By Craig Addison While 2020 will be remembered as annus horribilis for many, it is set to be a record year for dealmaking in the chip industry.
Design
Cartesiam Transforms Edge AI Development for Industrial IoT
Cartesiam announced the availability of NanoEdge AI Studio V2, the first integrated development environment (IDE) that simplifies creation of machine learning, inference, and now classification libraries for direct implementation on Arm Cortex-M microcontrollers (MCUs).
Amid COVID-19 and Trade War, China Continues to Advance Its Semiconductor Memory Industry
Amid escalating trade tensions with the West, the process of building a self-sufficient semiconductor ecosystem in China has strongly accelerated. Chinese players are starting to threaten the market’s equilibrium and could trigger profound changes in the memory business.
A View on the Logic Technology Roadmap
While chipmakers are moving ahead with technology generations, maintaining the same timeline for scaling transistors in the front-end-of-line (FEOL), contacts and interconnects in the middle- (MOL) and back-end-of-line (BEOL) has become challenging.
Challenges to Replacing Hard-Disk Drives
Computational storage devices are the new must-have peripherals for intensive storage applications.
Xperi Licenses DBI to Canon for CMOS Image Sensors
Xperi Holding Corporation today announced Canon’s license of Invensas DBI hybrid bonding intellectual property (IP) portfolio to further enhance its image sensors.
Marvell Announces Industry’s First 112G 5nm SerDes Solution for Scaling Cloud Data Center Infrastructure
Marvell today unveiled the industry’s first 112G 5nm SerDes solution that has been validated in hardware.
Coventor and CMC Microsystems Expand Collaboration to Further Enable Innovation in Semiconductor and Microsystem Technology Development
Coventor, a Lam Research Company, and CMC Microsystems, manager of Canada’s National Design Network (CNDN), today announced an expanded technology sharing collaboration, bringing advanced software platforms to Canadian academic and startup organizations.
Mipsology Zebra on Xilinx FPGA Beats GPUs, ASICs for ML Inference Efficiency
Machine learning software innovator Mipsology today announced that its Zebra AI inference accelerator achieved the highest efficiency based on the latest MLPerf inference benchmarking.
Researchers Make Key Advance for Printing Circuitry on Wearable Fabrics
Electronic shirts that keep the wearer comfortably warm or cool, as well as medical fabrics that deliver drugs, monitor the condition of a wound and perform other tasks, may one day be manufactured more efficiently thanks to a key advance by Oregon State University researchers.
