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Semiconductor Market Uncertainty

Semiconductor Market Uncertainty
by Bill Jewell on 05-28-2025 at 2:00 pm

2025 Semiconductor Market Forecast

WSTS reported 1st quarter 2025 semiconductor market revenues of $167.7 billion, up 18.8% from a year earlier and down 2.8% from the prior quarter. The first quarter of 2025 was weak for most major semiconductor companies. Ten of the sixteen companies in the table below had declines in revenue versus 4Q 2024, ranging from -0.1% from… Read More


Design-Technology Co-Optimization (DTCO) Accelerates Market Readiness of Angstrom-Scale Process Technologies

Design-Technology Co-Optimization (DTCO) Accelerates Market Readiness of Angstrom-Scale Process Technologies
by Kalar Rajendiran on 05-28-2025 at 10:00 am

Sassine Holding an 18A Test chip

Design-Technology Co-Optimization (DTCO) has been a foundational concept in semiconductor engineering for years. So, when Synopsys referenced DTCO in their April 2025 press release about enabling Angstrom-scale chip designs on Intel’s 18A and 18A-P process technologies, it may have sounded familiar—almost expected. … Read More


Optimizing an IR for Hardware Design. Innovation in Verification

Optimizing an IR for Hardware Design. Innovation in Verification
by Bernard Murphy on 05-28-2025 at 6:00 am

Innovation New

Intermediate representations (IRs) between high level languages (C++, AI, etc.) and machine language are both commonplace (witness LLVM) and a continuing active area of research. Paul Cunningham (GM, Verification at Cadence), Raúl Camposano (Silicon Catalyst, entrepreneur, former Synopsys CTO and lecturer at Stanford,… Read More


WEBINAR: PCIe 7.0? Understanding Why Now Is the Time to Transition

WEBINAR: PCIe 7.0? Understanding Why Now Is the Time to Transition
by Don Dingee on 05-27-2025 at 10:00 am

PCIe application interface options are the primary motivation for the PCIe 7.0 transition

PCIe is familiar to legions of PC users as a high-performance enabler for expansion slots, especially GPU-based graphics cards and M.2 SSDs. It connects higher-bandwidth networking adapters and niche applications like system expansion chassis in server environments. Each PCIe specification generation has provided a leap… Read More


Andes Technology: Powering the Full Spectrum – from Embedded Control to AI and Beyond

Andes Technology: Powering the Full Spectrum – from Embedded Control to AI and Beyond
by Kalar Rajendiran on 05-27-2025 at 6:00 am

Overview of Andes Product Categories

As the computing industry seeks more flexible, scalable, and open hardware architectures, RISC-V has emerged as a compelling alternative to proprietary instruction set architectures. At the forefront of this revolution stands Andes Technology, offering a comprehensive lineup of RISC-V processor solutions that go far beyond… Read More


Voice as a Feature: A Silent Revolution in AI-Enabled SoCs

Voice as a Feature: A Silent Revolution in AI-Enabled SoCs
by Jonah McLeod on 05-26-2025 at 10:00 am

Voice as a Feature

When Apple introduced Siri in 2011, it was the first serious attempt to make voice interaction a mainstream user interface. Embedded into the iPhone 4S, Siri brought voice into consumers’ lives not as a standalone product, but as a built-in feature—a hands-free way to interact with an existing device. Siri set the expectation… Read More


From All-in-One IP to Cervell™: How Semidynamics Reimagined AI Compute with RISC-V

From All-in-One IP to Cervell™: How Semidynamics Reimagined AI Compute with RISC-V
by Kalar Rajendiran on 05-26-2025 at 6:00 am

Started with a look at CPU

In an era where artificial intelligence workloads are growing in scale, complexity, and diversity, chipmakers are facing increasing pressure to deliver solutions that are not only fast, but also flexible and programmable. Semidynamics recently announced Cervell™, a fully programmable Neural Processing Unit (NPU) designedRead More


Executive Interview with Mohan Iyer – Vice President and General Manager, Semiconductor Business Unit, Thermo Fisher Scientific

Executive Interview with Mohan Iyer – Vice President and General Manager, Semiconductor Business Unit, Thermo Fisher Scientific
by Daniel Nenni on 05-24-2025 at 10:00 am

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Mohan Iyer serves as the Vice President and General Manager of the Semiconductor Business Unit at Thermo Fisher Scientific, a global leader in providing reference metrology, defect characterization, and localization equipment. These advanced systems are essential for driving innovation, accelerating time to market, and… Read More


CEO Interview with Jason Lynch of Equal1

CEO Interview with Jason Lynch of Equal1
by Daniel Nenni on 05-24-2025 at 6:00 am

Equal1. 27/2/25 Picture by Fergal Phillips

For more than 20 years, Jason has delivered high impact results in executive management. Prior to Equal1, he held several executive management positions at Analog Devices, Hittite and Farren Technology. In these roles, Jason built and managed large teams comprising sales, operation and finance and was responsible for significant… Read More


Podcast EP288: How Alphawave Semi Enables Next Generation Connectivity with Bharat Tailor

Podcast EP288: How Alphawave Semi Enables Next Generation Connectivity with Bharat Tailor
by Daniel Nenni on 05-23-2025 at 10:00 am

Dan is joined by Bharat Tailor who is responsible for the Alphawave standard connectivity products portfolio focused on DSP chipsets enabling AI data center interconnects. He is a veteran of the high-speed connectivity semiconductor industry having participated in the evolution of connectivity technologies from 10Gbps … Read More