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CASPA 2020 Spring Online Workshop: Semiconductor Investment and Technology Trends under COVID-19 Pandemic

CASPA 2020 Spring Online Workshop: Semiconductor Investment and Technology Trends under COVID-19 Pandemic
by Daniel Nenni on 05-21-2020 at 6:39 am

About this Event

Event: CASPA Spring Online Workshop (华美半导体协会春季线上讲座)

Topic: Semiconductor Investment and Technology Trends under COVID-19 Pandemic

Venue: Online (this event will be broadcast to you through Cisco Webex Conference)

Date and time:

US Pacific time: 5/30/2020, 5:00PM to 7:40PM

China Beijing Time: 5/31/2020,

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A Preview of Spring Symposium on AIoT

A Preview of Spring Symposium on AIoT
by Alex Tan on 03-05-2019 at 12:00 pm
Categories: AI, CASPA, Events, RISC-V

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The trend of AI augmentation into many facets of silicon based hardware applications is on the rise. During the CASPA press conference in Santa Clara last week, Silvaco CEO David Dutton and SiFive VP, GM Christopher Moezzi were present to share their insights.

Silvaco CEO David Dutton mentioned that we are in new era in which many… Read More

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FPGA, Data and CASPA: Spring into AI (2 of 2)

FPGA, Data and CASPA: Spring into AI (2 of 2)
by Alex Tan on 03-23-2018 at 12:00 pm
Categories: AI, CASPA, EDA, FPGA, Intel, SiFive, Xilinx

Adding color to the talks, Dr. Jeff Welser, VP and IBM Almaden Research Lab Director showed how AI and recent computing resources could be harnessed to contain data explosion. Unstructured data growth by 2020 would be in the order of 50 Zetta-bytes (with 21 zeros). One example, the Summit supercomputer developed by IBM for use at… Read More

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FPGA, Data and CASPA: Spring into AI

FPGA, Data and CASPA: Spring into AI
by Alex Tan on 03-21-2018 at 12:00 pm
Categories: AI, FPGA, Intel, Xilinx

Just like good ideas percolate longer, we have seen AI adoption pace picking-up speed, propelled by faster GPUs. Some recent data points provide good indication that FPGA making a comeback to bridge chip-design needs to keep-up with AI’s ML applications.

According to the Deloitte research firm there is a projected increase of… Read More

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TSMC EDA 2.0 With Machine Learning: Are We There Yet ?

TSMC EDA 2.0 With Machine Learning: Are We There Yet ?
by Alex Tan on 11-06-2017 at 7:00 am
Categories: Ansys, Inc., Arm, Cadence, EDA, FinFET, Solido, Synopsys, TSMC

Recently we have been swamped by news of Artificial Intelligence applications in hardware and software by the increased adoption of Machine Learning (ML) and the shift of electronic industry towards IoT and automobiles. While plenty of discussions have covered the progress of embedded intelligence in product roll-outs, an… Read More

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Dinner with the Man who is Reshaping the Semiconductor Industry!

Dinner with the Man who is Reshaping the Semiconductor Industry!
by Daniel Nenni on 10-07-2015 at 4:00 pm
Categories: CASPA, Semiconductor Services

The recent mega acquisition of Broadcom Corp by Avago can be traced all the way back to Silicon Valley stalwart Hewlett Packard (founded in a two car Palo Alto garage in 1939). Even more interesting is the man behind the acquisition and how he got to where he is today.Avago began as the semiconductor products division of HP in 1961, … Read More

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CASPA, ARM and the Internet of Things

CASPA, ARM and the Internet of Things
by Paul McLellan on 10-12-2014 at 7:01 am
Categories: Arm, CASPA, IP, Semiconductor Services

Today I was at the Chinese-American Semiconductor Professionals’ Association conference and dinner. Simon Segars, CEO of ARM, gave the dinner keynote. Somewhat surreally, it was in the same room in the same conference center two weeks ago that he gave they keynote at ARM TechCon. In another coincidence, Mike Muller of … Read More

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iPhone or Wallet – Which one do you go back for?

iPhone or Wallet – Which one do you go back for?
by Daniel Nenni on 10-08-2014 at 7:00 am
Categories: CASPA, Mobile

As a professional conference attendee I see a direct correlation between the number of people attending and the quality of the keynotes. Let’s face it, it’s all about the keynotes so you had better get some big names if you want more than your friends and family to show up. In this regards the upcoming CASPA event will probably be one… Read More

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FD-SOI: 20nm Performance at 28nm Cost

FD-SOI: 20nm Performance at 28nm Cost
by Paul McLellan on 07-28-2014 at 8:01 am
Categories: FD-SOI, Foundries, STMicroelectronics

There has been a lot of controversy about whether FD-SOI is or is not cheaper to manufacture than FinFET. Since right now FinFET is a 16nm process (22nm for Intel) and FD-SOI is, for now, a 28nm process it is not entirely clear how useful a comparison this is. Scotten Jones has very detailed process cost modeling software (that is what… Read More

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Enabling Technologies that Will Shape the next Wearables

Enabling Technologies that Will Shape the next Wearables
by Daniel Nenni on 06-21-2014 at 10:00 am
Categories: EDA, Events

One of the benefits of spending the last 30 years working in Silicon Valley and publishing a fabless semiconductor book is that I get invitations to speak at events I would normally be attending. Being on the other side of the podium is truly a unique experience and one worth pursuing, absolutely. This month I spoke at #51DAC about … Read More