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…
As per reports, South Korea plans to spend US$450 billion on semiconductors in logic chip manufacturing and R&D by 2030. It is not yet clear how large the subsidy will be, but these funds will include a mixture of government…
Types of Synthesis There are basically two types of synthesis: 1. Logical Synthesis 2. Physical Synthesis Logical Synthesis To perform the logical synthesis, we need to have basic inputs like RTL, SDC, UPF and Timing lib. In this type of…
What is Synthesis? Synthesis comes between the RTL Design & Verification and Physical design steps in VLSI. The meaning of synthesis is the transformation of a level of idea into another. To give an overview, let me clarify few points…
IBM launches the world’s first 2nm chip. The 2nm chips can hold more than 300 million transistors in one square millimeter! IBM said it has developed the first semiconductor using 2 nanometer (nm) nanosheet technology. IBM expects that this major…
The total shipment of semiconductors this year is expected to exceed the 1 trillion mark. This includes transportation of ICs and optoelectronics, sensors/actuators and discrete (O-S-D) devices. According to a report, by 2021, semiconductor shipments will increase by 13%, reaching…
Austin-based NXP Semiconductors reported that as Texas was shut down for a month due to a grid collapse caused by cold weather, it could cost the company $100 million. Why it’s a matter of concern? The global chip shortage (due…