Nanosheets are likeliest option throughout this decade, with CFETs and other exotic structures possible after that. | Continue reading
Old tech still accounts for 75% of all packages, and likely will continue to play important role as equipment improves. | Continue reading
Some 300mm tools are converted to 200mm; equipment prices and chip manufacturing costs are rising. | Continue reading
Why this is becoming a bigger issue, and what can be done to mitigate the effects. | Continue reading
Hardware is faster, but software is easier, and for some applications that may be good enough. | Continue reading
Unexpected upside driving the semiconductor and EDA industries into 2022. | Continue reading
How much do we pay for a system to be programmable? It depends upon who you ask. | Continue reading
Is there room for an even smaller version of a RISC-V processor that could replace 8-bit microcontrollers? | Continue reading
More electronic conveniences open door to more hacking. | Continue reading
New and faster memory designs are being developed, but their future is uncertain. | Continue reading
Correlation becomes big challenge as data sources and volume increase. | Continue reading
The good and bad of replacing electrical signals with optical ones. | Continue reading
Where the bottlenecks are, and what can be done to eliminate them. | Continue reading
There's a lot of discussion about how this can work, and even some pioneering work, but no firm conclusions. | Continue reading
Threats are growing and widening, but what is considered sufficient can vary greatly by application or by user. Even then, it may not be enough. | Continue reading
Partitioning and floor-planning become big challenges. What goes on which die? | Continue reading
Massive expansion campaign targets wide variety of chips, but export controls limit growth at leading edge. | Continue reading
How dopant atoms could make qubits that last much longer. | Continue reading
Some segments are normalizing, others may be impacted through 2022. | Continue reading
Will zonal architectures in automotive applications provide unique benefits to cybersecurity? | Continue reading
How to design a device with a 25-year battery life. | Continue reading
Faulty models, poison code, and corrupt data could cause widespread disruption. | Continue reading
Sharing resources can significantly improve utilization and lower costs, but it's not a simple shift. | Continue reading
Why cyberattacks on the IC supply chain are so hard to prevent. | Continue reading
Simpler approaches are necessary to keep pace with constantly evolving models and new applications. | Continue reading
How additive manufacturing is changing packaging and PCB design. | Continue reading
Abstraction is the key to custom processor design and verification, but defining the right language and tool flow is a work in progress. | Continue reading
Higher density of interconnects will enable faster movement of data, but there's more than one way to achieve that. | Continue reading
It's not easy to include interposers in a design today, but as the wrinkles get ironed out, new tools, methodologies, and standards will enable it for the masses. | Continue reading
New levels of system performance bring new tradeoffs. | Continue reading
Surface mount technology is changing in some surprising ways. | Continue reading
Aluminum nitride, diamond semiconductors, gallium oxide and vertical GaN are all being readied, each with its own pros and cons. | Continue reading
As SiC moves to higher voltages, BEV users get faster charging, extended range, and lower system costs | Continue reading
Rules are still being formulated even though the technology is already deployed. | Continue reading
Mind-boggling number of options emerge, but which is best often isn't clear. | Continue reading
Companies and countries are pouring tens of billions of dollars into different qubit technologies, but it's still too early to predict a winner. | Continue reading
Bringing the cost down and yield up on microLED is proving to be formidable, but display companies and LED suppliers are working together toward production-worthy solutions. | Continue reading
Increasing interactions and complexity require more tools and cross-domain techniques. | Continue reading
Time spent in debug is unpredictable. It consumes a large portion of the development cycle and can disrupt schedules, but good practices can minimize it. | Continue reading
Automakers shifting to HPC chips for improved performance and lower system cost. | Continue reading
Is there an open-source business model that works for verification and debug? | Continue reading
An emphasis on customization, many more packaging options, and rising costs of scaling are changing dynamics across the industry. | Continue reading
Replacing digital with analog circuits and photonics can improve performance and power, but it's not that simple. | Continue reading
Just because an invention is no longer practical for many applications does not mean it wasn't a good invention at the time. | Continue reading
How long a chip is supposed to function raises questions design teams need to think about, including how much they trust aging models. | Continue reading
How to navigate a flood of confusing choices and terminology. | Continue reading
An upbeat industry at the start of the year met one of its biggest challenges, but instead of being a headwind, it quickly turned into a tailwind. | Continue reading
New interconnects and processes will be required to reach the next process nodes. | Continue reading