Semiconductor manufacturer Global Foundries is increasing its production capacity in Singapore with a huge investment of US$4 billion (S$5.4 billion). The company said on Tuesday (June 22) that it has added a new wafer fab or manufacturing plant in the…
The Berkeley engineering students completed a novel chip design in just one semester! The class demonstrates a successful model of expanding into the field of semiconductor design. In terms that may have an important impact on engineering education and chip…
As part of the China-US trade war, when the US government effectively forced Huawei’s subsidiary HiSilicon to withdraw from the smartphone chip business last year, Qualcomm and MediaTek filled the gap left by Huawei. The Chinese government-backed Huawei and its…
To achieve this goal, the Google team used a data set of 10,000 chip layouts for machine learning models, and then used reinforcement learning for training. In the face of a severe shortage of semiconductors or chips worldwide, the Google…
Qualcomm’s chief executive said that if Nvidia’s deal with Arm violates regulatory review, and then SoftBank decides to IPO, Qualcomm will prepare to buy Arm’s shares together with other technology companies. “If Arm has an independent future, I think you…
Last week, the automotive software company Indie Semiconductor (NASDAQ: INDI) went public through a reverse merger with SPAC Thunder Bridge Acquisition II. The combined company’s balance sheet has $495 million in cash. Presently, the shares of INDI are down 5.7%…
According to Reuters, Intel has bid $2 billion to acquire SiFive, a 6-year-old RISC-V chip design company. When it raised funds for the last time-last year’s $61 million E series-SiFive was valued at $500 million. In 2019, its D round…
How High-Quality RTL Impacts Synthesis: A Closer Look In this post, we’re diving into how the quality of your RTL (Register Transfer Level) design directly affects the synthesis process. Think of it this way: the better your RTL, the smoother…
In a latest news, TSMC beats IBM’s 2nm chip technology hype with 1nm proposition. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC), The National Taiwan University (NTU) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have collectively announced a major breakthrough in the development of…
What is Physical Synthesis? To start physical synthesis, we need to have all the inputs like RTL, SDC, timing lib, physical lib, UPF, DEF and other tech files. At this stage, we go for initial placement and trial route after…