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Edward Keonjian: The High-IQ, Armenian-American Forrest Gump of Microelectronics, Part 3
Having survived World War II, a difficult emigration to the United States, a rat- and bug-infested apartment, and numerous job rejections, Edward Keonjian was finally…
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Edward Keonjian: The High-IQ, Armenian-American Forrest Gump of Microelectronics, Part 2
When Edward Keonjian arrived in New York City from war-torn Europe in February 1947, he could speak Armenian, Russian, and German, but he was not…
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Boosting Semiconductor Fab Productivity by up to 20 Percent!
In the microelectronics industry, the term “semiconductor fabrication plant” (a.k.a. “semiconductor fab”; sometimes called a “foundry”) is a factory for semiconductor device fabrication. In layman’s…
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Chiplets for the Unwashed Masses
Do you ever get the feeling you are sitting on the cusp of a new era, metaphorically speaking? That’s the way I currently feel with…
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Edward Keonjian: The High-IQ, Armenian-American Forrest Gump of Microelectronics, Part 1
The 1986 novel Forrest Gump and the 1994 movie based on the novel depicted a man who was present at many significant events in the…
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Doing the Time Warp with Calibre DesignEnhancer
When I worked on my first ASIC deep in the mists of time that we used to call the 1980s, we employed a traditional “waterfall”…
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Ray Holt and the Lost History of the First Multi-Chip Microprocessor
During a Zoom meeting of the Computer History Museum’s (CHM) SemiSIG earlier this year, our fearless leader Doug Fairbairn mentioned that he was having trouble…
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May the Flux (Copilot) Be with You!
I have seen the future of electronic design. It is both awesome and scary. I’m too young for all this excitement. I have much to…
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In Just Two Days, Intel Foundry Services Falls from Zenith To Nadir, Then Recovers
On August 14, Intel announced that Synopsys would develop a portfolio of intellectual property (IP) for the Intel 3 and Intel 18A process nodes, which…
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Are These the Top-Performing Edge AI Processors?
I fear I am becoming befuddled, bewildered, and bemused. It seems like every day I get to chat with a new company (well, a company…