There is quite a debate raging on whether Samsung Foundry is truly in production at 14nm. The word amongst the fabless semiconductor ecosystem is yes and this comes from two very large fabless companies that are reportedly using Samsung for 14nm and have even started looking at Samsung 10nm. Of course you can Google for stories by… Read More
Arm targets the agentic AI era with new edge, cloud and robotics platformsArm is expanding its computing platform for an…Read More
Rethinking AI Chips: How VSORA Redesigned the Hardware That Runs AIInstead of tweaking existing designs, VSORA built an…Read More
UWB Without the Integration Headache: Ceva and LG Bring Precision to More ChipsCeva and LG Electronics have joined forces to…Read More
PCIe 7 Switch IP with Time Division Multiplexing: Powering the Next Generation of AI ConnectivityBy Tim Messegee, Senior Director of Solutions Marketing…Read More
Semiconductor Engineering Has a State-Continuity ProblemProduct realization depends not only on reaching the…Read More
ASML ASyMptotic progress- When will we get to EUV?
- ASML making progress – but is it fast enough?
- ASML has missed 10nm , can it catch 7nm? An economic question
- Day one at SPIE- Better tone than last year but still cautious
1000 simulated wafers versus 700 simulated
At the opening of the SPIE conference ASML announced that TSMC had reached 1000 wafers a day “exposed”… Read More
High Level Synthesis Gets Stronger
High Level Synthesis (HLS) tools have been around for at least two decades now, and you may recall that about one year ago Cadence acquired Forte. The whole promise of HLS is to provide more design and verification productivity by raising the design abstraction from RTL code up to SystemC, C or C++ code. With any acquisition it is natural… Read More
eSilicon Just Taped-out a SonicsGN-based SoC. And It’s Not a Secret
I slipped into the shadows at the back of the bar in the Tenderloin. Mid-afternoon on a weekday, almost nobody in there.
“So you’re with the NSA?” I asked.
“I can’t confirm that,” the man said.
“The Network Stealing Agency.”
“That’s not what it stands for,” he said indignantly. “It’s the National Security Agency. We ensure…well, … Read More
Advantages when Designing with FD-SOI
In total we have blogged 41 times about FD-SOI on SemiWiki which has drawn an audience of 202,960 thus far. Of that traffic 31.68% came directly to SemiWiki (Newsletter), 30.13% came from search, 26.17% from social media (LinkedIn, FaceBook, Twitter, Google+, Reddit, etc…), and 11.99% came from other referring sites. The most… Read More
CEVA Showcasing Image Processor at MWC Barcelona
Cameras are becoming ubiquitous thanks to a new wave of applications that span GoPro for sports, smart glass for the Internet eyewear, ADAS for car safety, and more. However, while these cameras boast an increasing amount of megapixels to enhance the quality of vision, what they increasingly need is more processing power to analyze… Read More
GlobalFoundries 2014: a Year of Change
GlobalFoundries at the end of 2014 is a very different company from what it was a the beginning of the year.
At the start of 2014, GF was a company with:
- a CEO in Ajit Manocha who was reputed to be just a safe pair of hands while the company found a new CEO
- several 200mm fabs in Singapore (the old Chartered fabs) running mature processes,
Synchronizer Optimization 101
A webinar presented Last week introduced two free aids to evaluating synchronizer Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF). The first, MetaACE LTD, is used to characterize the intrinsic parameters needed to calculate MTBF (tau and Tw). This limited version of MetaACE supports up to 250 circuit nodes, which is enough for a typical C-only-extracted… Read More
Product Review: Google Chromecast
Our household members own both Apple and Android devices, so we wanted a way to share our photos or videos on the Samsung TV. The device we ended up buying is called Chromecast from Google, and it’s a small media streaming device that plugs into an HDMI port on our TV. We’ve had Chromecast for about six weeks now.… Read More
Simply the Highest Performing Cortex-M MCU
If you target high growth markets like wearable (Sport Watches, Fitness Bands, Wearable medical) industrial (mPOS, Telematics, etc.) or Smart Appliances, you expect using a power efficient MCU delivering high DMIPs count. We are talking about systems requiring a low Bill of Material (BoM) both in term of cost and devices count.… Read More
ASML and TSMC’s 12-Inch Photomask Initiative: Technical Significance