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Is Intel cornering the market in ASML High NA tools? Not repeating EUV mistake

Is Intel cornering the market in ASML High NA tools? Not repeating EUV mistake
by Robert Maire on 12-24-2023 at 9:00 am

High NA EUV
  • Reports suggest Intel will get 6 of 10 ASML High NA tools in 2024
  • Would give Intel a huge head start over TSMC & Samsung
  • A big gamble but a potentially huge pay off
  • Does this mean $4B in High NA tool sales for ASML in 2024?

News suggests Intel will get 6 of first 10 High NA tools made by ASML in 2024

An industry news source, Trendforce, reports… Read More


Podcast EP199: How Rambus is Helping to Counter the Security Threats of Quantum Computing with Scott Best

Podcast EP199: How Rambus is Helping to Counter the Security Threats of Quantum Computing with Scott Best
by Daniel Nenni on 12-22-2023 at 10:00 am

Dan is joined by Scott Best, technical director at Rambus. His research areas are memory architectures, 3D packaging, and security processors. Scott joined Rambus in 1998 and has served in many and varied technical roles. He has become one of the most prolific inventors in the company’s history. Over the course of his career at … Read More


Giving Back – The Story of One Silicon Valley Veteran’s Journey

Giving Back – The Story of One Silicon Valley Veteran’s Journey
by Mike Gianfagna on 12-22-2023 at 6:00 am

Giving Back – The Story of One Silicon Valley Veteran’s Journey

The concept of giving back is something many of us have contemplated. Giving back to the community or to support a particular cause. How to respond to those inquiries from our alma mater is another example. These conversations typically focus on giving money to provide needed support. As engineers, we are surrounded by a massive… Read More


Agile Analog Partners with sureCore for Quantum Computing

Agile Analog Partners with sureCore for Quantum Computing
by Daniel Nenni on 12-21-2023 at 10:00 am

Agile Analog sureCore project PR image

Quantum computing is the next big thing for the computing world. The semiconductor industry has been talking about it for years. It’s shiny, mysterious, and capable of some incredible things. Instead of using classical bits to represent information (which can be either a 0 or a 1), quantum computers use quantum bits or qubitsRead More


Seven Silicon Catalyst Companies to Exhibit at CES, the Most Powerful Tech Event in the World

Seven Silicon Catalyst Companies to Exhibit at CES, the Most Powerful Tech Event in the World
by Mike Gianfagna on 12-21-2023 at 6:00 am

Seven Silicon Catalyst Companies to Exhibit at CES, the Most Powerful Tech Event in the World

According to its website, CES® Is the global stage for innovation, delivering the most powerful tech event in the world — the proving ground for breakthrough technologies and global innovators. Owned and produced by the Consumer Technology Association (CTA)®, it is the only trade show that showcases the entire tech landscape… Read More


ReRAM Integration in BCD Process Revolutionizes Power Management Semiconductor Design

ReRAM Integration in BCD Process Revolutionizes Power Management Semiconductor Design
by Kalar Rajendiran on 12-20-2023 at 10:00 am

Power Analog ICs Adopting ReRAM

Weebit Nano, a leading developer of advanced memory technologies, recently announced a significant collaboration with DB HiTek, one of the top ten foundries of the world. The collaboration is designed to enable integration of Weebit’s Resistive Random-Access Memory (ReRAM) into DB HiTek’s 130nm Bipolar-CMOS-DMOS… Read More


Reasoning and Planning as the Next Big Thing in AI

Reasoning and Planning as the Next Big Thing in AI
by Bernard Murphy on 12-20-2023 at 6:00 am

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When I search for ‘what is the next big thing in AI?’ I find a variety of suggestions around refining and better productizing what we already know. Very understandable for any venture aiming to monetize innovation in the near term, but I am more interested in where AI can move outside the box, to solve problems well outside the purview… Read More


CHIPS Act and U.S. Fabs

CHIPS Act and U.S. Fabs
by Bill Jewell on 12-19-2023 at 10:00 am

Major Future US Fabs

In August 2022, U.S. President Biden signed into law the CHIPS and Science Act of 2022 to provide incentives for semiconductor manufacturing in the United States. In a case of creating the acronym first and then finding a name to fit, CHIPS stands for Creating Helpful Incentives to Produce Semiconductors. The act provides a total… Read More


RISC-V Summit Buzz – Launchpad Showcase Highlights Smaller Company Innovation

RISC-V Summit Buzz – Launchpad Showcase Highlights Smaller Company Innovation
by Mike Gianfagna on 12-19-2023 at 8:00 am

RISC V Summit Buzz – Launchpad Showcase Highlights Smaller Company Innovation

One of the goals of the recent RISC-V Summit was to demonstrate that the RISC-V movement is real – major programs by large organizations committing to development around the RISC-V ISA. I would say this goal was achieved. Many high-profile announcements and aggressive, new architectures based on RISC-V were presented. On day … Read More


Unleashing the 1.6T Ecosystem: Alphawave Semi’s 200G Interconnect Technologies for Powering AI Data Infrastructure

Unleashing the 1.6T Ecosystem: Alphawave Semi’s 200G Interconnect Technologies for Powering AI Data Infrastructure
by Kalar Rajendiran on 12-19-2023 at 6:00 am

Alphawave Semi 224G SerDes 1st TestChip

In the rapidly evolving landscape of artificial intelligence (AI) and data-intensive applications, the demand for high-performance interconnect technologies has never been more critical. Even the 100G Interconnect is already not fast enough for infrastructure applications. AI applications, with their massive datasets… Read More