Entries for February 2015
China Clouds Chip Outlook
posted on February 05, 2015 11:05
AN JOSE, Calif. — A week into his new job as head of the semiconductor trade group, John Neuffer was celebrating the industry’s record revenues and packing his bags for China. Chip makers had a good year overall, but the Chinese government's aspirations to take a bigger bite out of the business is goading the newly installed chief executive of the Semiconductor Industry Association into action.
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Back To The Future
posted on February 05, 2015 11:04
The push to the next process node typically has meant that designs get simpler at existing and older nodes because the process technology is more mature and there have been so many chips developed at those nodes—many billions of them—that every possible corner case has been encountered hundreds, if not thousands, of times.
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China Market Continues to Defy Global Trends with Projected Double-Digit Growth
posted on February 05, 2015 11:03
While the days of double-digit compound annual growth rates (CAGRs) for the global semiconductor industry have largely passed, the continued growing demand for electronic products in China continues to drive investment in growing the nation’s domestic chip-making capabilities at double-digit levels.
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Changes and Challenges Abound in Multi-patterning Lithography
posted on February 05, 2015 11:02
Multi-patterning lithography is a fact of life for many chipmakers. Experts in the fields of electronic design automation and lithography address the issues associated with the technology.
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Darker Silicon
posted on February 05, 2015 11:01
For the last several decades, integrated circuit manufacturers have focused their efforts on Moore’s Law, increasing transistor density at constant cost. For much of that time, Dennard’s Law also held: As the dimensions of a device go down, so does power consumption. Smaller transistors ran faster, used less power, and cost less.
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