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		New Media is a double edged sword for sure. The good news is that you get to read articles by people who actually work in the semiconductor industry.  The bad news is that hidden agendas and disinformation abound so let the reader beware, especially if that reader is risking their retirement money!
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		I thought I write about one of the most important subjects in FPGAs, that is power. Power of course is not just based on node size, and it is funny why so many people are concerned about node size. If not just as important is the architectural decisions that drive down power. Do you really care if your part is 16nm or 14nm? Or do you care more… Read More 
	 
	
	
	
		
	
		
			
		
	
	
		
		
	
	
	
		Wally Rhines gave the keynote at DAC in 2004. One of the things that he pointed out ten years ago was that EDA revenue for any given market segment is pretty much flat once the initial growth phase has taken place and the market has been established. Incremental EDA revenue only comes from delivering new capabilities. Historically… Read More 
	 
	
	
	
		
	
		
			
		
	
	
		
		
	
	
	
		As promised in my May 27th blog, I visited an ESL company at DAC three weeks ago that introduced two new tools:
- Thermal Profiler 
- Power Intelligence 
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		It’s hard to believe that SEMICON West is upon us once again at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. This is the premier semiconductor conference for cutting-edge equipment, processes, and materials, to solutions to  today’s design and manufacturing challenges. Remember, it’s not what you know (because … Read More 
	 
	
	
	
		
	
		
			
		
	
	
		
		
	
	
	
		Introduction
There have been some claims made recently that planar Fully Depleted Silicon On Insulator (FDSOI) is less expensive than bulk planar processes and FinFETs at various nodes. Some of these claims suggest that FinFETs in particular are significantly more expensive. My company, IC Knowledge LLC produces the most widely… Read More 
	 
	
	
	
		
	
		The “Key” to Realityby Bill Boldt on 06-23-2014 at 9:00 pmCategories: Foundries
 
			
		
	
	
		
		
	
	
	
		If we wanted to reduce the definition of authentication to its most Zen-like simplicity, we could say authentication is “keeping things real.” To keep something real you need to have some sort of confirmation of its identity, as confirmation is the key (so to speak).… Read More 
	 
	
	
	
		
	
		
			
		
	
	
		
		
	
	
	
		Cliff Hou had two major appearances at DAC this year. He gave the opening day keynote…and he wrote the forward to Dan and my bookFabless: the Transformation of the Semiconductor Industry which about 1500 lucky people got a copy of courtesy of several companies, most notably eSilicon who sponsored the Tuesday evening post-conference… Read More 
	 
	
	
	
		
	
		
			
		
	
	
		
		
	
	
	
		Today the semiconductor industry along with electronics industry is looking up to capitalize from massive expansion foreseen in IoT (Internet of Things) domain. In simple terms we can consider IoT as connectivity between machines which can communicate with each other and work as programmed. In localized applications such … Read More 
	 
	
	
	
		
	
		
			
		
	
	
		
		
	
	
	
		During my illustrious career one of the most useful axioms that I  use just about everyday day is:  “Understand what people say but also understand  why they are saying it.” This certainly applies to press releases so let’s take a  look at what Intel unleashed during #51DAC (in alphabetical order):
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Intel to Compete with Broadcom and Marvell in the Lucrative ASIC Business