Category: Semiconductor
Semiconductor/IC
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Sticking With their Story: Zeno Demonstrates 1T SRAM at Leading Nodes
Let’s face it: We’re addicted to SRAM. It’s big, it’s power-hungry, but it’s fast. And no matter how much we complain about it, we still…
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Bill Godbout Perishes in Northern California’s Camp Fire
People of a certain age, who mindfully lived through the early microcomputer revolution during the first half of the 1970s, know about Bill Godbout.…
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Costs for Sub-20nm Wafers put Another Nail in Moore’s Law’s Coffin
IC Insights has just published the September Update to The 2018 McClean Report, and one figure (reproduced below) puts yet another nail into the…
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Will We Ever Really Know Who Invented the Microprocessor?
FPGA luminary David Laws has just published a well-researched blog on the Computer History Museum’s Web site titled “Who invented the Microprocessor?” If you’re wildly…
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For Lease: Birthplace of the IC
The lease listing on the Pacific American Group’s Web site reads: “Eight Forty Four East Charleston Road is a historically relevant commercial building in…
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Xilinx’s CEO Victor Peng Speaks About 7nm Everest/ACAP, Death of Moore’s Law. His Hot Chips 30 Keynote Now Online
Earlier this week, I published a detailed account of the HW/SW Programmable Engine that was the final, undisclosed block in the Xilinx Everest Architecture, to…
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Monty Python, Dead Parrots, Moore’s Law, and the ITRS
The news that GlobalFoundries has ceased work on its 7nm process node has prompted me to rewrite Monty Python’s remarkably appropriate Dead Parrot/Pet Shoppe sketch:…
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391 San Antonio Road: The House that William Shockley Built (and Destroyed)
Once upon a time, the Santa Clara Valley was called the Valley of Heart’s Delight; the main industry was growing prunes; and there were orchards…
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EDPS (The Electronic Design Process Symposium) is Silicon Valley’s Hidden Gem, September 13-14, 2018
For twenty-five years, EDPS—the Electronic Design Process Symposium—has been probing the very limits of design. While it formerly took place in exotic locale of Sand…