – The Shape of Things to Come – Where we Stand

2024 Semiconductor Cycle Outlook – The Shape of Things to Come – Where we Stand
by Robert Maire on 01-24-2024 at 6:00 am

Semiconductor Industry Outlook 2024
  • What kind of recovery do we expect, if any, after 2 down years?
  • What impact will China have on the recovery of mature market chips?
  • What will memory recovery look like? Will we return to stupid spend?
  • Stock selection ever more critical in tepid recovery
Chip stocks have rocketed but the industry itself, not so much, “Anticipation….is
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2024 Outlook with John O’Donnel of yieldHUB

2024 Outlook with John O’Donnel of yieldHUB
by Daniel Nenni on 01-23-2024 at 10:00 am

yieldHUB Team

yieldHUB is a SaaS company that provides yield management and comprehensive data analysis for semiconductor (IDMs and fabless) companies around the world. SemiWiki has been working with yieldHUB for the past three years doing blogs, webinars, and podcasts with great success. John O’Donnel spent 18 years at Analog Devices… Read More


Blending Finite Element Methods and ML

Blending Finite Element Methods and ML
by Bernard Murphy on 01-23-2024 at 6:00 am

FEM mesh min

Finite element methods for analysis crop up in many domains in electronic system design: mechanical stress analysis in multi-die systems, thermal analysis as a counterpart to both cooling and stress analysis (eg warping) and electromagnetic compliance analysis. (Computational fluid dynamics – CFD – is a different beast which… Read More


Chiplet Summit 2024 Preview

Chiplet Summit 2024 Preview
by Daniel Nenni on 01-22-2024 at 10:00 am

Chiplet Summit 2024 Logo

The second annual Chiplet Summit is coming up and if it is anything like the first one it will not disappoint. Chiplets are a disruptive semiconductor technology that are already being used by the top semiconductor companies like Intel, Nvidia, AMD and others. These companies design their own chiplets so they are blazing the trail… Read More


Luc Burgun: EDA CEO, Now French Startup Investor

Luc Burgun: EDA CEO, Now French Startup Investor
by Lauro Rizzatti on 01-22-2024 at 6:00 am

Luc Burgun

When we last saw Luc Burgun’s name in the semiconductor industry, he was CEO and co-founder of EVE (Emulation and Verification Engineering), creator of the ZeBu (Zero Bugs) hardware emulator. EVE was acquired by Synopsys in 2012.

After the acquisition, Luc moved out of EDA and became an investor. Join me as I catch up with Luc and … Read More


Podcast EP204: A Broad View of Design Architectures and the Role of the NoC with Arteris’ Michal Siwinski

Podcast EP204: A Broad View of Design Architectures and the Role of the NoC with Arteris’ Michal Siwinski
by Daniel Nenni on 01-19-2024 at 10:00 am

Dan is joined by Michal Siwinski, Chief Marketing Officer at Arteris. He brings more than two decades of technology-based strategy, marketing and growth acceleration. Prior to joining Arteris, he served as Corporate Vice President of Marketing and Business Development at Cadence, and through his leadership, the company’s… Read More


2024 Outlook with Chris Morrison of Agile Analog

2024 Outlook with Chris Morrison of Agile Analog
by Daniel Nenni on 01-19-2024 at 6:00 am

Agile Analog image

Agile Analog focuses on providing analog and mixed-signal IP (Intellectual Property) solutions for the semiconductor industry. They specialize in developing analog and mixed-signal designs that can be integrated into various electronic devices and systems.  Composa™ is their unique technology that automatically generates… Read More


Non-EUV Exposures in EUV Lithography Systems Provide the Floor for Stochastic Defects in EUV Lithography

Non-EUV Exposures in EUV Lithography Systems Provide the Floor for Stochastic Defects in EUV Lithography
by Fred Chen on 01-18-2024 at 10:00 am

Defocus flare (small)

EUV lithography is a complicated process with many factors affecting the production of the final image. The EUV light itself doesn’t directly generate the images, but acts through secondary electrons which are released as a result of ionization by incoming EUV photons. Consequently, we need to be aware of the fluctuations… Read More


Transformative Year for Sondrel

Transformative Year for Sondrel
by Daniel Nenni on 01-18-2024 at 6:00 am

Happy,New,Year,2023,,Keep,Fighting,Together,,Silhouette,Of,2023

This is our third year working with Sondrel and it has been a great experience. I have always been fascinated with the ASIC business and put a full chapter about it in our first book “Fabless: The Transformation of the Semiconductor industry.” Companies like Sondrel enabled our move to the fabless model and now they … Read More


Mastering Mixed-Signal Verification with Siemens Symphony Platform

Mastering Mixed-Signal Verification with Siemens Symphony Platform
by Daniel Payne on 01-17-2024 at 10:00 am

verification platform min

Digital design and verification is well understood by EDA vendors and IC designers, however mixed-signal design and verification is more challenging, because the continuous nature of analog signals requires more compute resources and specialized design skills. Siemens EDA has a unique offering in what they call SymphonyRead More