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A New Verification Conference Coming to Austin

A New Verification Conference Coming to Austin
by Bernard Murphy on 08-15-2023 at 6:00 am

Actually not so new, just new to us in the US. Verification Futures is already well established as a Tessolve event with a 10-year track record in the UK. This year they are bringing the conference to Austin on September 14th (REGISTER HERE).

While DVCon is an ever-popular event for sharing verification ideas, it isn’t always accessible… Read More


Turnaround in Semiconductor Market

Turnaround in Semiconductor Market
by Bill Jewell on 08-14-2023 at 1:30 pm

Semiconductor Market Change Q3 2023

The global semiconductor market grew 4.2% in 2Q 2023 versus 1Q 2023, according to WSTS. The 2Q 2023 growth was the first positive quarter-to-quarter change since 4Q 2021, a year and a half ago. Versus a year ago, the market declined 17.3%, an improvement from a 21.3% year-to-year decline in 1Q 2023. Semiconductor market year-to-year… Read More


Next-Gen AI Engine for Intelligent Vision Applications

Next-Gen AI Engine for Intelligent Vision Applications
by Kalar Rajendiran on 08-14-2023 at 10:00 am

Synopsys ARC MetaWare NN SDK

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has witnessed explosive growth in applications across various industries, ranging from autonomous vehicles and natural language processing to computer vision and robotics. The AI embedded semiconductor market is projected to reach $800 billion by year 2030. Compare this with just $48 billion… Read More


Morris Chang’s Journey to Taiwan and TSMC

Morris Chang’s Journey to Taiwan and TSMC
by Daniel Nenni on 08-14-2023 at 6:00 am

Morris Chang 2023

High volume manufacturing is a 24/7 business with 12 hour shifts. You don’t always get to pick the shifts you want and you must cover for others when they can’t. It’s a challenging career and not for the faint of heart like myself.

In the 1980s and 1990s I spent time in Japan working with some of the top Japanese semiconductor manufacturers.… Read More


Podcast EP176: Implementing End-to-End Security with Axiado’s New Breed of Security Processor

Podcast EP176: Implementing End-to-End Security with Axiado’s New Breed of Security Processor
by Daniel Nenni on 08-11-2023 at 10:00 am

Dan is joined by Tareq Bustami, senior vice president of marketing & sales, Axiado. Tareq has more than 20 years of experience in the semiconductor and networking industries. Before joining Axiado, he led NXP’s embedded processors for the wired and wireless markets, and was in charge of growing multi-core processor solutions… Read More


The Recovery has Started and it’s off to a Great Start!

The Recovery has Started and it’s off to a Great Start!
by Malcolm Penn on 08-11-2023 at 6:00 am

Semiconductor Recovery 2023

August’s WSTS Blue Book showed Q2-2023 sales rebounding strongly, up 4.2 percent vs. Q1, heralding the end of the downturn and welcome news for the beleaguered chip industry.

The really good news, however, was that the downturn bottomed one quarter earlier than previously anticipated. This pull-forward only added a modest US$11… Read More


VC Formal Enabled QED Proofs on a RISC-V Core

VC Formal Enabled QED Proofs on a RISC-V Core
by Bernard Murphy on 08-10-2023 at 6:00 am

The Synopsys VC Formal group have a real talent for finding industry speakers to talk on illuminating outside-the-box-topics in formal verification. Not too long ago I covered an Intel talk of this kind. A recent webinar highlighted use of formal methods used together with a cool technique I have covered elsewhere called Quick… Read More


Elon Musk is Self-Aware

Elon Musk is Self-Aware
by Roger C. Lanctot on 08-09-2023 at 10:00 am

Elon Musk is Self Aware

“I think we’ll be better than human by the end of the year.” – Elon Musk, CEO, Tesla

Parsing the impact of the latest Tesla earnings call featuring CEO Elon Musk has become an eerie out-of-body experience. The comments of the CEO are simultaneously assessed in real time and in retrospect as they are being spoken. It is automotive… Read More


Insights into DevOps Trends in Hardware Design

Insights into DevOps Trends in Hardware Design
by Bernard Murphy on 08-09-2023 at 6:00 am

DevOps

Periodically I like to check in on the unsung heroes behind the attention-grabbing world of design. I’m speaking of the people responsible for the development and deployment infrastructure on which we all depend – version control, testing, build, release – collectively known these days as DevOps (development operations). … Read More