Rising complexity, new architectures, and AI's permeation of nearly everything left engineers struggling to keep up in 2025, as evidenced by this year's viewership numbers. Among the hottest topics were verification, agentic AI, DRAM/HBM, optimization of data movement, chiplets, and heterogeneous integration, but there was steady traffic growth across all sectors.Top 10 most-watched videos ...» read more
Deals:NVIDIA inked a $20B non-exclusive licensing deal with Groq for its inference technology. The startup's founder, Jonathan Ross, and some other employees will join NVIDIA to assist in scaling and advancing the technology. The non-exclusive licensing deal, versus an outright purchase, is a tool other companies have used to avoid antitrust regulation.Samsung Ventures made a strategic inv...» read more
2025 has certainly been a year of unexpected changes. These had a significant impact on the semiconductor industry and everything that supports it. Not all the changes have been bad, but flexibility has been a requirement for continued success or to make the most of an opportunity provided.Some industries, such as aerospace and defense, are seeing a significant boost around the world. Data ...» read more
ICs and SoCs are utilizing a range of processing elements that allow them to optimize current workloads while hedging their bets for the future.What used to be a simple choice between an ASIC, FPGA, or DSP, has evolved into a mix of processor types and architectures, including varying levels of programmability and customization. Speed is essential, but technology is evolving so quickly that...» read more
Deals of the week: Arteris announced plans to acquire cybersecurity provider Cycuity. “Expanding our technology portfolio to include Cycuity’s hardware security assurance products will enable our customers to achieve secure on-chip data movement,” said Charlie Janac, chairman and CEO of Arteris. Qualcomm acquired Ventana Micro Systems, a maker of RISC-V data center-class CPU IP. ...» read more
Major Deals: Taiwan-based UMC is exploring possible collaboration with Polar Semiconductor for high-volume production of 8-inch wafers at Polar’s expanded Minnesota fab, a move that could provide domestic manufacturing capacity for automotive, data center, consumer, aerospace, and defense customers. Marvell will acquire Celestial AI for $3.25B, adding photonic fabric technology for o...» read more
Robots are becoming smarter, more capable, and more pervasive, setting the stage for a whole new round of growth that will touch nearly every part of the semiconductor and software industries for decades to come.Robots are at the core of physical AI, a broad segment of edge AI systems that interact with the world through artificial intelligence and sensors. This includes everything from hum...» read more
AI's infusion into our world may seem sudden and unexpected, but EDA has been quietly adopting it for more than a decade. What's changed is that it's now becoming more visible, thanks to increasingly powerful large language models (LLMs) and the need to apply them to increasingly challenging multi-physics problems.Two fundamental shifts underlie AI's increasing prominence. First, heat is be...» read more
FPGAs are finding new applications in the age of artificial intelligence, high-speed wireless communications, medical and life science technology, and in complex chip architectures where they can improve the flow of data.Field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) enable designers to reprogram or reconfigure digital logic after the chips have been deployed, which is essential in the AI world, wher...» read more
Silicon lifecycle management (SLM) is transforming chip architectures, empowering designers to build smarter, more resilient, and secure semiconductor devices by leveraging data from manufacturing to end of life in the field.That data can be used to improve future designs, reduce margin, and continuously optimize performance and power efficiency throughout a chip's lifetime. Moreover, under...» read more
Workflows and the addition of new capabilities are happening much faster than with previous technologies, and new grads may be vital in that transition.
Workflows and the addition of new capabilities are happening much faster than with previous technologies, and new grads may be vital in that transition.
Companies and governments invested heavily in onshoring fabs and facilities over the past 12 months as tariffs threatened to upset the global supply chain.
Memory chip shortages prompt price increases; Israeli chip foundry; 2 acquisitions; Baidu's AI chips; IBM's new quantum processor; GF's GaN push; 3D NAND scaling boosters; U.S. policy recommendations; +$500M in fundings; SiPho and SiGe capacity; EV joint venture.
Growing use cases include life science AI, reducing memory and I/O bottlenecks, data prepping, wireless networking, and as insurance for evolving protocols.
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