2024 Outlook with Matt Burns of Samtec

2024 Outlook with Matt Burns of Samtec
by Daniel Nenni on 01-04-2024 at 6:00 am

Matt Burns Samtec

Matt develops go-to-market strategies for Samtec’s Silicon to Silicon solutions. Over the course of 20+ years, he has been a leader in design, technical sales and marketing in the telecommunications, medical and electronic components industries. It has been an honor working with Matt and his team for the last 3 years and I value… Read More


Prototyping Chiplets from the Desktop!

Prototyping Chiplets from the Desktop!
by Daniel Nenni on 12-05-2023 at 10:00 am

S2C PLM Mini

S2C has been successfully delivering rapid SoC prototyping solutions since 2003 with over 600 customers, including 6 of the world’s top 10 semiconductor companies. I personally have been involved with the prototyping market for a good part of my career and know S2C intimately.

S2C is the leading independent global supplier… Read More


Ensuring 3D IC Semiconductor Reliability: Challenges and Solutions for Successful Integration

Ensuring 3D IC Semiconductor Reliability: Challenges and Solutions for Successful Integration
by Kalar Rajendiran on 10-25-2023 at 10:00 am

3D IC Cross Section Illustration

One of the most promising advancements in the semiconductor field is the development of 3D Integrated Circuits (3D ICs). 3D ICs enable companies to partition semiconductor designs and seamlessly integrate silicon Intellectual Property (IP) at the most suitable process nodes and processes. This strategic partitioning yields… Read More


Intel Ushers a New Era of Advanced Packaging with Glass Substrates

Intel Ushers a New Era of Advanced Packaging with Glass Substrates
by Mike Gianfagna on 09-18-2023 at 10:00 am

Intel Ushers a New Era of Advanced Packaging with Glass Substrates


Intel recently issued a press announcement that has significant implications for the future of semiconductors.  The release announces Intel’s new glass substrate technology. The headline states: Glass substrates help overcome limitations of organic materials by enabling an order of magnitude improvement in design rulesRead More


Interface IP in 2022: 22% YoY growth still data-centric driven

Interface IP in 2022: 22% YoY growth still data-centric driven
by Eric Esteve on 09-04-2023 at 10:00 am

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We have shown in the “Design IP Report” 2022 that the market share of the wired Interface IP category is a growing part of the total IP, and that this trend is confirmed year after year. The interface IP category has moved from 18% share in 2017 to 25% in 2022.

During the 2010-decade, smartphone was the strong driver for the IP industry,… Read More


CEO Interview: Anna Fontanelli of MZ Technologies

CEO Interview: Anna Fontanelli of MZ Technologies
by Daniel Nenni on 08-18-2023 at 6:00 am

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Anna has more than 25 years of expertise in managing complex R&D organizations and programs, giving birth to a number of innovative EDA technologies. She has pioneered the study and development of several generations of IC and package co-design environments and has held senior positions at leading semiconductor and EDA … Read More


Alphawave Semi Visit at #60DAC

Alphawave Semi Visit at #60DAC
by Daniel Payne on 08-03-2023 at 10:00 am

Alphawavesemi, DAC 2023 3nm eye diagram

On Wednesday at #60DAC I met Sudhir Mallya, Sr. VP Corporate Marketing at Alphawave Semi to get an update about what’s been happening at their IP company and with industry trends. The tagline for their company is: Accelerating the Connected World; and they have IP for connectivity, offer chiplet solutions, and even provide… Read More


Requirements for Multi-Die System Success

Requirements for Multi-Die System Success
by Daniel Nenni on 06-16-2023 at 6:00 am

Synopsys Chiplet Report 2023

Chiplets continue to be a hot topic on SemiWiki, conferences, white papers, webinars and one of the most active chiplet enabling vendors we work with is Synopsys. Synopsys is the #1 EDA and #1 IP company so that makes complete sense.

As you may have read, I moderated a panel on Chiplets at the last SNUG which we continue to write about.

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TSMC Doubles Down on Semiconductor Packaging!

TSMC Doubles Down on Semiconductor Packaging!
by Daniel Nenni on 06-14-2023 at 6:00 am

TSMC 3DFabric Integration

Last week TSMC announced the opening of an advanced backend fab for the expansion of the TSMC 3DFabric System Integration Technology. It’s a significant announcement as the chip packaging arms race with Intel and Samsung is heating up.

Fab 6 is TSMC’s first all-in-one advanced packaging and testing fab which is part of the… Read More


WEBINAR: UCIe PHY Modeling and Simulation with XMODEL

WEBINAR: UCIe PHY Modeling and Simulation with XMODEL
by Daniel Nenni on 06-05-2023 at 6:00 am

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Join this webinar and see UCIe in action! This webinar presents the SystemVerilog models of a Universal Chiplet Interconnect Express (UCIe) interface, including both the analog circuits in the electrical layer and digital FSMs in the logical layer. The whole physical layer (PHY) model can be efficiently simulated in SystemVerilog,… Read More