Open Silicon Year in Review 2017

Open Silicon Year in Review 2017
by Daniel Nenni on 01-31-2018 at 7:00 am

If you are interested in what types of chips we will see in the coming years always ask an ASIC provider because they know. Companies of all sizes (small-medium-large) use ASIC companies to get their chips out in the least amount of time and at a minimum cost because that is what ASIC companies do.

IP is an important ingredient to the … Read More


NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Poised To Claim The Gaming And VR Performance Crown

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Poised To Claim The Gaming And VR Performance Crown
by Patrick Moorhead on 06-08-2016 at 12:00 pm

NVIDIA has been teasing the promise of Pascal for years, but this year Pascal’s performance became much more real. With the announcement of the Tesla P100 based on Pascal, NVIDIA was able to show the neural-network world what Pascal was really capable of. However, that chip is very different from the gaming-focused Pascal chip … Read More


Mentor at TSMC OIP, 16nm, and 10nm

Mentor at TSMC OIP, 16nm, and 10nm
by Beth Martin on 09-26-2014 at 4:46 pm

On Tuesday, September 30, TSMC hosts another Open Innovation Platform Ecosystem forum at the San Jose Convention Center. Have you registered? This year includes 30 technical sessions from TSMC’s ecosystem partners, divided into three separate tracks. I’ll be hanging out in the EDA track, listening to various takes on 16nm FinFET… Read More


TSMC vs Intel vs Samsung FinFETs

TSMC vs Intel vs Samsung FinFETs
by Daniel Nenni on 06-08-2014 at 10:50 am

By definition the pure-play foundry business model separates the design and manufacturing of a semiconductor device. TSMC was the first dedicated (pure-play) foundry which enabled the incredible fabless semiconductor ecosystem we have today. If not for the fabless business model we would not have the supercomputer class … Read More


Introduction to FinFET Technology Part III

Introduction to FinFET Technology Part III
by Tom Dillinger on 11-21-2012 at 5:30 pm

The preceding two Semiwiki articles in this thread provided an overview to the FinFET structure and fabrication. The next three articles will discuss some of the unique modeling requirements and design constraints that FinFET’s introduce, compared to planar FET technology.

Due to the complexity of FinFET modeling – … Read More


16nm FinFET versus 20nm Planar!

16nm FinFET versus 20nm Planar!
by Daniel Nenni on 11-04-2012 at 8:10 pm

The common theme amongst semiconductor ecosystem conferences this year is FinFETS, probably the most exciting technology we will see this decade. A lot has been written on SemiWiki about FinFETS, it is one of the top trending search terms, but there is some confusion about the process naming so let me attempt to explain.

In planar… Read More