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Category: Semiconductor

Semiconductor/IC

  • MIPS Gets a New Home

    Hey, wanna buy a CPU company? You’re too late, because MIPS Technologies was just sold for $60 million in cash. If that’s more than you…

  • Hardware Security in the Cloud

    Some time back, we covered “physically unclonable functions,” or PUFs. These are techniques for deriving a key from the random characteristics of a specific piece…

  • And the Ecosystem Starts

    In today’s discussion of the move to 450-mm wafers, we looked at one of the first pieces of equipment that will initiate the entire development…

  • Coast-to-Coast Nanotechnology

    Much of the early work on technology is, of course, done in universities. And schools are increasingly collaborating to be more effective. Cornell and Stanford,…

  • Photonics on Different Silicon

    The use of photons as signal carriers has historically gone towards long-distance transport, either over the air (feels like waves more than photons) or within…

  • EUV Movement Towards HVM

    When last we talked with Cymer, they had just announced their PrePulse technology that gets more of the energy out of the droplets they blast…

  • More Custom Cores

    At DAC, there was a special event for first-time DAC exhibitors to come talk to media folks. Kind of a way for them to get…

  • 450 In Belgium

    Changing wafer size is a big deal. You can kiss all your old equipment good-bye and usher in a whole new suite. So what happens…

  • Hierarchical Bug Tracking

    Right about the time I was trying to sort through the recent DM tussle, I also happened to be talking to Dassault about their new…

  • Assembling an SoC Architecture

    Planning an SoC has never been easy. As chip design has moved from mostly-from-scratch design to mostly-IP (even if internal), and as the size of…